Another month of fishing

hey all, havent realy been bothered to do a post everytime i catch a fish so im going to do it all now in one hit. Please read and hope you enjoy :D

 

About a month ago a mate and i were fishing at Dawesville cut, catching plenty of herring and hoping for a school of salmon to swim past. We were getting herring every cast on our light gear using 3inch plastics  and our 9ft starlo stix were rigged up with rapala xrap's, waiting for any signs of salmon. My mate yells out "SALMON" but is quick to correct himslef to say "oh nah, buff bream," then his 1-3kg rod buckles over and i hear him yell out "oh no!" The school of "buffalo bream" were actually salmon and he hooked one on the plastic using 8lb line and 15lb leader! Suprisingly the fish didnt snap him off within 10 seconds, and thats when i decided to grab the net, but not actually believing he was going to land this fish. The salmon dragged him up and down the rocks and at times he was standing on the very tip of pointy rocks. I pretty muched laughed the whole time while he would hop from rock to rock, occasionaly thinking to myself that i might have to catch him in the net rather than the fish. He fought the fish for over 10 mins and just as he was pulling the fish towards me on a lump of swell, the fish comes off, 30cms from the net, and the 7ft bream rod whipping me in the head! At first we thought the line had given way, but after inspection we noticed the plastic was still there but the actual hook had snapped! Goatlobster said it would have been his best ever capture, a 4-5kg salmon on a 1-3kg bream rod.

 

Later on in the week i went back down there, but this time i hooked my salmon on the heavier gear, 9ft starlo with 18lb line with a rapala xrap. The xrap has done well this season, catching me 10 salmon, 9 off the rocks and one on the jetski :) The guy next to me hooked one while i was playing my fish, looked to be on a 35g laser, but lost it a short time after.

 

A couple weeks ago i went back down there, and caught hardly any herring but i did manage to jag a few mullet! Some were pushing 35cm :D

 

I went to bali for 10 days and missed out on what might have been the last few days to catch a salmon, ohwell, im sure i'll get some out of season stragglers this year!

 

Got back from bali and the next day i headed back down to the cut with my girlfriend. I caught heaps of herring and some chopper tailor on a 5g twisty and plastics. Even Claire knew the fishing was hot, and opted to trade the bitchy magazines for my light gear, and caught heaps of herring aswell. She could only cast about 8m but it didnt matter, the fish were everywhere! How could i resist, with only 3 more days of holidays left before i went back to work, i went back down there the very next day. Suprise suprise, i caught heaps more herring on plastics, around 50 in a couple of hours, then something the same size but with a little more gusto hit the placcie. I loosened the drag right up and let the fish take some line, making this fight worth my while. Brought it up to the rocks and realised it was a lone salmon trout swimming with the school of herring. In two days i went through 5 plastics, the herring were demolishing them!

 

Earlier this week, the weather was magic. Sunshine and the wind was hardly pushing 5knts. Hmm jetski or fishing? Ohh the hard decisions in life! Why not combine them both, Jetskishing!! Called claire up on my way home from work, told her i needed a deckie, and she was all for it! Had the ski in the water by 1pm and a 100m out of kwinana boat ramp i launched the 5g twisty out the back. All Claire had to do was steer, the idle speed of the jetski was perfect trolling speed. After 2mins and no fish i decided to try somewhere i had tried before and caught tiny salmon trout. 5mins later and we were there and out went the twisty. Wouldnt have even been a minute later and i was on, the fish was pulling the 8lb line hard! Got it in and it was a 30cm salmon trout! The fish released well and the twisty was back in the water. 10secs.. 20secs.. 30secs.. BANG!! On again with another salmon trout  and it was going harder than the last one. I was loving this! Sitting facing backwards on the ski, with the reel buzzing pulling in fish! Claire got a couple and together probably caught over 10 salmon trout. Just as we were leaving i noticed some guys from a canoe pull up on the beach and start fishing. I watched in amazement as they pulled in 40cm+ flathead!

 

 Went back the next day and trolled for a bit and caught 2 more salmon trout then went up on the beach and fished where i had seen the 2 guys earlier. The 3inch gulp was getting "buzzed," with small fish all over it. Tap Tap tap.... I couldnt hook up to any of the fish, but after 10mins i got a solid hit and i was on. Ended up landing 4 of the best condition silver bream ive ever seen, all in consecutive casts, about 20-25cms. Fisrt bream ive ever caught on plastics, STOKED! After that i couldnt get a touch and thought i mightve spooked all the fish. BANG! On again but this fish was pulling alot more line than the bream, and when i got it in was so excited to see a nice big flathead!! My first size flattie, and on plastics!! Claire was cruising on the ski out deep, and i called her in and grabbed the camera! She didnt care much for my capture, she probably wondered why i was so excited to see such an ugly fish.

