Some nice fish hit the scales with a 7kg gummy shark, some nice duskies, a few sand flatties and some nice blackfish among the catches.

Now for the all important fishing report: In the river there are a few nice duskies at Ringlands with one member reporting the loss of the biggest one he has ever seen at the net.

The beaches seem very quiet with only one salmon being weighed in.

On the outside scene, it's nice to report that after a long time there are a few flathead starting to show up but they are only in the 80-90 ft line and not monsters.

But over the next few months the bigger fish should turn up.

At the Island, it is alive with snapper (not big fish) but the big problem is the mutton birds and they will be a problem for the next month as you can't get a bait down to the bottom.

On the NE side there is a big patch of mowies in the 180- 220 ft line and the fowl house has a good school of slimies on it.

No kingfish as yet but with the current pushing hard from the north, it's all about to happen - we hope!

Out wide it was very quiet with some fishing Tuross Canyons and others over the second drop off with not a fish to show but that’s fishing.

So the next comp will be on December 5-6 but before that it’s Christmas Party time, which will be held on November 29.

Names must be down this week on the list provided on the fishing club’s noticeboard ASAP as Santa needs to get a few presents for the kids and tickets are to be paid for by November 13 at the Bowlo office so the caterer can get numbers for oysters, prawns, ham, turkey etc - I cant wait!

On a sad note, we lost a member this week when Mick Morley passed away at the young age of 58 and our thoughts are with his family and friends.

The boys were doing a trip to Brogo on November 13-15 but as Brogo has no water, we’re off to Picnic Point so anybody going please catch up with Jack Babidge soon.

Congrats must go to Norm Budin (Dalmeny Fishing Club president) for being elected onto the board of directors, as it's good Dalmeny has a voice.

And speaking of congrats, it's a big thank you to the fishing club members and Narooma Men’s Bowling club members that helped in the working bee at the Bowlo last Thursday erecting the new seating and parking bollards at the barbecue.

Word has it the barbecue is due for an overhaul and that’s the next big thing in the pipeline to happen.

So with Christmas just seven weeks away, let’s hope the water gets here soon and tight lines to next month.

Oh and if anybody finds a sea anchor at the island, it belongs to Dennis Maggs. Teach you not to tie it to the boat but it's our secret Maggs the bus driver.

Fishfingers

Rob ’s fishing report – kingfish, baby prawns and whales

KINGFISH are still biting well at times at Mowarry Point near Eden and there is also some good bread and butter fishing back at the Wharf as well.

There is lots of blackfish and a few bream in the shallower sections of the wharf while the deeper end has been producing a few chopper sized tailor along with the occasional barracouta to 70 cm.

If you are specifically chasing bream in the estuaries Tuross is one good option, but bait seems to be the ticket as lure fishos are finding it a bit harder to get good numbers of bream.

Anglers using small strips of carp as big as your little finger have been catching good numbers of bream between 30 and 43 cm.

You’ll need a boat, but one good area to target has been the shallow nipper beds on any of the arms upstream of the Five Ways.

Spread your baits out and give each spot half an hour-if you don’t start getting a few try more spots until you do-it might take three of four moves to find a good area. Flatties have been responding to the same technique.

Anglers fishing jetties all along the south coast can expect the fishing for bream, flathead and various other species to pick up a gear if we get some warmer stable weather patterns to heat up the water.

Five million reasons to fish

The NSW Government has released 5 million fingerlings into the State’s waterways over the last 12 months.

I&I NSW are stocking native fish species as well as trout and Atlantic salmon, under the NSW stocking program and the Dollar for Dollar native fish stocking program. The spring stocking campaign will include New England trout streams, and Australian Bass stockings into impoundments like the Glenbawn dam in the Hunter.

An Environmental Impact Statement for freshwater fish stocking is prepared and a management strategy developed to ensure that stocking is carried out under world’s best practice. In addition to the freshwater fish, more than 30,000 juvenile eastern king prawns have been stocked in Wallagoot Lake on the NSW south coast.

A whale of a time

Anglers fishing offshore have at times had the pleasure of seeing some spectacular displays by Humpback Whales as they head south for the summer. Anglers wetting a line off the rocks have also seen a few mother humpbacks come in close to the shore line to show their calves the lay of the land.

Anglers in small boats and Kayaks could be excused for thinking they are in a remote part of Antarctica or Alaska when one of these big creatures pops up near by and puts on a show-it’s all right here on our doorstep!

See you on the water,

Rob Paxevanos

www.fishingaustralia. tv