Dunsborough Salmon
So we were back at home for a fortnight from the easter trip and took advantage of a holiday home cancellation which happened to coincide with our anaversery.
Arriving in Dunsborough just before lunchtime, we quickly unloaded the boat and made it to the water at 1230 (good to not have to set up a tent and swag) and started looking for signs of salmon. All reports suggested they were hard to find and before long we were in Bunker bay, doing pretty much the same as a heap of other boats - looking aimlessly for signs of fish. Not much to show there so we continued putting and made it as far as the Cape Naturaliste before turning around and making our way back.
Half way back, the breeze turned off allowing us to test for top speed before coming across a sligtly different tone of darness in the water which turned out to be a deep school of fish, which i assume were salmon.
Drone up, cast out, cast out, cast out, cast out. Change lure, cast out, cast out, cast out, cast out. Change lure and repeat....couldnt get them interested. not remotely.
Ended up drifting over them which really turned them off but anyhow - got a cool shot out of it.
Looking at the video I will post below, they were slightly interested in the lures but non committal.
Did the walk out to Cape Naturaliste on the western side of the cape along the beach which was nice and also a few other touristy things.
carnarvonite
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Herring gone missing
Took advantage of Saturdays fine weather and took the drive down to Dunsborough. Stopped at Point Piquet, took a rod out and heap of burley and after about an hour flicking the blob and green tubing out without a single chase gave up and went further south to Canal Rocks.
Again, propped myself on the rocks next to the bridge , chucked handfulls of burley in and again flogged the water for about another with the blob and green tubing for zero result.
Not that I was keen to take a fish home, it was good to spend a bit of time with the missus out and about on a splendid winters day. What surprised me was the amount of peopleout and looking at the sights, Dunsy was chockers and plenty of traffic on way both down and back.
Looking at the pic of the school of fish, my guess is that they were salmon trout, used to see quite a few of them when pro fishing the area years back round this time of the year
Swompa
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Yeah they were certainly
Yeah they were certainly small but bigger than herring.