Dash at the Narooma Ocean Hut Compleat Angler reports a snapper bonanza off Narooma at the moment.
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Currently the most productive reefs are Tuross, Potato Point, Brou and Montague Island, with the early morning and late afternoon run being the most successful.
There are also acres of bait, which is receiving a lot of attention from whales, dolphins, and assorted sharks, so Dash assumes the possibility of tuna and kings joining in on the oceanic fiesta at some stage soon.
The desert drifters are having a lot of success on the lizards in assorted sizes, with the light N/Ne winds creating the most successful drift. Anywhere from 30m onwards seems to produce satisfying results, with the added bonus of a gummy shark still a chance.
On the local lakes, Dash says Wallaga Lake is improving as a few flathead starting to move in the main lake, along with a few bream returning from the creeks. Corunna Lake is running on all four cylinders for those using plastics.
Wagonga meanwhile almost has too much bait to lures are the best option.
Graham at Tackleworld Moruya reports his staffers have been out during the week on the Tuross system catching and releasing bream and flatties, not big numbers but enough to have a good outing.
Same deal as last week wait for the tide to start pushing in which turns the fish on. All fish were caught on a variety of deep diving hard bodied lures around the oyster leases and up river in the snags, he said.
On the rocks and beaches, the Moruya breakwall hasn't been doing much this week but that can change overnight but the beaches around the area are producing good numbers of bream, salmon and some whiting. All fish caught on beach worms.
Offshore, Graham reports the water temp has dropped slightly last week which slowed the flatties down a bit but the snapper, mowies and pigfish are still chewing out wider off Moruya out around the 50 to 70 metres of water.
Striped tuna and pillies are going to be the best baits for these fish, but micro jigs are a great new sporting way to catch a large variety of fish.
Scotty at Bermi Bait & Tackle over the weekend reported ‘Wildcard' landed a 27kg yellowfin east of Moruya.
Water was a bit cooler further out but there were plenty of striped tuna about out wide in what was a quieter day offshore.
They had a couple of customers lose a nice fish but other than that the inshore reef fishing was productive for most in 50-52m off the Brothers, 60m due east of Cuttagee Bridge and 75m east off Goalen Head.
Some big tiger flathead about also in the deep in 140m along the edge.
There were a few mako caught and those that went out early got some nice snappers, some good gummies taken by a few boats fishing off the Tilba cemetery also.
We had a late report last week from the Narooma Sport and Game Fishing Club about president and grandad Les Waldock taking his grandson and club junior Reid McNamara out snapper fishing on the lake.
Due to the weather being a bit unreliable, the kids fished off the club’s back deck, again the junior members Aliesha McPherson and Benjamin De Bear outdid the adults with a nice bream each.
As usual the Narooma Sport and Game Fishing Club rooms are open for drinks and snacks from 4pm till 9pm every Friday.