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Moruya river. Once again, Friday has go en away from me with stock and customers to be sorted. Let’s do the report. With last weeks spike in ocean temperatures, 18deg to now 23deg on the beaches, the river is kicking into overdrive. Flathead have well and truly increased their feeding ac vity in the river as have the trevally and bream. I am star ng to hear reports of a few whi ng also star ng to be taken in the river. Looks to the flats areas with ac ve nipper beds to try for a whi ng or two. Live nippers are a gun bait, as is throwing surface style lures. Under the town bridge estuary perch, bream, flathead and the odd whi ng have all been seen and taken from the bridge itself, or the banks on either side. Up in front of the hospital, the holes up there are providing anglers with both a shady protected spot to fish, and a few fish for the table. Baits of live nippers, prawn and mullet fillet will tempts the resident bream, trevally and flathead that live amongst the boulders here. Tuross River. This system is on fire at the moment, the flathead con nues to wears the kings crown of this system at the moment, with good fish reported from the mouth all the way up past Bumbo creek and into Bumbo lake. The potato point side of Tuross has a very healthy flats system, and has seen many good flathead, bream and some very nice whi ng over the last week. It’s amazing what a few degrees of water temp will do for the fishing!! The extensive system of oyster racks that Tuross is famous for have been producing some very nice bream for the lure guys. Hardbody lures and so plas cs are both accoun ng for some great fish. Don’t neglect a cicada style surface bait, as bream will most definitely take an easy feed of surface cicada. Further upstream in the fresh, the bass crews are doing very nicely on surface lures late in the a ernoon and early evening. Any popper or cicada imita on will do the trick. We are moving into another new moon phase, and reports from Coila are that the prawns are bigger than last month, and are star ng to run again. Rock and beach. Salmon con nue to make up the bulk of the beach and breakwall captures this week, but with warming water temps, the bream and whi ng are star ng to show themselves. A bit late, but be er late than never. There have been drummer from the rocks also, so there are plenty of op ons for the beach brigade this weekend. Offshore. Snapper and flathead have all been plen ful this week, start looking in 15m of water for the flathead, then move into 30-40m of water for the snapper. With the temps on the increase, expect the snapper to start moving into the 50m range or deeper once we get closer to 24deg. There has been a start to the gamefish season with a run of Marlin being taken out wide of Batemans bay this week. Game crews will already be ge ng themselves prepped for the summer season. It great to see lots of happy families s ll coming through the store, all though trade is star ng to level out, there are s ll plenty people around. Our range of kings product is into its third restock since dropping in store, and it con nues to sell well. If you are looking some something to make your camping and 4wding adventures more comfortable, we have you covered. Stay safe everyone and remember, “every days a good day for fishing…” Team Tackle World Moruya.

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South Coast Property Specialists (Carlene Franzen) Tips #1129: 2023 - What are we likely to See?

With 2022 now done and dusted we are all looking ahead to see what 2023 may have in store. It is a pity that crystal balls don’t work but we can still have an educated guess.

The key item that everyone will be looking at will be the dreaded interest rates. As we reported last year, the RBA steadily increased interest rates every month for the last 8 months. Fortunately, they don’t meet in January, but most analysts are expecting another increase at their first meeting in February. Quite a lot of mortgage holders will also be coming off their fixed rate loan periods and they will be the ones most affected by these increases as they have been insulated from them to-date. News reports indicated there is a mass scramble amongst lending institutions to offer these people new loan arrangements to help them with the transition.

It is reported that many owners are expecting a house market rebound during the latter part of 2023, but analysts are warning that this expectation may be too optimistic, and it will certainly be dictated by interest rates. Westpac senior economist Matthew Hassan said he did not expect prices to rebound until 2024, when he forecasts a 2 per cent rise off the back of rate cuts. “The third phase is the recovery phase and that typically only happens once you have a clear signal that the next move in interest rates is down,”

2023 will also be a year for a state election and we are already seeing movements on this by the two key political parties. The key election issues (relating to property) are the availability of rental properties and housing affordability. Both parties have policies that relate to “build-to-rent” schemes with Labor leader Chris Minns visiting the South Coast and announcing a $30m pilot scheme where unused public land is developed primarily for rental accommodation. If Labor wins the election and if the scheme is successful it would be rolled out to other regional areas in NSW before being rolled out into Sydney areas. Labor has also announced its own stamp duty reforms in response to the Liberal government’s current stamp duty program that we reported on during 2022.

Locally, it will be business as usual for South Coast Property Specialists. We certainly haven’t seen the huge drops that are being reported in Sydney and Melbourne and interest is still strong on properties that are priced in-line with buyer expectations. Unlike previous declines, the buyers are still out there, and enquiries continue to roll in.