Fat Salmon
I went down to my usual spot on Wednesday to try for some salmon, didnt get into any but they were definately there, busting up the huge schools of tiny whitebait that has congregated in mass numbers down there lately. When they finally came within casting distance, they were extremely fussy and only swimming on the surface for a couple seconds before diving back down deep. As i was leaving, i noticed a big bust-up bout 250m from shore about 300m north of where i was fishing, so i pulled the car over and watched for a while and then saw a nice size tuna probably 5kgs+ jump clean out of the water.
So my plan this morning was to take the ski down and troll some small tuna skirts and a diving minnow to hopefully catch a salmon or tuna. Slept through my 6.30am alarm, didnt help that i didnt get home from work til 2am, woke up at 8.30 so quickly rigged up my heavier gear then when i finally went outside i realised that the seabreeze was already blowing. Decided to leave the ski at home and just take the flicky in hope for a salmon from the stones.
After hours of fruitless casting and watching the odd bust-up here and there, a small school of 15 fish came swimming up the rocks chasing mullet, out went the x-rap, a flat out retrieve to get a salmons attention then a slow twitchy action a couple meters from the rocks and one came and nailed it about a meter away from where i was standing. The fish gave me quite a bit of curry on 8lb mono on a 1-3kg flicky but after a few minutes got him close enough to net, but not without any dramas! There was quite a bit of surge due to the seabreeze and on the first attempt to net the fish the hooks got caught on the outside of the net and the fish was dangling on the side, i knew not to pull the fish out the water yet as it would have dropped so i kept wrapping the fish up til it was in the net and hoiked it up! By the time i got to the top of the rocks the hooks had pulled but the fish was safetly in the net.
Another guy fishing up the rocks had a cast at the bust up but with bait and didnt get a sniff. Probably the fattest salmon in comparison to its length ive ever caught!
Cheers,
Beau
GlennO87
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Nice fish. I didnt think
Nice fish. I didnt think Salmon came in that close....Any hints of the location ;)
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beau
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I caught about 20 salmon
I caught about 20 salmon last year and i reckon about 19 of them were hooked within 3m of where i was standing. Hints on the location? There's at least 2 grey/brown rocks and one has a small puddle of drity water on it haha ;)
Just1morecast
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Well done mate, nice pic that
Well done mate, nice pic that 2nd one:)
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beau
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cheers mate, the 1st pic was
cheers mate, the 1st pic was on a setting i used the other day and didnt realise til after i took the picture, was kind of in a mad rush!
troy fuller
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Nice, love fishing for
Nice, love fishing for salmon.
Just a bit interested, you said the hooks had pulled when you got to the top of the rocks? did you re-apply the lure for a photo? haha awesome fish
Nickjg
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Nice job
Hooked perfectly in the mouth
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dkonig82
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Good fish and photos
Good fish and photos mate.
Nice work.
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aalfred
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Well Done
Well Done
beau
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Yep chucked the lure back in
Yep chucked the lure back in for the photo haha!