Mewstone Salmon
Hey all,
I went out with Fishwrecked member Nickk today for a crack at some tailor and salmon this afternoon out of woodies. We were surprised when heading out to the mewstone tailor spot to see between 25-50 boats between Garden Island and Carnac and then the same again north of Mewstone. Most seemed to be anchored up??? We got to mewstone and had a good crack at the whitewash with mulies on gangs and soft plastics on jigeheads with one driving and the other casting for no luck. After 20-30 mins Nickk(the skipper) said what do you want to do? I said all these boats have to be going for salmon maybe we should have a troll... So I lent Nickk a rapala Xrap in a mulie pattern and tied one on myself on the 20lbs spinning outfit and we headed off around mewstone.
Within five mins my rod went off, as I said to Nickk 'I'M ON' he yelled out 'I'M ON' we both were stoked to see our respective salmon doing aerials and tailwalking around the boat. After 5 mins or so of drags screaming on both reels and multiple passing of rods over and under as the fish took us around the boat we both landed our first metro salmon and released them to be followed by cheers and high fives. From there we did another loop resulting in another double hookup. Nickk wanted to keep one to try so we iki jimi'd it and bled it out into the ice in the esky. What now was the question. I had released two and wasnt all that keen on keeping one, Nickk was at one release one in the esky, but the fight was so awesome we had to go again. Around we went and by this time about four boats from the pack north of mewstone had headed over to check out our spot. Lures went out and within 15 seconds mine went off so I told Nick to cast again, sure enough on the retrieve his reel went off with my hooked salmons mate. A few minutes later we both landed our third salmon for the day. We both said what now? We had to have one more go...
So lure out again, by this time a gin palace had moved and pulled up in our troll line so I said to Nick take us across his stern and show him what they arent catching as they appeared to be squidding. Sure enough as we passed them both rods went off again. Another spectacular fight and after a few mins we both landed our fourth metro salmon ever. Unfortunately mine had so vigourously hit the xwrap he was bleeding a bit from the gills so I dispatched it a bled it out and will be trying salmon tomorrow morning.
We still had light and decided to move to the back of carnac for a drift and despite several bites, shows on the sounder and a small pinky landed it was not to be. We headed in pretty happy with the days efforts.
Cheers Nick.
Bryan
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Awesome
Looks like you had an awesome day Bryan
Conditions look mint, that new camera of yours takes a decent picture.
See you on Friday wind permitting
chris raff
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Good stuff guys , I reckon
Good stuff guys , I reckon some of those boats you seen would’ve been the the snapper afternoon shift . We went out friday morning and got into a few skippy behind carnac but didn’t see many boats or any bird action , in hindsight we should’ve tried a random troll around as you guys thought to do . Nice pics and well done .
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Swompa
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We got there just after
We got there just after lunchtime after finding a school between North Mole and the shipping channel. They both destroyed the lures and my net in the process, and after sending one to sleep, had to keep the other after it didn't swim away.
After getting out to Mewstone and again seeing most boats anchored, we had a feed watching that was going on. Tried a few casts into the reef and could see them chasing the Plugs though not committing. We both changed to X-wraps and it was on.
Chatting to a couple of boats about how fun they were to catch, one putted by and told us about how they had all gone quiet. Over the next 10 minutes, we landed 4, all going back and swimming away hard.
what was disappointing was when we arrived, seeing 4 fish upside down floating on the surface. Between the boats.
stricko
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I was freediving for crays at
I was freediving for crays at straglers on Friday and there was about a dozen boats and they were all hooking into them. was thousands of salmon on the top of the reef and they were swimming with a big school of small blue bait but showing no interest at all even the bait didn't seem worried yet they were hitting the cast lures hard by the look of it.pretty hardy fish buy the look of the bite wounds some of them were carrying I don't think four casualties is to bad for thatmany boats we picked up a floater for burly but was only the one
Swompa
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The ones we got at Mewstone
The ones we got at Mewstone all had injuries on them though the ones inshore were healthy but didn't fight as hard
uncle
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yeah theres alot
with injuries, makes you wonder how they survive them
all aggressive fish love bigjohnsjigs
stricko
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wonder if the injured ones
wonder if the injured ones are quicker to take a bait /lure as probably 1 in 50 with marks at straggs. I was more interested in what was doing the damage saw one nice pink about 5kg but nothing else I could think would have a crack at fish that size
sarcasm0
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sharks...?
Plenty of stories about sharks following the schools. We saw a freediver at mewstone yesterday after catching the salmon, I said to Nick he's bloody brave with all these schools and boats burleying up.
Bryan
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Lost a rod and reel there yesterday
Deckie caught it as he went to cast out and lifted it from the rocket launcher, his rod and reel fortunately. Will have a snorkel for it tomorrow.
Tim
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Plenty
Plenty of boats out yesterday
Mewstones area was like a carpark at one stage.
This was a few boats fishing the area after lunch.
Swompa
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Got a similar pic looking
Got a similar pic looking the other way. Don't see it like that too often
meglodon
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Please take a ticket and
Please take a ticket and wait until your number is called, well not quite that bad lol.
Tim
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Easy to find
Was easy to find your way there too. Even from miles away.
Just had to follow the stream of floating Salmon.
Noxious
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Yeah we noticed our fair
Yeah we noticed our fair share of floating salmon.
We crushed all our barbs. A quick 20-30 second swim beside the boat is all they generally need.
beau
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Guys planning on catching and
Guys planning on catching and releasing should be running singles with a crushed barb