Nor-westerly conditions are tipped to provide reasonably benign, if not cool, conditions Friday into Saturday, early Sunday, before another sou-westerly change sweeps through.

"The key as ever at this time of year is to be resilient and take the opportunities as they come," Jason "One For" Nunn, from Fishermans Warehouse said.

Teralba Lakesiders Fishing Club member Randal Mason has been one of those anglers taking his windows this week, and the result out of the lake has been very encouraging.

"I fished Wednesday and came away with one squire about 47cm, four good bream, a couple of decent tailor in the 40cm range and a small flathead - fishing down the the southern end of the lake," he said.

"It took a bit of effort but the fish were there.

"As long as you get out early enough you're a chance of getting a feed."

If you want squire, Randal suggests you try and find cockle beds and humps in the lake with your sounder.

"They'll always hang around where there's food," he said. "Find those cockle beds and you usually do good with bream and squire.

"Wrecks are good too. The jew seem to like the wrecks."

Randal reports a couple of mates went trolling with tail dancers on Wednesday and got tailor.

"Just watch for the birds, circle round them and you'll get tailor and you might even get what's targeting the tailor below, like jew," Randal confirmed.

"The squid have been hard this week, but there's still plenty of flathead about, mainly in the deeper water."

Randal reckons winter is a great time of year to fish.

"There's no congestion at the boat ramp for starters," he said.

"I was up at 4am the other morning and I was the only one there, unlike during summer when it can be a bit crowded.

"As long as you can get out of bed and leave a warm body behind and get out there before dawn, you'll get fish."

Jason agrees - hard yards, early starts and fishing into the evening are the key to winter fishing success.

"There's been some nice tailor and salmon along local beaches," he added.

"In the wake of last weekend's significant blow there should be snapper lurking on inshore reefs too.

"Weather permitting, it'll be definitely worth a shot, or even out wider into deeper water to places like Texas reef where you might get kingfish too.

"Unfortunately, the news hasn't been so encouraging on yellowfin."

The annual fishing closure on the hot water water outlet at Eraring Power Station is now in place.

Fishing is not permitted from 6pm until 6am within a 100m radius.

"It's to try and discourage over-fishing this time of year," Jason said.

"A lot of juvenile fish get drawn to the warmer water and are vulnerable to over-fishing

"It's in everyone's interests to fish sustainably.

"There are certain areas in Lake Macquarie that have real problems this time of year and public awareness is the key, along with fishing responsibly."

Teralba Lakesiders official season ended in June with a good weigh-in to wrap up the year and members are gearing up for their presentation night on July 3 at Teralba Bowling Club.

"We're planning quite a soiree for members, with lots of prizes and trophies," Randal said. "It's the one time of year we let our hair down and hopefully Covid doesn't interrupt. We didn't have one last year."

The presentation night will be a chance to celebrate the year and reflect on all the good work the club has done for members and the general public.

Particularly the completion of the new fish cleaning table facilities located next to the bowling club which are proving a genuine and much appreciated community asset.

"It's the best cleaning table in Lake Macquarie, I'll tell you now," Randal said.

"We had to demolish the old one, build a new one, do the concrete, plumbing and everything.

"In the near future we're planning to a few solar lights on so that will make it easier to clean fish when you come in at night."

The Port Stephens Oyster Reef Restoration project is now officially complete.

In total 7.5 hectares (an area roughly the size of 11 international soccer pitches) of new shellfish reef habitat has been constructed.

Four hectares were restored near the mouth of the Myall River and an additional 3.5 hectares near the mouth of the Karuah River.

DPI monitoring from stage 1 reveals they are well on their way to becoming solidified "biogenic structures" full of fish and other marine life and providing important ecological services.

After nine months, DPI estimated the reef had recruited over 50 million baby oysters naturally.

The areas provide new habitat for millions of snails and invertebrates, which in turn attract fish and DPI estimates over 400,000 litres of water is filtered per hour.

All this in turn is good news for local fishos.