The Merimbula Snapper Classic starts on Friday at midnight and anglers can fish until noon on Sunday.
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A briefing will be held at the Spencer Park on Friday at 7.30pm where entries will be finalised.
Presentations for the event will be made about 1.30pm on Sunday at the clubhouse.
Entrants are expected from host club Merimbula Big Game and Lakes Angling Club (MBGA-LAC) as well as Tathra, Pambula, Eden and visiting anglers.
For more information contact event organiser Chris Young on 0417 114 275.
In regular fishing news, anglers using soft plastics and blades have returned catches of bream, tailor, trevally and dusky flathead from Merimbula Lake.
The Bega River and Pambula are fishing a little more slowly as the temperatures drop.
Good schools of whiting remain in the Merimbula channel and are best suited to squirt worms.
Patches of salmon have graced the wharf area at Merimbula and have excited visiting anglers using spinners.
Rough seas last week made salmon and tailor difficult to catch off the headlands and beaches, but they should be back on the bite by now.
A change in water temperature or the heavy swells has virtually shut down returns of ocean flathead and Chinamen leatherjackets remain a problem.
Some very large snapper and morwong are showing up on local reefs from Mowarry, North Head and Leonard’s Island out of Eden.
Dawn and dusk on the rising tide is preferred for snapper with soft plastics very effective.
For big game anglers, MBGALAC’s 23rd broadbill tournament will be run over two weekends starting on June 12.
For further details contact event organiser Robert Wood on 0413 333 598.
John McKay and Kris Larsen are scheduled to host at the Spencer Park Clubhouse on Friday from 6.30 pm, followed by the Snapper Classic briefing.
Members and guests are all invited so take along family and friends to catch up on all the latest.
Keep your rods bent