Luke from Leisure Coast Tackle at Corrimal reported that the return of some spectacular weather last weekend had all boat ramps on the east coast at capacity and not only was the weather good the fishing was even better.
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There were plenty of cracking sized snapper about over the weekend with just about everybody getting amongst some awesome fish.
The deeper reefs, as usual at this time of year, produced the better fish with a stack of 2-3kg fish being caught on both plastics and baits.
The the soft plastics were seemingly outdoing the bait fishos with the ever popular nuclear chicken colour proving its worth again as did the squidgy wrigglers in white lightning.
There were reports of the odd barracouta about but nothing like the plagues we have seen over the past six months.
There’s still been plenty of tasty by-catch as well with an excellent run of big pigfish about on the deeper reefs.
The kingfish bite has been hotting up and getting better each week.
A couple of solid fish fell to down-rigged live squid around the Port Islands, mainly off Gap Island and Pig Island.
There are still plenty of rats about but once you can get your bait down deeper there are some impressive hoods lurking closer to the bottom.
Down off Jervis Bay there have been some brutes showing up around the block and middle ground up to the magic 20kg mark.
The flathead drifts still produced some nice sized lizards with the average size up on most drifts being around the 55cm mark.
There have even been some good reports of tiger flatties up and around Stanwell Park, as well as plenty of snapper sharks and some sizable flounder.
Beaches continued to fish well for the bread and butter species such as whiting, bream and flathead.
The whiting and bream are devouring live beach and squirt worms whilst the flatties are taking a liking to white bait pillies and strips of freshly caught mullet.
Lake reports say there have been some great catches of flathead and bream about on soft plastics whilst waiting for the crabs pots to soak and start working.
gazwade@bigpond.com