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Mowong are good eating. Once the mackerel turn up you know it's game on for fishing offshore. I noticed water temp up to 18c. It may be worth a go out further at the rocks in 46 MTRS. I know of one good bag of snapper today. Not sure where they were. I am guessing down the tower area as they had a c...

I went south side of Flanagan at daylight this morning. Just one 40cm KGW. No other bites. I don't think they are coming to visit this year. 6 Flatties and 2 large pinkies offshore on Sunday. Looks like it is going to be an offshore summer. Few prawns around in the lake so they are worth a go. Water...

Mostly I use my sounder to look for bottom type , snapper fishing ,or weed when whiting fishing. I also use bathymetric charts for looking for steep banks and channels.. I can guarantee you can catch fish when nothing is showing on the sounder. Snapper will hide in between rocks , whiting hide in th...

Quick run up to the Bluff at daylight. Lots of small flathead outside the rocks. A few pinkies. Moved to the eastern end of the rocks with some very light flathead gear. Down went the rod bent double and line spooling. I thought yeah here we go big wrasse. I was pleasantly surprised to get a nice 38...

Fished from the pines to the tower today. Slow going, lots of gurnard. Manage 5 flathead and a gummy for the day. Best area seemed to be off the Grange in 12-13 MTRS. The gummy took a bait on my flathead rod with 15 lb mono . It was a challenge but got it into the net after about 5 minutes. Nice 1mt...

Another 5 this morning,before the wind came up.

I fished south of Flanagan island this morning. Started at daylight. No bites. Moved a bit further west and a bit deeper. 2.2 MTRS. Final got a good bite. Hooked up and landed my first KGW for the season. 40 cm a good fish. Soon had another. Took a cpl of hour of persistence but managed 6 in the Esk...

Tried along the beach west of lakes over the last 2 days. First day tried from the pines to about 7 miles down. Caught about 1000 gurnard. No flatties or gummies. Had a crack at some salmon on the way across the bar. Managed 12 in quick time just on the east side of the entrance wall. Headed out tod...

Once you see the ocean water running in at high tide then they seem to come back on. So should be worth another go about now. Usually the whiting don't get going till water temp is 15c or better. Not quite there yet.
I will give them a go next week.

Had another go today for donuts. I can confirm that a few have been caught mostly south side of Flanagan island. Very patchy and inconsistent.