Hi Colin,We were on a reef out from scabs today,lots of small sambos and large snook,not much else,had it on my mind about salmon,I hope we have a good year!

I am sure there will some big schools showiong up around Rotto in a month or so.

yer lets hope the salmon come in in massive schools and in close to.

cheers danno

Heading down tomorrow to my spot between Walpole & Margs (doesn't give too much away). I was there last weekend with huge Salmon hanging around so hopefully the same again.

Weather won't be as good but heaps of options.

Will keep you all posted with how it all goes.

Higgo

personaly getting a lil impatient waiting for them...... pretty sad but look forward to the run every year :D

Now my lil girls a bit older im hoping she will hook her first this year

Higgo I hope that spot your talking about is out of your boat, cause that report you gave sure got my mouth watering if its landbased!

Found a popper floating on the water with some line hanging off it yesterday while jetskiing with mates at kwinana bch yesterday :) will hopefully be putting it to good use pretty soon :D

How do you go about catching salmon ive never tried but might give it a go this year some time...

if you have caught tailor, use the same rigs baits and techniques, if not mullies or WA pilchards on 3/0 gangs either wieghted or unwieghted, depending on conditions, they've been caught on surf poppers,, silver slices and hard bodey lures as well. look for the gutters and cast to the side of them, also you will most likely see them surfing the waves, awesome fun good luck

Caught one this morning on the penguin island sandbar while fishing fir whiting. Came in at about 200g and about 15cms haha. I bet this report will get mouths watering

saw a cple of schools out wide of the cape the other day,

hooked and lost one last night at nanarup! spewing!

Haven't caught a salmon from albanyfor years!

just wondering...what lb line would be good for salmon? im planning on using 20lb mono..would this be good or too weak?

I'm a bit ignorant and hoping to get into the salmon for the first time this season. I plan to south, but wondering how far north the salmon go? I know you can get them north metro later in the season (yanchep, two rocks, etc) - do they go further?

Cheers!

heard them get as far as lucky bay/kalbarri region, all depends on the leeuwin tho.

Hopefully they come through the metro this season.. might make up for last year

hey guys im going down to dunsbro area for a quick trip from thurs night to sat arvo...can any locals point us to where we should target and how? i'll be bringing my dinghy down. cheers!

I was at my spot on the weekend between Walpole and Margs. Schools of Salmon everywhere and they're
massive. Not only the size of the schools are large but the weight of the fish
is unbelievable. Our largest was 8.2kg and they averaged probably 6.5kg

Mostly caught on plastics with a few on Mulies. I just can't believe the size of them this year. Last year we were only getting 4 - 5 kilo fish maybe a 6 kilo if we were lucky. This year it's going off. Photo's to come

Cheers, Higgo

I just got some wood.

So anyone planning to head down south this weekend should check out their favourites spots between Augusta and Dunsborough.

Maybe a day trip this weekend.

I have 3 weeks off starting Monday so I will be down that way a lot. :)

A good time to be off matee.

I'm very lucky to have a long weekend. So I'll be at Bunker bay for three days.

Fingers crossed I get lucky.

I take 2-3 weeks off every year to go salmon fishing. :)

and pros have been netting salmon near Deepdene according to the West's fishing column today.

deep deen, isnt that down augusta way?

any reports for salmon in dunsborough?

im heading down there ine 2-3 weeks, want to see if any are around.

Hopefully some one from down that way will give us some good news soon.

Cant get out for a look during this break, it's only a short one for me and I've got lots to do before I head back to work on Thursday. Next break I plan on terrorising the salmon if they're about. Might look at a week day out if anyone is coming down this way and want to have a look, share costs etc. Don't head back until Friday that week.

Cheers
Dale

New to surf fishing,have a family member out for a couple of weeks next month,any suggestions to hook them into some solid fish in the southwest region.I have fished Contos before

Thanks

Snipes

going to be down at Margaret River this weekend, any news or good catches coming in that area?
Also any pointers of where to try for a salmon around there.
( was thinking of sneaking in my rod and reel and some lures to take with while the wife does a spa treatment,...lol

thanks

and having a close look at the beaches in that area.

well booked the wife a nice long spa treatment and told her I will go to the meditation session...lol
what the go with lures this year, softyies / twisters / slices ??? any winners so far? need to hide a few in the case and the rod in the Jeep.. :)

slices and twisties,

Silver twisties, and blue slices do the trick.

