Stories & Reports
What the water's been doing
Dusky flathead: the water matches the logo again
Newcastle's sea temp hit 20.3°C this morning, back in the dusky flathead band. Lake Mac got there first. From the bloke who put a flattie on every page.
October on the water: it went backwards
October's sea peaked on the 13th and finished colder than it started. Squid ran the lake, and the best day missed golden by one morning, not one point.
September on the water: new scales
August had eight golden days, September had none. The sea got warmer. The site changed how it reads the water four times in six days. Guess which one did it.
The map does the whole week now
The map only ever showed one hour out of 168. There's a slider under it now: drag it and all 32 spots recolour through the week ahead.
August on the water: too much green
July looked too green to me, so I raised the bar. August came back with eight golden days instead of twenty-five. Then a reader sent me a photo of his phone.
July on the water: what the data showed
The first three weeks of logged water off Newcastle: sea temp slid from 19.0 to 18.6, the wind never got above 11 knots, and 11 of 21 days threw a golden read.
A Golden Day at Swansea Channel: What actually lined up
Swansea Channel Training Walls recorded a golden day yesterday for luderick. Here's what the tide, wind and swell numbers actually showed, and what's next.
The people filming our water
A fortnight watching the fishos who film Newcastle and Lake Macquarie. They do the how. The site does the when. Who they are, and who I missed.
Nah. Too windy.
Every fisho says the same thing about a windy day. My scoring disagreed with all of them, and it was wrong. What that did to the golden-day alerts.
Croudace Bay went golden on Sunday, here's what lined up
A golden-day read fired at Croudace Bay on 12 July, Yellowfin Bream on the western drop-off. Here's what conditions looked like and what we're watching next.