Tuggerah is still tops by Jamie Robley

Over the years I've gone through all sorts of stages of fishing the Tuggerah system: Learning to catch blackfish in Budgewoi Channel, taking my first boat up Lake Munmorah to fish for big nocturnal bream around the shallow, rocky points and pumping nippers at The Entrance to fish for bream, blackfish and flathead.

Then came the interest in chucking small lures for bream up Wyong and Wallarah creeks and a very serious obsession with Budgewoi blackfish. It's all good, but what's even better is that catching a feed of fish from the lakes is still possible.

LAKE ANATOMY

The first step in consistently catching fish around the Tuggerah Lakes is understanding how the system works...