Mulloway fishermen in the deep water around Middle Island are doing battle with kingies up to 15kg.

Anyone who has caught both mulloway and kingfish will tell you that the kingies are the champions and can pull like a mad dentist.

If you hook one, hang on and hope.

Duff tells me that the port is boiling with summer fish - dusky flathead, bream, mulloway, whiting, flounder and squid. You can add kingfish, trevally, blue swimmer crabs and mud crabs.

The Christmas holidays will be a fishing bonanza.

Off shore, kingfish are moving over the shallow reefs from Fishermans Bay to Fingal and north to Broughton.

Snapper champion Peter Bless knows where all the big reddies live returning from a recent trip to Broughton with a box of thumpers up to 7kg.

Still no decision by NSW Fisheries on the future of witches hats in Port Stephens and their impact on the green turtle population.

Local tackle shops are aware that Fisheries will be making an announcement soon on witches hats and dilly pots but, like me, have no idea when.

We remain confused.

-Stinker