The Aussies spent all game running around him.

What a special long weekend it turned out top be weather wise.

The sun shone and while the breeze that picked up a bit on Sunday arvo was a bit on the cool side, the fish seemed to enjoy the sunshine as much as anyone.

While there weren't record numbers of fish caught, most of those who took time to wet a line managed to catch themselves a feed.

It seems that there are still truckloads of squid around; with Rathmines Warren Dodds and brother-in-law George, catching enough calamari to feed 18 odd people (Wassas in-laws are Greek) on Saturday

Warren reckons that when he told his wife that he'd spent $26 on a squid jig, she went a bit ballistic, while now his father-in-law recons he's a legend.

Flathead are also there to be had, although according to Stew (really is) Hopping, they've gone into winter mode.

Go to one spot and catch one fish. Move on to the next spot and catch one fish, etc.

The crusty crew of the good ship Cruzin also managed to bag some calamari, as well as a couple of flathead and a couple of bream on Sunday morning, before shifting to the secret red spot and catching four squire around 450mm in length.

The fish where caught on both soft plastic baits and fresh squid, with the squid out fishing the plastics two to one.

Tailor are a very popular winter species and are also around in good numbers. In fact most winter mornings you'll see a procession of boats cruising around the lake, trowelling for these hard fighting fish.

Anecdotal evidence seems to suggest that the bigger tailor (3-4kg models) seem to be down in deeper water at present with smaller chopper tailor on the surface.

There are a couple of ways to get your lures down deep to where the big fish are.

You can buy yourself some lead core line which will sink do the desired depth, or you can slide a barrel sinker on your main line, in front of your leader.

Go and see Brenton or Sue at Get Reel fishing tackle, in the Morisset industrial estate for the lowdown on this and any other sort of fishing line and lures.

That's it. I'm off to buy a new beanie