Luke from Leisure Coast Bait and Tackle at Corrimal said although the weather is cooling, the fish are still running red hot whether it be land-based or out of the boat, there's no excuse for not getting amongst them.
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Offshore there were a few marlin about last weekend, although not as many as we have seen over the past month, but they are still there with some big stripes and blacks hooked and tagged.
With the ambient weather starting to cool down, game fishos are rubbing their hands together for the tuna run and thus far, there has been plenty of them about.
Just getting them to eat is the tricky thing but there were quite a few caught over the weekend and some excellent sizes amongst them to with fish to 60-70 kilo mark taken on the troll off our local coastline.
Closer inshore, there were some good snapper caught over the weekend and the start of this week with plenty of fish to 3 kilos coming into from the more shallower reefs after the sea abated on Saturday.
There were some good reds on the deeper drifts, but the better fish came from the inshore marks and reports suggest that fresh slimy baits were the gun.
There were plenty of good hoodlums kingfish about last week but many reported finding live baits was very trying in certain spots which is often the case when there are plenty of predators about.
Fish to over the 1 metre mark were plentiful and devouring very big slow trolled slimies and squid with quite a few caught up to 15 kilos.
There has been plenty of fish taken off the rocks with rumors of a couple of northern bluefin tuna caught off the northern platforms from Coledale North which is something we don't see that often.
Beaches have also been fishing well with plenty of stud bream about as the water starts to cool as well as flathead, salmon and tailor and some monster whiting.
The mulloway whispers say there has been some good fish caught with a couple around the 15 kilo mark.
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Volunteer call for trout hatchery release
Final reminder to contact Alpine Angler at Cooma (02 6452 5538) if you are able to help with the release of 10,000 trout from the Gaden Trout Hatchery at Jindabyne.
It is planned that on April 27 volunteer boats will be loaded up at the Buckenderra arm for release across Lake Eucumbene.
Anzac delay
Kevin Callaghan, club president of Lakeview Hotel fishing club, wishes to advise members that as Anzac Day clashes with the scheduled comp day this Sunday, the April competition weekend has been put back until May 1-2. The Sunday weigh-in will be at 2pm with the Annual General Meeting to follow and members need to be financial to vote on any notices of motion.
Tough game
Members of Shellharbour Game were out and about last weekend and while some had success but others, the dreaded donut.
The sharks were there but were very hard to entice into taking a bait with Just Eat It going the closest but unfortunately losing a nice mako estimated around 100 kilos when it jumped and landed on the main line.
Some crews ventured quite wide of the shelf saw bait schools as far as the horizon and multiple schools of yellowfin tuna were hammering them, but the tuna just would not take a lure or bait.
On a thankfully much brighter note, congratulations must go to team Screaming Seamen as they tagged a nice striped marlin on Saturday.
Sunday saw Team Onsite getting a tag in a solid black and Team On Edge, scored with some very nice sized kingfish.
Tagged, released three years on
A samsonfish originally tagged south of Sydney has recently been recaptured.
Matt Ryan recaptured the fish near South Solitary Island, off Coffs Harbour, on February 27 and measured it at 95cm and an estimated 7.5 kilos.
Ryan re-released it with the original tag in place in the hope that it would be get recaptured again.
A quick search of the database revealed that the fish was originally released nearly three years earlier offshore of Shellharbour. Where it was tagged and released by angler Ian Osterloh, who measured the fish at 70cm and an estimated 4kg.
The samson spent 1014 days at liberty and was caught more than 290 nautical miles away from release location.
Interestingly, another samsonfish tagged on the same day by Ian and his crew was recaptured offshore of Wooli in northern NSW.
This recapture set the record for the furthest distance travelled by a samsonfish under the Game Fish Tagging Program and plays a vital role in understanding movements.
