Me and my mate benjo (goatlobster) headed down to mandurah with our rods and surfboards and bagged out on tailor and skippy off the rocks by midday. Drove 100m up the road to check the surf and while we were looking out at the waves something in the shallows caught my eye. A school of mullett, bout 15m out were flying out the water with what i was sure were salmon not too far behind their tails! We grabbed the rods out of the car and i was casting a richter plug and benjo was using a slice but after about 5mins with no more sightings we called it quits and grabbed the boards and paddled out.

In between sets i noticed small fish on the surface only 10m away and called them for gardies but wasnt 100% sure. Not too long after the water bubbled up bout 20m away and there were schools of gars flying everywhere and a school of salmon absolutely smashing them! We couldnt believed it, the salmon chased the gars so close to us, probly only 5m away!

After a while, a guy rocked up and started casting from the beach and after a couple casts his rod buckled over and we couldnt quite tell if he was onto a fish or snagged on the reef. While we were watching the fisho, this huge wave sneaked up on us and both of us got absolutely buckled! Thats when i saw the guy pull up a hefty salmon over the ledge and then we made the call to paddle in and grab the rods..

As we were running to the cars, all along the beach there were schools of salmon hitting the gardies and they were flying everywhere, every now and then a coulpe of salmon would cartwheel clean out of the water. Benjo hooked up not too long after on a slice but busted him off on the reef after a couple seconds. I had no hits on the popper and the other guy ended up getting another one.

I went back down to the same stretch of beach the next day, and couldnt see any schools. So went over to the groyne and the choppers were around in plague proportions. Caught about 15, 20-25cm fish in an hour, all on a gold 30g twisty. Went back to the beach and after a couple casts i hooked onto a good size salmon, around 5kgs, and got it right in until the very last ledge of reef snapped my 18lb line :( Ended up getting quite a few hits on the richter popper but couldnt hook-up as the whitewash was throwing the lure around all over the place.

Cant wait to head back down when the swell is 2m smaller maybe i'll actually be able to land some!