Julie/Graeme, Anglers Warehouse Tweed Heads (07) 5536 3822
anglerswarehouse@shopsafe.com.au
Wayne, Kingscliff Bait and Tackle
Matthew/Charlie, Deep Sea Fishing Charters

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Offshore: Plenty of good size snapper around the local reefs. Jewfish around the Plonk Hole and Wooyung.
Rock and beach: Big tailor can be found around the North Wall, South Wall and all local beaches. Good-sized bream around the river mouth and beach gutters.
Estuary: Big bream and flathead can be found around the co-op walls and around the Spur Wall. Bream around the highway bridge.
School jewfish and flathead up-river towards Mullumbimby.

Joe
BP Discount Fishing Tackle Brunswick Heads (02) 66851268
brunswick-fishing@netspace.net.au

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Starting to get tailor and a few school jew from the beaches and headlands. Tallow Beach and Broken Head the best. Still getting a lot of big whiting from the beaches, which is unusual at this time of year. A few odd flathead in the bay. No outside reports.

David Keevers, Coastal Fishing Tackle (02) 6685 7133

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Mandy at Daves says some nice snowy bream off the beaches with a few good tailor and choppers, too. Jewfish from the walls on bait and lures and also behind the RSL Club. The odd bream showing through the river and still the occasional good flathead. Outside has a few snapper and pearlies when you can get out.
A similar situation at Evans Head with some nice bream up the beach and around the headland with a few along the walls and in the river as well. The odd school of nice tailor pushing through and hanging around when the bait does. Snapper picking up a little offshore with a smattering of jewies and still the odd catch of spotties.

Dave’s Bait Shop (02) 6686 2481
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Tony Zann

t.zann@fishingmonthly.com.au

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Plenty of bream from the river mouth all the way to Maclean and well beyond. Good numbers of flathead including plenty of big ones on slack water around Maclean. A few blackfish showing with fish over a kilo starting to turn up.
A mile of tailor, mostly choppers from the southern side but bigger fish to 5kg from Woody Head and The Bluff. Good blackfish from the ocean rocks at Woody and The Bluff. Spanish mackerel were working off Sandon River with a few snapper and pearl perch but inconsistent weather hasn’t helped offshore fishing.
Plenty of flathead from the beaches at Woody Head and Brooms Head.

Paul Kneller
Big River Bait and Tackle, Maclean (02) 6645 1834

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The sea has all settled back and the mackerel are still here with Budagen and Macauleys Wide expected to fire this weekend. Snapper and some very big samson on the reefs as well.
The ocean rocks are turning up good tailor and big bream. Beach gutters adjacent to the estuaries still fishing well for whiting, bream and dart. Tailor at first light and dusk in the gutters.
The lower estuaries also enjoying a healthy serve of bream, plenty of whiting and the odd flathead.

Peter Russell, Fish Tackle Australia 6652 4611
motackle@midcoast.com.au

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Mark and Denise Bird and Paul and Michelle Martin
Rocks Marine Bait and Tackle 6566 6726
rocksmarine@dodo.com.au

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Off the beaches bream numbers are excellent and should continue to remain so for the next few weeks. The biggest challenge has been the consistent southerly swells, strong current and big tides which have made conditions difficult more days than not. For those who managed to locate water, there are plenty of bream well over a kilo on offer. With great tides this weekend, the action should be excellent as long as the weather allows the sea to settle. Fresh mullets strips or pipis will achieve the better results. Tailor are certainly there, although in the main kept just wide of casting distance by the conditions. Great tides this weekend for those keen on chasing mulloway, with some encouraging catches from most beaches before the seas rose. A few salmon have also begun to show up although the larger schools have yet to reach this coast.
Off the rocks, bream catches are excellent, with Point Plommer, Hat Head and around Lighthouse fishing well. Tailor numbers have been quite good and a few better quality specimens have been landed, particularly from areas north. Drummer on the improve. Time to dust off the Alvey and double-strength hooks and stock up with plenty of abalone gut for the next few months.
In the river, this weekend should see peak conditions in the lower estuaries for those keen to chase bream at night. With the ideal combination of no moon and a high tide just after dark, now is a great time to rug up and head out for an evening session. Bream at this time of year simply love that delightful substance mullet gut. Whilst not perhaps the most pleasant bait to use, when rigged on a chemically sharpened 1/0 suicide hook with a small running ball sinker, this is close to irresistible and provides for an excellent hook-up rate. Yabbies, chicken gut or mullet strips will also achieve excellent results. Blackfish numbers are on the improve, with numerous good catches reported from the south wall and Limeburners. The action has been more consistent than last year. A few good flathead have been taken around the coal wall and Pelican Island.
Little to report from offshore, with conditions on most days making an outside trip foolish or most uncomfortable at best. Look for some good action from the closer reefs once the swells abate and the bar is a viable proposition

