Early Saturday morning looks OK but Sunday is looking very average.

A southerly buster will blow in late Saturday with winds up to 25km and the mercury will barely push 14 degrees through Sunday.

Not pretty. In fact, a bit of a repeat of the cold snap that whipped across the region on Tuesday.

It will be short-lived however and it's still looking pretty good today and tomorrow.

Teralba Lakesiders Fishing Club stalwart Randall Tailor fished Lake Macquarie, down Toronto way, on Thursday and got nine tailor, a bream and half a dozen squid.

"It was a bit windy and I was looking for a jew, but I ended up with the tailor - a couple in the 40s. I got them trolling.

"I found the squid hard to come by but I'm expecting them to come good as the temperature goes up."

In good signs on that front, Randall fished last Thursday off the shore and got four flathead and a flounder in the shallows.

"The flatties were all good eating fish - 44cm to 53cm - and it shows the water's getting warmer and they're moving into the shallows."

Randall reckons September is a tricky time of year to fish.

"Me and my mates call it Sub-tember," he said.

"You'd think it would be a great month to fish, but we always find it a bit average although fish are out there.

"It's funny because autumn is a prime time, and you'd think September after August would be good but it doesn't always work that way."

Fish of the Week winner Craig Kerr, another gun Teralba Lakesider angler, reports Lake Macquarie has been fishing well, although the trick is to find your pocket.

"The southern end has been holding good squire, same as the Valentine tank traps," Craig said.

"The squid have been patchy. I tried last weekend in the wind and got 14.

"I know others have been getting them. But they've had to put in the time.

"Most guys I know are finding the tailor, sitting on them with big plastics and having a crack for jew."

As for the wind that's been about lately, Craig doesn't mind a bit.

"It helps when you're drifting," Craig said.

"Better to have some wind otherwise you just can't cover much ground."

Flathead have fired up in Nelson Bay this week, according to Darren Jansen at Tackle World Port Stephens.

"Yeah, flathead, bream, snapper on local reefs - Fingal, Little Island - sambos (salmon) on the beaches," Darren said.

"The Shortcut over on the Tea Gardens side of the bay has been fishing well for bream.

"No squid about but there's been some really good mulloway caught.

"Locals keep it pretty quiet but there's been fish up and over that metre mark.

"The full moon midweek was a deadset magnet."

Darren said the longtail have gone quiet over the last week or two but he's got high hopes we'll see some blue swimmer crab action in the not too distant future.

"They're just about due I reckon, although that recent rain didn't help.

"The bay has cleaned up pretty well since. Now the murk has nicked off, I reckon we'll be seeing some blue-ies, and I reckon the mud crabs won't be far behind them."

Robert Gauta, general manager at Newcastle Fishermans Co-Operative, reports the first show of school prawns showed up at Tacoma on the Central Coast this week.

"It's always good to see and augers well for the Hunter River which should come on well when it opens on November 1," he said.

"At the moment our co-op members have been hauling in some nice flathead and mullet, and I understand some swordfish and yellowfin tuna came ashore up at Nelson Bay recently courtesy of one of the long-liners.

"It's unfortunate locals can't get out wide just yet, but it's kind of reassuring to think the fish are out there."

Department of Primary Industries is discouraging people from interacting with friendly stingrays at local boatramps.

They advise that rays play a valuable role in cleaning up fish scraps at many boat ramp and cleaning table areas.

DPI would prefer if people don't directly target, disturbt or interact with them.

Steve Irwin would probably agree.

DPI is offering a custom Halco RMG Scorpion lure to anglers who donate mulloway frames as part of the NSW Research Angler Program (RAP).

If you're in the habit of targeting this popular recreational species, and you happen to keep a legal-size mulloway of 70cm and above, DPI would like you to drop the frame off and receive a lure.

Resarchers will use them to extract age data from the fish's otoliths (ear bones).

It's a reall win-win: you get a good feed of fresh fish, contribute to the citizen science program and score a great lure.

To find your nearest drop-off locations visit https://bit.ly/2PGLM86.