He spent his holidays paddling around Salamander Bay and was rewarded with this cracker 68cm flathead.

The kayaks aren't restricted to the port and they are becoming far more common around the outside washes and reefs. I'll stick with "Stinkpot".

The "Crabometer" is currently on 1 and dropping. My last report was 15 witches hats in the water for 2 miserable crabs. It can only improve.

Elsewhere throughout the Port, as reported by Duffy, the action is furious with flathead, whiting, flounder, kingfish, mulloway, small cobia and bream battling for space.

The beaches are firing with thumping whiting, bream and tailor cruising through the Fingal Spit. Mulloway are moving along Stockton from the huts to the Sygna.

Rockhoppers are busier than one armed fiddlers with cracker kingfish swimming around Sunny Corner, greeneyed squid in Boulder Bay, luderick working the washes off One Mile Headland and Cemetery Point. Broad shouldered bream are also muscling their way through the surge at Rocky Point and Cemetery.

Outside the headlands the fishing is awesome as sandflathead pile up over the wide expanses of sand, in around 40 meters of water. From One Mile to north of Broughton. Bobby "Boulder Bay" Hodder tells me the sandflathead are like small crocodiles. Mulloway over the Tank, V reef, Buladelah Wide and Looking Glass. Kingies in Coal Shaft, over Esmeralda Bombie and out infront of the Outer light at Fingal. Teraglin are going nuts over the Gibber and pearl perch are working the edges of the 21 reef. There are a stack of marlin and dolphin fish gathering out wide for those with strong backs.

Don't miss Stinker's Fishing Clinic on Wednesday evening February 17.

Book now as there are limited seats Tomaree Community College 4984 1011

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