Jason and Virginia Isaac, Ned Kelly’s Bait and Tackle 6583 8318
jasned@ozemail.com.au

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Offshore: Sea conditions are on the improve and we will see lots of craft heading outside over the next few days. No reports have come from out wide although it's the time to chase yellowfin and for those that don't mind a bit of winding, a drop on the bar cod. In close there have been lots of reports of snapper, trag and pearl perch. Local pros are still jigging bonito. Big kingfish are on offer at Seal Rocks.
Beaches: Great tides over the coming weekend should see the beaches fish well. Lots of bream and tailor are being reported as are some quality whiting if you take the time to pull some worms. As has been the case in recent times, the beaches to the south of town seem to be performing best.
Rocks: Expect more snapper off the rocks at Seals with all rock platforms likely to fish well as the sea abates. Lots of reports of schools of blackfish and bream moving along the coast.
Estuary: Several mulloway have been taken from the Forster breakwall in recent days. The last few hours of the run out tide are best. Mixed reports on bream throughout the system, but those with imagination who don't fish the same spot every day are doing OK. The by-catch of flathead by those using lures for bream is higher than usual in part because the water is still relatively warm. Blackfish action in the lake is slow – a bit like those that chase this species.

Lloyd Campbell, Great Lakes Tackle 02 6554 9541

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Pretty crappy weather but have a gander at last week’s archived report and you should have an idea of what’s going on.

Graham Duffy, Salamander Bait and Tackle 02 4982 0711

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Peter Sanderson, Fisherman's Warehouse (02) 4945 8922
enquiries@fishermanswarehouse.com.au

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Pretty slow this week, all the charter boats have reported is trevally and morwong with a few snapper and the very odd king. Estuaries all very quiet apart from the odd estuary perch.
Salmon and tailor showing up on the beaches with the odd jew in the hole off Wamberal Lagoon on live mullet. Rock ledges firing up for drummer on big prawns and ab gut with salmon off the rocks at Terrigal. Blackfish also going well. Good bass at Lake St Clair among the weed beds and Glenbawn is also going quite well.

Aaron / Joel
Freddys Fishing World (02) 4367 5555
Shop 1/ 229 The Entrance Rd Erina