65-80grams

Also throw in a couple poppers or stick baits aswell, they are always good to help stir up a spooked school of fish.

I heard from a local at the wedding on saturday night that Moses Rock (off caves rd near cowaramup) is going well for salmon atm, we went there on sunday morning.  Looks like a beatiful spot, I didnt see any salmon and there were so many surfers I didnt throw out a line.

Went for a dive on a reef just behind Little Island off Hillarys. Spotted a small school of Salmon (20-30 fish) estimate 3-4 kg. Saw them a number of time over an hour so they were hanging around the reef. Also spotted large school of herring so know why. Did not have fishing rod with me (bugger)

Good news, Mate just rang me and is currently onto a good school of salmon off Bunker Bay.

Going down to Dunsborough this weekend so hope a few more schools are making there way around the corner.

I'll be heading down tomorrow, around Dunny-Yallingup.

I was down at dunsborough/yallingup on the weekend, didn't see or hear of any salmon the whole three days we were there. did get into some good sized skippy though which wasn't too bad, but apart from that nothing much was going on. I'll probably go back down in about 3 weeks, hopefully they'll be thick by then.

this week with good ole Sherbs and a few other guys......sounds promising and finally will be able to use my Salmon set up. Been maiting for it for a while!

I'm heading down to Walpole for a week tomorrow.

will let everyone know how it goes!

Got down to my spot in mandurah bout twelve thirty and a huge resident school was already there smashing baitfish on the top. Already had a lure on the rod but it was tangled in some line and I couldn't untalngle it coz I was shaking in excitement and they were gone by the time I got it undone. They came back a minute later but were just cruising and not feeding so they didn't want a bar of the lure. Waited an hour and a half and never saw them again. Fish wouldve been 2.5-4kg

I got the go-ahead from "She who must be obeyed" to hit the beaches on sunday morning down at Margret River and maybe Saturday late afternoon as well, so look out for the dodgy Jeep with the Tackleshack sticker on the back...lol

cheers

Send up a baloon or something if you come across any big salmon schools.

Some people just dont look after their "livelihood" do they?????





I havent asked permission to use the photos, so I'll have to link to their thread...hope thats ok.



Click here - Pathetic!!

Having that much decaying fish in the water way could cause an outbreak

well spent most of last night sorting out tackle and lures,
could not find my rolls of 20lb and 30lb leader only got a 60lb roll, buugggga they probably still on the tub, so need to hit a tackle shop tonight.

almost ready and packed... :-)

what to do what to do

Considering running to hamelin sat arvo come home sunday, or do i wait till the weeeknd after easter...hmmmmm

Looks like salmon season is well and truly upon us. Just gotta get through one more day of work, then time to hit the yallingup area for the weekend. Can't wait to wet the whistle with some crisp coronas whilst waiting for the schools to swim right on by.

Was gonna go this morning, woke up to crap weather so decided not to.

Considering going on Sunday or wait until next thursday and friday and hit up yalligup area also. Not too far a drive from here

well packed and leaving the office at 3pm to head down south.
Maybe this is the year I break my Salmon hoodoo and get some nice fish at last.

Any news of schools around Margret River or surrounding areas?

cheers
Tony

Tony, I will be hitting hamelin bay 6am Sunday morning, more than welcome to join me :)

I may just be tempted to, going down to Caves rd later today to scout out the beaches and see whats around, today in Margret River. will see what tomorrow holds

I just got back from the best weekend I have ever had down around the yallingup area in 5 years of visiting during numerous autumn weekends each year in search of salmon.

I would go as far as to say I had to put in more gut running than ben cousins himself because the schools were virtually running back-to-back-to-back from the first second we rocked up in the cark park. Well worth it though. Top weekend. Even scored a few tailor between us out of the salmon schools for the frying pan.

So did anyone else get stuck into some salmon this weekend?

waiting for the old farts report for their weekend down south

im heading down to dunsborough next monday for 2 days, wondering what beach would be the best? was thinking smiths and yallingup would be a good choice but meelup is also tempting as last year meelup was proven to be quite good...wondering if anyone has caught any in meelup yet?

just got back from Margret River,

no luck on my side, but chap next to me at Prevally got a thumper. I'll post the pics later,
We had a small school in Prevally on sunday morning and they did follow the lures in, but only one taker, then the bloody morning local swimmers cruised through and scattered the school.
Later on Sunday was up at Injap ( spelling?), but nothing there and the swell was pumping in on a high tide.
Was told by a local that the close to full moon and pressure change of the front coming over would have shut the fish down.

