FISHING
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DAVE Milne and Greg Barea fished the Shoalhaven River on Friday and bagged more than 40 flathead in a soft plastic session.
The Robbo Reelers duo had a great day and kept only seven fish, between them up to 52cm, and released all others which where mostly legal size .
The "flatties" were on the chew.
On two occasions a smaller sized flathead, which had been played back to the boat, got monstered and taken by a much larger fish of more than 80cm, only to spit out the smaller fish when next to the boat.
Plenty of flathead and some good sized jewfish, up to 12kg caught on soft plastics, were the main talk down at St Georges Basin through the week, with whiting and bream "taking poppers" in the shallow water.
Out on the inshore reefs, Luis Seisas fished around the Port Kembla islands for kingfish, but found the seals to be hungrier than the kingfish.
The seals stole his live baits as he slow trolled out the front of gap island.
Plan B came into effect as he went drifting over some of the reefs and sandy areas on the 25 metre line and picked up a few morwong and half a dozen good flathead up to 48cm for his day.
The beach fishing has started to pick up.
Some nice to jewfish, salmon and tailor have been caught around Wollongong and the southern beaches, particularly Seven Mile Beach near Gerringong.
Most fish have been taken from the deep gutters on pilchards and fresh squid baits.
Off Kiama, some nice reds up to 4kg came in, but most fish were around the 1.5kg mark along with some nice morwong up to 2kg.
Out wide on the game fishing scene, the water temperature has risen to 22.5 degrees, which encouraged a number of boats to have an early crack for a marlin on Saturday.
Even though the water looked good, the lures didn't get a sniff from any of the marlin species.
Travis Sullivan and crew had a shark session on the 100 fathom line of Jervis Bay.
After a few hours of burling, to their surprise, they raised a monster tiger shark which didn't hesitate to snaffle the whole salmon on offer as it swam around the boat.
After a five-and-a-half hour battle on 24kg line, the still very lively tiger, estimated to be around five metres in length and more than 500kg, won its freedom when it rolled up and broke the wire trace as they tried to gaff it.
- By Greg Barea