The best rig is a light line about six pounds and a very small, if any, ball sinker above a size 10 swivel.

When you have cast out your bait, leave bail open on reel, or undo drag till least amount of tension is felt.

Let the fish run before setting hook.

The good run of flathead continues, and deeper water still seems to be where most catches are being reported.

Lures are still accounting for a lot of the flathead. Most blade lures are working well, as with a range of soft plastic lures.

Brightly coloured lures are the most popular at the moment. Some places to start looking for flatties are between Dora Creek entrance and Shingle Splitters Point and right down through Bonnells Bay, off Mannering Park and Summerland Point and around the north marker at Pulbah Island.

Drift along these areas in at least two metres or more of water.

Tailor are still in the lake but mostly found down deep during the day.

Deep-diving hard-body lures that can reach down to at least five metres are doing the trick.

For a bit of fun on light gear, salmon are in Swansea Channel and on the flats in Salts Bay.

Small poppers like River2Sea bubble pop 35 and 45 in white-clear, Rover 50 in white, or small white or clear soft plastics up to 50 millimetres are working the best.

These fish can be a bit finicky to catch at times, but you can bet at some stage during the day (usually late arvos) they will respond well to the above-mentioned lures.

Congratulations to Joel Norman and Mick "The Hat Man" Pascoe for their win in the 'Bassin' Tournament at Glenbawn Dam, near Scone, on the weekend.

They had a great weekend fishing the trees with soft plastic lures and came in with the limit of four bass each session.

So if you're keen for a bass fish, the Glenbawn bass are biting.