 

I had been keeping a close eye on the weather forecasts and knew that wednesday would be my last chance to get back out to the spot before the weather turned ugly. I ventured out by myself, and what is usually a 5min ski ride turned out to be about 15mins. The northerly was up and blowing about 15knts, but the sound was rough as guts. 70m from the boat ramp and i was soaked, i then realised i had to try and dodge the waves rather than fly over them hehe. Got to the spot and out went the plastic behind the ski, trolled for about 3mins and got a couple more salmon trout (hopefully they will still be there in a couple months and are 40cm+, my own personal school of juvi salmon that i can go catch whenever i please). Couldnt help myself, i just had to park the ski up and fish that spot. 1st cast, BANG, ON, nope OFF! 2nd cast, BANG, ON, oh nope OFF!!!! 3rd cast...... BANGGGGG didnt even get ON! Pulled the plastic in and it had been bitten in half just under the hook!!!!!! Noooooooooooooo! im still unsure to what it might have been, the bream have kind of crushing teeth and wouldnt bite it off cleanly, and the flattie i caught had tiny teeth. Times the size of the flattie by about 10, and then maybe youve got a big enough set of teeth, and an 8kilo flathead!!! Put a new plastic on, and cast for about 10mins with only a couple of small hits. Walked up a bit further and straight away pulled in another 20cm bream and a few casts later hooked up onto another solid fish. I was thinking it was an ever bigger flattie than the day before, but turned out to be a big bream!! The fish look like theyre all in such good condition, and all were released. So excited about this new spot, hopefully in summer the tailor will run there :D

 

If anyone is heading down to mandurah cut for a fish, be sure to PM me. I would love to have a fish with some other members down there :D

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nice fish i wish i could

Thu, 2010-07-08 16:26

nice fish i wish i could fish thatt often

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Yeh it is good to be able to

Thu, 2010-07-08 16:35

Yeh it is good to be able to fish as often as i do. Not so good waking up at shitty hours for shift work. At the moment i start work at 3am and finish at 11, and then i get to do whatever i want for the rest of the day!!

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nice long read mate. hahaha

Thu, 2010-07-08 16:30

nice long read mate.

hahaha good one jagging those mullet!!!

pitty about the hook :P

love the salmon trout aswell!

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Cheers mate. Yeh love the

Thu, 2010-07-08 16:36

Cheers mate. Yeh love the colours of salmon trout! They fight so well for smallish fish. Saw your story in the sunday times, awesome fish dude

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Thanks

Thu, 2010-07-08 16:41

Thanks

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excellent read and great

Thu, 2010-07-08 16:54

excellent read and great photos as well,good work

jeff

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thanks mate. only reason why

Thu, 2010-07-08 17:31

thanks mate. only reason why i post topics is because of comments like this. i wouldnt do it otherwise

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Well done mate

Thu, 2010-07-08 16:54

there's a lot on offer down there, lucky you.

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yeh there is, especially if

Thu, 2010-07-08 17:32

yeh there is, especially if you still enjoy catching smaller species. i enjoy catching fish no matter what

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nice fishes

Thu, 2010-07-08 17:12

now i just need a panadol, and to uncross my eyes....

seperate your paragraphs on the big ones mate.

good work for makin the effort though, and good fish too.

 

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haha sorry mate! The

Thu, 2010-07-08 17:22

haha sorry mate! The paragraphs were seperated but it changed when i submitted. I might be able to change it in edit :)

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thats better!

Thu, 2010-07-08 17:30

thats better!Cool

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heaps better

Thu, 2010-07-08 18:09

amigo.

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I like your work, awesome

Thu, 2010-07-08 17:36

I like your work, awesome Smile

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Nice write up mate! Love the

Thu, 2010-07-08 18:14

Nice write up mate! Love the pics too, some great fish there! Do you not keep the salmon trout to eat? mmmm I love them!

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hmm nah i dont realy keep

Thu, 2010-07-08 18:25

hmm nah i dont realy keep much fish, only when dad is with me. im too lazy to clean them! How do you cook the salmon trout? do they still have the blood line in them like the bigger ones?

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I just fillet and skin them,

Thu, 2010-07-08 22:49

I just fillet and skin them, cut out the red meat (yeh they still have a bit like the big ones) and coat them in flour and fry them in butter... mmmmm awesome fresh with a squeeze of lemon!

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A good read mate well done!

Thu, 2010-07-08 19:34

A good read mate well done!

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good read and pics mate well

Thu, 2010-07-08 22:29

good read and pics mate well done.

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well done , that lizzard

Thu, 2010-07-08 22:38

well done , that lizzard looks to be a decent size. would have been great in the pan. it would be great to be able to go fishing all the time but some of us arent so luckyTongue out

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need a longer net! and some

Fri, 2010-07-09 16:12

need a longer net! and some better quality jig hooks.. Another good read lobo! hahaha was wondering when u were gonna put this up? 

Although wheres the part about our salmon session on your ski? you know.. the time i went swimming.. hahaha

  Next week we be headin to this 'spot'.

 

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good read beau.......good

Fri, 2010-07-09 16:26

good read beau.......good stuff!

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