Ocean flathead are back on the bite. A good place to start is 20 fathoms straight off the Tathra Hotel drifting with a paternoster rig. Good baits are pilchards and Australian salmon strips. To the south out of Merimbula there are morwong and snapper at Long Point and near Haycock Point. Good size flathead, some gummy shark are also on the chew off Middle Beach just north of Long Point. Try 25 fathoms. Micro jigs work well and also pilchard baits on a paternoster rig.

A friendly warning to our local board surfers as a tagged white pointer shark was detected by the Merimbula Shark Listening Station (yellow buoy) located just off Main Beach, on Saturday afternoon, October 23. Satellite-linked VR4G receivers record the presence of tagged sharks swimming within 500 metres of the listening station. The DPI tells us that "Information on the movement of tagged sharks captured on the VR4Gs goes straight to a satellite and is then instantly sent to mobile devices via Twitter and the SharkSmart App".

In the Pambula River dusky flathead, trevally and bream react to soft plastics in the shallows and beside structures. Australian salmon are also around, try off our beaches, from Tathra down to Aslings. Best near the top of the run-in tide early morning and evening.

There has been a good run of large squid lately, with some of them bearing hoods around 30cm in length. They are reported as shallow as 2m of water, right out to 40m in depth. Jig size / weight and colour don't seem to matter, as the squid are super aggressive at the moment. Merimbula wharf has been producing, with early morning starts fairing best.

There are Australian salmon, trevally, tailor, bream and dusky flathead in the Merimbula Lake channel as well as the Top Lake. Fish the edges where structures help gather the fish. Soft plastics and pilchards work well. Prawns are great for bream. Please only use bait shop bought prawns to stop spread of the white spot virus. In the Bega River some lovely bream have been reported up from Thompsons and there are some lovely dusky flathead at Mogareeka best taken with large swing bait lures.

Last Friday, the club held one of its annual Lakeview Trophy Board Presentations for members. To cater for the large number of winners these presentations were staged, with no more than 20 persons at a time, over a number of weeks. Congratulations are in order to Logan Walker who took out prizes for 14 separate species. Congratulations also to his young sister Maree Walker with prizes for six species. Also to Shelby Edwards with four.

The coming weekend, October 29-30, is the club's annual trip away for the Mex Williams Memorial Trophy competition. Members will be staying at Ingenia Holidays Ocean and Lake Caravan Perk at Wallaga Lake.

The clubhouse will be not be open on Friday October 29. All inquiries to Peter Haar 0417 021 066.