It’s not all bad news though as solid rain is exactly what we need to get this system firing again.

The bream are responding well to the unsettled conditions with good catches coming from Salts Bay and bridge area and whiting starting to show up on the breakwall. Trumpeter whiting are also showing up in good numbers in the upper reaches of Port Stephens with good number around the Lemon Tree Passage and Karuah areas and bream are showing up from the co-op rocks through to the heads at Port Stephens.

Flathead are still being taken on soft plastics around the drop-off area indicating that they are beginning to move into the channel for the summer spawning season.

Salmon schools are beginning to vacate the channel with the schools starting to move up and down the ocean rocks and beaches with a reasonable school sitting off the rocks at Swansea Heads for the last week.

We are starting to see the water temperatures rise which will start to bring the beaches alive with whiting, bream, tailor in the coming weeks.

Temps: 18 degrees

Visibility: poor

Moon: waxing to full

Swell: moderate

Tides: high, early and late