Did here of fish being taken at Hamlin and up right near the Capes, but we did not get there.

oh well next time.

Tony

Augusta and fished hard for almost two days, and while we came across reports of small schools coming through at various spots along the coastline it appears that the big schools are probably still betwen Albany and Augusta.

Sherbs and I had the pleasure of running into Bodie and he picked up a few nice salmon down Hamelin Bay way in a hit and run visit.

Great to meet up with you at last Bodie and well done on your catches mate.

Heres a few from yesterday.

First 2 caught between 6am and 7am sunday morning, directly out from the boat ramp at Hamelin bay. School was only small about 1 tonne or so, and were sitting 80-90 metres out on the reef. Was the only one who managed to get a couple as i could make that distance with the 14 footer.

Next few came from around the back beach of Hamelin. We were lucky to get a school estimated at 8-10 tonne come right in infront of us maybe 25 metres out. Biggest salmon Ive seen in many years. Many hooked, many spat the lures and a few hit the beach.

Blue s lice was doing the trick

I think the salmon are in full swing down that way now. Some other people we spoke to said a school came in on Saturday right next to the ramp at about 8 tonne and just sat there all day, with only a couple landed.

On sunday there would have been 6 schools along hamelin beach, could tell by the groups of cars and anglers up the beach.

a few pointers for those who are new to targeting salmon.

Generally there will be a group of people throwing lures at or over the school, so when someone hooks up, be kind and dont cast over there line and let them play there fish.

Might be an idea to see if you can tag along with someone with experience chasing Salmon. Im still amazed at how many people cant see the salmon schools, or even a few salmon swimming around on the reef.

One of the salmon i caught directly out from the boat ramp, a couple of poeple were really surprised i managed to hook one. they didnt think there were any fish. I could see these fish moving about on the reef for a good 2 hours, and no one noticed. (tails breeching the water everynow and then)

Good to me you too Colin, bummer about the fish but they are about thats for sure. I may try make another run down the weekend after next if you guys are in the area :)
Or a boat trip might be even better :)

We also managed 4 nice KG's 40+cm's 1 40cm flattie about a dozen herring, and hundreds of skippy ranging from 10cms to 40cms.

And also big thanks to Bodie who let us borrow a couple of his salmon for a photograph to let some of our travelling companions know that there were indeed some salmon around.

just some proof their are fish down there!
but not being caught by me... :-(
the only one taken that morning on the beach where we fished.

any news of salmon running down in the denmark area or do ya rekon they would have passed there by now?

There were still schools in Albany earlier this week so I would think Denmark would be a great place to try your luck.

where are the spots to try around dunsbough area heading down in a week or so

The salmon are hitting the beaches everywhere from Hamelin Bay to Bunkers Bay this week. I would have a look around Meelup in a week or so.

cool will do that

Any decent Perth metro reports yet?

Hey,

Myself and a mate are heading down to Smiths Beach tomorrow morn, will be moving around abit though. Hoping to have a peek at Bunker Bay and Eagle Bay aswell. If anyone is in that vacinity tomorrow don't hesitate to say "hi". Just look out for a Blue Long Sleeve Daiwa Shirt with a wetty underneath.

Cheers.

heard that some schools have appeared at west end and off scarborough...

anyone else heard this

in the sunday times it reported a total of 25 schools, each school containg over 1000 salmon, all at meelup beach..weather was shit aswell, very windy, raining, big waves etc but the salmon were going off..going there tomorow and tuesday and hopefully ill manage to get some.

of writing up old reports. We were down that way Saturday and there was nothing around.
But that is not to say they won't be there again now. That is the story with salmon chasing. You have to be in the right place at the right time.

Fishing reports are good guides of where the fish are at the moment. As Colin mentioned, just be at there at the right time and you'll get into them no problems. There have been shit loads caught over this weekend no doubt.

There was a decent school going through Bunker Bay on friday morning, few people got into them. Was chatting some of the locals on friday and they said they've been pretty inconsistant so far, just drive around until you see a school then get out and chase them.

what we tried but to no avail!!! Stupid fish