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Fishing in the past week hasn’t been too much to write home about, with monster swell and no shortage of blow. Getting offshore has been almost impossible and even the closed waters of the Harbour and Pittwater weren’t much fun. There was so much swell through Sydney Heads on Saturday night that you could have held a surfing contest at Dobroyd Reef. But do you think any of that stopped fishos from fishing? Hardly. Even the freezing waters and lack of Kingies couldn’t put them off
The Harbour has not been an angling paradise for the last few weeks, but as we slowly move into full winter conditions things are improving. Des Toms from Hook’em Cook’em Fishing Charters made it out a few times last week, finding sheltered areas with some big fish to keep his customers happy. Recent weeks have already seen good numbers of john dory but they just seem to be getting bigger and bigger. Des hooked three last Saturday, two of which were up there with his biggest ever, while drifting with live yakkas inside Quarantine Point. There are a couple of big slimies and schools cownyoung rippling on the surface inside the Heads but there seem to be no predators on them bar the odd tailor. A couple of tailor are about the Harbour, mostly around Middle Head, but they are deep at the moment and being hooked on live baits meant for other fish. If you are interested in more information about how to fish the Harbour you can meet and chat to Des at Fish Outta Water on Thursday, June 9, as we start our annual Fish ’n Tips nights each Thursday for eight weeks, with a different guest speaker each week. Be sure to ring and claim your place!
The one thing that you can save yourself the hassle of at the moment is an all night jewy session. After several customers have tried their luck lately with serious hours and effort, the score is still zero.
Pittwater has just hit the cold water this week and the fish seem to be in anaphylactic shock. The kingfish that have kept me in a mental state close to sanity all summer have slowed right down. They will still hit a well-presented live squid with vigor but are far less interested in yakkas or fresh baits than they were earlier in the season. If you can’t get any live squid it may be worth rethinking your options. Thankfully the bonito that moved in to The Basin last week are still mixing it up, busting up on the surface morning and evening, often joined by schools of nearby tailor. Small metal slices should get you in on some action there. Bream flickers will be some of the happier Pitty anglers this week, as they are the predominant fish presently and there is real size, including one taken on a 3” watermelon Bass Minnow that went 47cm. Berley is a bit of a cheat but, hey, it brings the fish to you rather than you searching out the fish. Bread is a ripper. Pete Le Blang of Harbour and Estuary Charters has been getting into these bream among other fish lately, but his best moment this week was an encounter with a sea turtle, happily swimming alongside two fairy penguins off the Royal Motor Yacht Club at Avalon!
If there is one place that doesn’t suffer huge reductions in catchable fish over the winter, it is the beaches. Tales of 3-4kg pigs have been surfacing all week, from rock washes at Queenscliff and Curl Curl to Long Reef and further, mostly taken on ab gut. A few tailor are also on the prowl around the rocks, smashing a variety of lures and live baits. But the real news is the schools of salmon moving up and down the coast off Sydney. One school seen off the mouth of Broken Bay this week was estimated to be as large as four football fields, and many smaller schools are working. Curly rocks have seen a couple of these in the area, as has Bluefish Point. Hopefully there is more to come!

Darren Thomas
Fish Outta Water 9949 9488
fishon@uunet.com.au

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Mitch, Mac's Bait Bar
428 Princes Hwy Blakehurst
ph 02 9546 1341, mobile 0411 661 911.

Lake: Good blackfish under the bridge on weed, good bream at Mt Warrigal on red softies and at Macquarie Rivulet with peeled prawns near the road bridge.
Beaches: Salmon and tailor off Coniston, South Shellharbour for bream on mullet fillets. Good bream off Corrimal as well.
Rocks: Trevally off Port Kembla with some drummer. Plenty of groper off Windang Island on red crabs and some good ones off Bass Point along with bream. Kings to 3kg off the southern side of Bass Point. Bice bream and trevally at the Boneyard off Bombo.
Offshore: Good snapper around the islands in close and around Shellharbour but a lot of jackets to get through. No game reports.

Garth, Deans Bait and Tackle, Windang 4295 1615

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Clyde has quietened off apart from a few small school jew. Tuross rivers and backwaters fishing well for bream and flatties, even a few good tailor.
Rocks, beaches: Lots of salmon with some big bream and the odd snapper from the rocks and a few reds to 6kg from the beaches as well. Drummer to 3kg going well.
Offshore: A few squire in close, the kingies on and off.

Rodney Stockman,
Harry’s Bait and Tackle
ph 02 4472 4393, fax 02 4472 3405

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Offshore: Weather a bit off all week with plenty of swell. Still a few yellowfin turning up with 4-6kg rats and a sprinkling of 60kg+ tuggers. Most taken on the troll with hours of cubing required for success. Water has dropped a little to 18°. Pretty quiet around the island for kings but snapper and mowies on the bottom and flatties in close.
Beaches fishing OK for salmon and a few tailor. Really nice pigs off the rocks.
The inlet has some nice bream with the odd jewie to around 8kg. Same for Tuross.

Darryl, The Ocean Hut (02) 4476 2278

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Darren Redman and Mark Rose,
Bermagui Ocean Hut and Charter Booking Service, (02) 6493 4688

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