Narooma Sport and Gamefishing Club member Kosta Malomitis managed a couple of days fishing at Montague Island and the Tuross Head reefs with mixed results of snapper and lots of nannygai caught on micro-jigs.

Micro-jigging is lowering a small metal lure to the ocean bottom and slowly moving the lure to imitate an injured fish.

"Keeping the lure close to the bottom and repeatedly 'jigging' will tempt fish to react," club member Les Waldock said.

"Snapper are now the targeted species for this type of fishing, a recent method that is becoming popular," he said.

There have been reports of lots of bird activity at Montague Island suggesting large amounts of bait fish.

Reports of small bluefin tuna have slowed however, Kosta said there were fish bursting up, attacking the schools of bait around the east end of the island.

Narooma Sport and Gamefishing Club members, Chris and David Maidment had a great morning on Saturday targeting and bagging out some nice gummy sharks up to 1.5 metres in length and Kosta got a gummy off Kianga when he was fishing for flathead.

Les Waldock said Wagonga Inlet was harbouring thousands of pilchard and sardines in Forsters Bay with the pelagic fish not far away.

"I've personally caught salmon, tailor and barracouta when the schools have come close to the jetties around near Narooma Marina," Les said.

"It's fun fishing, small sliced lures are a must," he said.

Meanwhile the team at Tackle World Moruya were lamenting last week's rain just as the borders are opening and much needed guests are arriving saying the 'weather gods have decided we need a bit more of a challenge'.

The condition of the Moruya and Tuross Rivers systems is brown with fishers advised to fish down the front of the systems with the incoming tide offering cleaner water as ocean currents push into the systems. Oily baits are a better option at the moment.

As the river systems clear and warm, whiting, bream and flathead should be more plentiful.

There have been reports of good numbers of luderick and drummer being caught off the rocks along with a big school of salmon at Congo.

Bread burley with prawn bait will entice the fish into feeding mode.

Beach anglers are advised to look for beaches away from the Moruya and Tuross to find cleaner water options.

Ocean flathead remain on the bite for offshore anglers with good catches of snapper, flathead and morwong available.

Further down south, Chris Young of Merimbula Big Game & Lakes Angling Club (MBGLAC) said there had been a good run of large squid lately with some of them bearing hoods around 30cm in length.

They are being reported in two to 40 meters of water with jig size, weight and colour not seeming to matter as the squid are super aggressive at the moment. Most of the action has been at Merimbula wharf in the early morning.

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