A poor forecast made many change plans but a few late starters went out on Sunday morning and despite the rough conditions, they came in a few hours later with some quality snapper from jigging plastics on the more inshore reefs.

Snapper were located from the 30 metre depth line and beyond until conditions dictated a return back inshore, but apart from numbers of pan sized reddies, the deeper drops resulted on far better fish.

A few crews in bigger boats, toughed it out around the 60 metre mark and nailed a swag of reds to 2 kilo but also pulled a couple that went 5.5 kilos.

The flatty crews were harassed by the nuisance numbers of barracouta that have yet to move south and they were joined by seemingly thousands of leather jackets and between them, almost nipped every bait, sinker or swivel that went over the side.

Good sized kings were the weekend highlight including some stud sized fish near 10 kilos from Port islands, but even better kings caused havoc with land based guys down around Jervis Bay.

The northern flathead drifts were relative jacket and ‘couta free and were holding some quality flatties and required only short drifts.

Stanwell Park, Bulli and Port Beach held the better of the fish with most anglers not taking that long to fill their boxes and along with the flathead there were again plenty of tasty gummy sharks and some monster flounder.

The northern beaches again fished well last week and the long weekend with plenty of school mulloway about the 700mm size that mostly were tagged and released to expand the information being gathered by a DPI/Fisheries research program.

Dawn and dusk periods saw salmon and tailor about, and joining them were the humble bream and whiting as well as quite a few big sized flathead starting to move onto the sand flats off the beaches.