Browns on their annual spawning run have already started milling around the river mouths, with a few even venturing up waterways like the Eucumbene, Thredbo and Murrumbidgee.

If we get some rain, and it remains cold, further waves of migrating fish will pour into the streams over coming weeks.

In fact, the bleaker the weather, the better the spawn run fishing.

Glo-bugs, nymphs, deep diving minnows and even soft plastics are all effective on big breeding browns.

In the meantime, there are heaps of resident trout - rainbows and browns that spend their lives in the streams - on offer in the high country waterways.

They're still taking dry flies, even though it's late in the season. If you can snag a warm, sunny day you should encounter plenty of surface feeding fish. They're not always big, but they're great fun on light fly gear.

Coastal estuaries have cleared up after the floods and are fishing extremely well for a mix of species.

The lower reaches are alive with bream, trevally, salmon, tailor and a few flathead.

At Moruya, a handful of monster trevally have been hooked around the river mouth. These fish are more than 50cm and pull like freight trains. They're being caught on bait and soft plastics.

Salmon and tailor are riding the tide in and out of the rivers, lured by dense concentrations of whitebait and mullet.

Bonito, frigate mackerel and kingfish are patrolling the headlands, breakwalls and wharves in the far south and will respond to metal lures and live baits.