Another salmon
On my way to my usual fishing spot today, i stopped in at BCF to buy myself an anchor for the jetski and a rapala x-rap. Also bought myself a popper, a Starlo Pro skipping prawn surface lure, designed for catching bream. After 5mins of casting the rapala with no luck, i decided to throw on the popper to have a look at the action it made on the water. After the first cast i knew i was going to catch a fish on this lure, it blooped perfectly and swam naturally, although i was a bit worried at how small the trebbles were. A minute later a school of around 50 salmon hit the surface 5-10m infront of me, with small bait fish fleeing in all directions. The popper landed right in the middle of all the comotion and after a few twitches 3 or 4 salmon smashed in on the top and i was on. landed the fish after a few minutes and chucked it straight in the bucket. 10mins later the school was back and on my second cast i was hooked onto another. this fish uncharacteristically pulled 15m of line on its first run and swam straight to the bottom, then the fish was gone. the salmon had straightend the hooks on both trebbles!! Going back tomorrow, hopefully will have some more pics to upload :D
beau
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ha! just noticed how scared
ha! just noticed how scared that poor lure looks!!
H.S. Chan
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im so jelous mate. Been
im so jelous mate. Been waitin for salmon but i've never really targeted them knowing what i need to know to do so.
Good catch, looked like woulda been fun.
chrisp
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Ooooh salmon..
Nice work..is this metro?
beau
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South of the river
is all im going to say :P
Faulkner Family
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nice looking salmon. did
nice looking salmon. did that one go around the 3kg mark
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
swoffer
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Looks like 3 , huge , no
Looks like 3 , huge , no wonder he's keeping the location secret . ROFL
Wrassassin
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Nice work mate, can't wait
Nice work mate, can't wait to have some fun on these bad boys
Dale
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I'm south of the river, in
I'm south of the river, in fact quite a few rivers.
Cheers
Dale
"Just because you are a Character, Doesn't mean you have Character."
Mr Wolf
wide open
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you live down
on the cape area
no wonder
Johnyy_Boii
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nice salmon, what type of
nice salmon, what type of rod where you using?
chrisp
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Ill have a crack
shimano starlo stix shorespin 9ft.Perfect for flicking metals/poppers for salmon.
beau
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Chrisp
Wow
salm0n hunter
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im south of irwin river
im south of irwin river ,moor river , swan river mortlock river , collie river ile try south of them tell u how i go :s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c88DeKDBRjs salmon season last year 2009