Fishing over the past week has sporadic with extreme weather conditions deterring anglers.
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Narooma Sport and Gamefishing Club member Les Waldock said the winds and big seas had restricted anglers to maybe two days fishing last week.
"Members David and Christine Maidment fished wide off Brou Beach for a variety of reef fish including snapper and pigfish.
"Brett Indian fished south of Montague Island for a bag of flathead while Glenn Wade and Steve Widdicombe trolled Wagonga Inlet for some great fishing of tailor and Australian salmon," Les said.
Forsters Bay, in Wagonga Inlet, continues to have an enormous amount of baitfish being harassed by an assortment of pelagic fish including salmon, tailor and barracouta.
Les is predicting that it is only be a matter of time before Mr Kingfish makes an appearance.
"Speaking of kingfish, an unconfirmed report of two 80cms fish were caught recently near Montague Island, so it's only a matter of time before schools appear," he said.
Bermi Bait and Tackle is reporting snapper fishing has been productive on the close reefs off Bermagui and also up around Montague Island.
The Bermagui River has some good trevally, tailor and bream, but the duskys are hard to find possibly due to the multitude of shovel nose sharks that are appearing in the river in numbers.
At Wallaga Lake bag out catches of dusky flathead are possible on the drift and there are some good bream at Wallaga Lake bridge.
Poor weather conditions down south has dampened game fishing with some larger bluefin tuna caught past Green Cape out of Eden.
Chris Young from Merimbula Big Game and Lakes Angling Club (MBGLAC) said there had been reports of yellowfin tuna north of Tathra that were encouraging and we are expecting them in local waters as the East Australian current strengthens southwards.
The team at Tackle World Moruya reports some nice snapper and flathead continuing to be caught with snapper in as little as 15m of water.
With no recent rain and a few warm days the rivers are clearing and the river flats are a good place to fish.
The Tackle World team recommend soft plastics with a bit of scent, or oil rich baits being the best options for finding flathead or bream.
Flathead are showing up in the Tuross River as is traditional at this time of the year.
Look to the front part of the system towards the shallow sand flats where the water is several degrees warmer than in the main channel at this time of the year.
You can also expect to see an increase in the numbers of bream now that they have finished their spawn run and are looking for a feed.
There has been some good news from the local lakes during the last week with prawns starting to show themselves.
Tackle World Moruya say it's time to dust off the prawning gear, as it looks like it's going to be a bumper crop this year.
There have been reports of salmon and tailor being a little hard to find from beaches over the last week although there has been a little action at Shelly Beach Moruya and Congo Beach.
