WITH the fantastic weather for the school holidays and long weekend, local and visiting anglers have great opportunities across the beautiful Mid North Coast region.
In the Port Macquarie area, game fishing anglers have been targeting striped marlin with success. Hopefully we will be in for a bumper upcoming season on the inshore black marlin.
Snapper remain active but require more effort, with anchoring and burling proving effective.
Kingfish have been plentiful around Trag Rock and Crescent Head.
You could almost always guarantee a feed by fishing the flathead grounds in around fifty metres of water. In the Hastings River, fishing off the breakwalls is the pick of locations, producing some nice bream, with mullet strips proving to be the most effective bait.
Meanwhile, Settlement Point and Limeburners are yielding flathead, along with some terrific, hard-fighting trevally in the canals.
Moving south, Lake Cathie is currently thriving.
The abundance of prawns and bait is benefiting predatory fish, with flathead and whiting numbers now flourishing.
Further south in the Camden Haven area, a few stubborn drummer and luderick remain on offer off the rocks, with Crowdy and Diamond Head worth a look, using cunjevoi and prawns as bait.
Evenings around Perpendicular Point have also produced nice bream and the occasional tailor.
Beach fishing remains strong, especially at Grants Beach and Bonny Hills for bream and whiting.
Finally, mulloway activity seems to be more consistent, with good reports coming from Grants Beach at North Haven with most fish between legal size and ten kilos.
By Kate SHELTON
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