Fishing saturday

 After many weeks of reports flooding through the shop and photo after photo of some stonking Australian Salmon I FINALLY had my chance to take the boat out and stretch the arms and get a bend in the rod again and I wasnt disapointed! We headed out from woodies at about 6.30am and headed straight for Mewstone reefs where we were greeted with a surprisingly small number of boats which at that stage was only 2 plus us. First cast got a nudge...second another nudge...then third..was a nudge followed by a wack and it was on for young and old from there. We hooked and landed one after another and released all but a couple for the family and neighbours who actually enjoy eating them. All in all we landed easily 20+ all over 5kg with the biggest a bit over the 8kg mark on bibbed minnows, stickbaits and plastics and of course I couldnt resist the temptation to use the bream tackle which was a challenge! By the time we left mewstone at around 10.30am they were still biting but there were over a dozen boats so was wondering if anyone else did well also or even better then we did because as far as I could see nearly every boat was hooked up at once? And did the orange hire boat I saw there survive the reef coz he was doin some very dangerous things while we were there!?


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How long did the 8kg fish go?

Sun, 2015-05-03 19:35

How long did the 8kg fish go? Would be interesting to know as I never weigh my salmon but would be good to have a rough gauge on what length fish weighs what

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 They were particuarly fat

Sun, 2015-05-03 21:28

 They were particuarly fat fish but these measure in the mid 80cm mark

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Saturday was going off

Mon, 2015-05-04 16:22

 I was one of the twenty or so boat into a big school in Cockburn Sound on Saturday about midday. They were going off and as per your session they were all around 5kg. I had a couple cough up a pile of mullies on my deck so that is why they were so fat.. I was trolling a deep diving lure (Green, double hooks) and once on the girlfriend would grad the rod while I put the boat in neitral and tossed out a floating mullie on the other rod and boom, both on each time. a great day...