A ROCK fisherman is missing on Sunday off the notorious southern Lake Macquarie rock shelves which has already claimed 13 lives in less than five years.
Friends have told police the 22-year-old slipped and fell into the water at Snapper Point, in the Munmorah State Recreation Area, just before 7am on Sunday.
His friends threw life rings towards the man but to no avail, police said.
The man, who was not believed to be wearing a lifejacket, soon disappeared.
Lifeguards were joined by the Hunter Westpac rescue helicopter service, marine rescue, water police and Tuggerah Lakes police in the search for the man.
It comes only a week after a Sydney woman was washed off the same rocks while her friend was fishing.
There have been at least 13 deaths after people were washed off rocks at several notorious locations along a three kilometre stretch from Flat Rock, south of Catherine Hill Bay, to Wybung Head.
The search for the latest lost fisherman continues.
