Earlier this year NSW and Victoria agreed fish less than 55 centimetres and more than 75 centimetres must be returned to the water immediately, and two fish can be retained as the daily bag limit.

But the old regulations have been retained in the ACT, which has a minimum legal size of 60 centimetres and a daily bag limit of two fish, only one of which can be more than 100 centimetres.

If you're fishing for cod, anglers are encouraged to return to Lake Yerrabi, where dramatic numbers were lost earlier this year.

It"ll be interesting to see what proportion of the cod population remains. I'm pleased to report a lure angler, fishing from his kayak this week, landed two fish of 60 centimetres and 65 centimetres, and both were in perfect health.

The good news from Eucumbene and Jindabyne is that the rainbows are coming back.

The 2011 and 2012 stockings are considered to have failed and rainbows have been hard to find, but the 2013 stocking looks to have been successful and hordes of fish about 30 centimetres have been seen feeding each day.

The fish can be taken on fly and small cast and trolled lures, but bank bait fishing is being hampered by heavy algal growth in the shallows.

Some nice browns have also been taken. Fish about two kilograms have been taken by trollers using Tasmanian Devils and small minnow patterns, mostly in deep water. Fly fishers have caught a few, mostly on pheasant tail nymph and midge balls in the smaller bays. The midges can be seen balling up late in the afternoon.

Regional trout streams were affected by drought recently, but some have been revived by small storms throughout the region.

As the weather warms, redfin have formed into schools of major size in all the local waterways, as well as Googong and Burrinjuck. They are feeding on schools of small baitfish and can be caught easily on fly, bait or small lures. Larger fish are mostly out in deeper water.

Anglers are reminded there is no size or bag limit on redfin and, contrary to a popular myth, those caught in the ACT or NSW do not have to be killed. They can be kept for the table or returned to the water, but must not be relocated to another waterway.

Luke Credlin, Barry Blight and Shane Mamo had a great week on a houseboat on the Clyde River, catching a heap of bream, flathead, flounder and their first mulloway.

The eight mulloway landed were all more than the legal size of 70 centimetres and were taken on live yellowtail and, surprisingly, a cooked prawn. The bream, flathead and flounder were all taken during the day in relatively shallow water, but the mulloway were caught at night in deep water.

Some nice mulloway have also been taken in Tuross, but you have to put in the hours to find them.

Plumes and trickles of warm water coming down the south coast can be expected to pep up the offshore fish in coming weeks. A short-billed Pacific spearfish was caught just north of Batemans Bay recently and there have been a few yellowfin and albacore out wide.