These fish can be unpredictable, causing anglers to change lures or how they are retrieved.

Because kingfish often feed underneath fish like tailor, mackerel or Australian salmon, it pays to let lures sink before retrieving them. Berley is also effective.

Out to sea, meanwhile, anglers are boating tasty blue-eye trevalla while bluefin tuna and schools of albacore are reported all down the east from St Helens.

Inland, Penstock Lagoon is still popular with fly-fishers. This final month, no doubt many will be hoping for good falls of the little black and red jassid leaf-hoppers which can draw up big trout - here, and elsewhere in the Central Highlands.

Jassids become active on gum trees, living under their bark, liking cider gums in particular.

Some migrate while others are blown away by winds which, if strong enough, can carry them onto waters without trees like the western lakes.

To match their size, jassid copies should be on hooks no bigger than size 14. Effective in the past have been floaters with red bodies, black backs and short black hackles.

Meanwhile, trollers on southern Great Lake continue to report pleasing catches from Swan Bay, while down on Four Springs Lake an angler spinning with hard-bodied lures recently boated four hefty brownies, each approaching two kilograms.