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Yes. My view is too many boats and jet skis at that time. Seems to put the fish right off.

Yeah, very true. Got this big 85cm croc last year (which went back to the lake) but now I'd rather not catch them at all.

Shouldn't have too much trouble at the moment. Last week I saw a guy catch a **45cm bream** from the bank.... with cooked prawns! I have never seen a bream like it - looked like a big ol dusky snapper! Wish I'd taken a photo.

Seems the flatties are on the chew now, not so a week ago. Got these two on Monday night and threw about five legal bream back. Last night decided to save the bream because I couldn't hook a flathead. But check the bream furthest from the tape, has scales missing. As I brought it to the yak, a MASSIVE flathead close to a metre followed it up and grabbed it! Two fish later, another one (maybe the same one) followed up a 33cm bream I had on. I was using live mullet but the big croc wouldn't touch em. I'm glad because I only had 5lb leader and didn't want a half hour battle.

Fairly quiet here at Burrill Lake near Ulladulla. The recent rains have discolored the water which seems to have put off the whiting and flathead. Not so the bream which are still active in most parts of the lake. Smallest here just over 25cm, taken on live mullet which the flatties usually can't resist. Some big swimmer crabs around. They take off with your line and when you pull back, your hook is gone!

Picked up a few bream early this morning. Still biting when I left. (Would like to attach pic here but there doesn't seem to be an image attachment button??)

Hi Pauls, I live on the lake. It's been fairly quiet. The odd good sized bream and a few flatties. Not a bad whiting you caught. Off the sandbar near the channel markers?

Hi Dave, fish harrassing poddies might have been tailor. A few being caught tho they're not busting up like they usually do. Got two nice flatties yesterday & two good sized bream using live poddy mullet. Will post more info later. Can't tell you a lot about the lake ramps as i don't use them. I fish out of a yak launched from my lakeside house.

Lake has been very quiet, have yet to hear from someone catching any numbers or anything of size. Hope it picks up. A lot of of mullet jumping, no tailor at all (there were heaps busting up 18 months ago). Not sure what's going on. I've managed a few just legal flatties and a reasonable bream or two. I live right on the lake.

Just about to hit the (windy) lake in the yak with plastics and a drift for whiting. Be happy to score what you did. Let you know!

We went out a few days ago with the same result, nothing of size to mention. Our highlight was a different kind of drone. A flying fish glided across out front about 5 metres above the water and stayed aloft for about 150 metres!! (Unlike us, it was obviously enjoying the wind!)

Wish they'd come down and patrol Burrill Lake right now!

Great job all round. And great to see another yak fisherman on the job.

Well done mate. Great to see kids encouraged into the healthy outdoors.

Believe it or not, my father was a professional fisherman at Lorne, Vic in the 1950s and couta were the main catch. His record: 42 boxes of fish in one day, sold at the co-op and Queen Vic market for.... food! (They obviously weren't fussy in those days). :-)

Good story, bad luck! Not a couta though, a pike I'm pretty sure. The southern couta I've caught are a different fish and dont have scales like that. Both are pretty ordinary eating IMO. Merry Xmas!

Is that number general for NSW or just for the Georges? I filmed on my mobile two jetskis completely out of control on Burrill Lake where I live.

Nice fish! Re hand towel, I was surf fishing last week and had my white hand towel hanging out of my pocket but must have dropped it on a cast out. 10 mins later i saw this white square going past in a wave and I thought, 'Wow, look at that, some idiot polluting this beautiful environment!'

Good job! And great to get out there with your kids - looks like they had fun.

Well done. Great report, love that underwater shot.

Yes, their main diet appears to weeds and algae. I collected some sea cabbage but they wouldn't touch it when I trolled it. Last night they were going crazy for winged termites falling into the water.

Mullet are leaping out of Burrill Lake, some of them quite big. But they are impossible to catch. So decided to try another strategy. I made some pencil floats out of thin dry bamboo, and about 2m leader to a small longshank hook. Bread squeezed onto hook and line towed very slowly behind my Hobie yak. I burleyed a bit with a packet of bread crumbs. Yep, that did the trick. They are terrific fun and fight like crazy. I kept three (the biggest 32cm though there are bigger ones in the lake). I filletted and skinned them, no bones, and smoked them. Turned out well! I think if they are fresh like that, they might be ok on the bbq hotplate as well.

Flattie looks beautiful underwater. Great pics. Yeah, I've fished the beach at Culburra to no avail. It LOOKS good, all a matter of timing I guess.

Good catch! I'm going to have to start targetting whiting with lures. What lures do you use and and what works in beach channels?

Wouldn't they go a bit solid when it sets?