Squid are also starting to slow in the channel which means there should also be plenty of kings hanging around the Bridge. The prawn run will start again this week and run through to Christmas Day which will keep the bream on in the channel.  If you are scooping prawns in the channel, the run-out tide at night is when to go for them and a fishing licence is required. In the lake there’s still plenty of flathead about as demonstrated by Craig Walkcom (pictured). After a recent holiday, he was back to his best last week catching and releasing several fish around the 80cm mark proving not all the dusky’s have moved into the channel to spawn fishing has improved.  Offshore fishing has improved a lot with warmer waters helping no end.  A few good squire showing up on the dumping ground off Newcastle and the 40m mark off Wybung.  Sand flathead are really starting to fire on all sand and gravel areas, between 20 – 40m marks, up and down the coast and should continue through to the end of April 2018.

TEMPS: 20 degrees, Visibility: Good – around six metres, Moon: Dark, Current: Downhill