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OFFSHORE: It was a great lead-up to Christmas with light to moderate northerlies and little or no swell. The really good news, however, was that the pelagics were almost out of control earlier in the week with frantic boils of furiously feeding bonito, mackerel tuna, spotties and Spaniards hitting on anything that moved in the water just out from the river mouth, around Little Hall's Reef and, along with school cobia, out around Jew Shoal. After a blustery weekend which saw most boats stay at home, the Spaniards and spotties were again on the bite in numbers today at Jew Shoal in Laguna Bay and around at Sunshine Reef where the odd catch and release black marlin (to 50kg) added a bit of excitement at times.

Further out at The Coffees and North Reef there were the usual mixed reefies such as Maori cod, teraglin jewfish, moses perch, scarlet sea perch and venus tusk fish, plus the odd snapper and a few mahi-mahi just to make life interesting. Shun Webb from Gympie (above) was out there on Tuesday on a 3/4 day Cougar One charter when his pilchard floater attracted a 6kg dolphin fish. And on the same charter, Max Friedlander (below) was happy to pose with this 6kg snapper.

'The Banks' and 'The Hards' produced gold spot wrasse, snapper, pearl perch, venus tusk, moses perch and rosy jobfish.