The river is firing!!
With all this pretty average weather of late for landbased fishing I thought of maybe giving the swan a bash for some flatty's. Got to my trusty hot spot about 4:30 in the arvo and away we go. The black bream were like blowies, we couldnt get through them, not one under 25cm and ranging around 30cm mark (mind you they werent the fattest bream i've ever seen) but every one was sized! As soon as it got darker we finally ended up landing heaps of flattys most of them undersized with the odd one or two going over 35cm and onto my dinner plate. We caught a range of different species. We ended up landing heaps of tarwine with one pretty nice size, a few tailor, couple of small pink snapper, flounder, snook and endless amounts of black bream. I reckon the river in the upper reaches is as healthy as ever, I've never caught so many fish in sesh in the swan river before.
one of the many black bream
and tarwine
blackie release shot
double header
not a bad tarwine
nice little pinkie
one of the few tailor that came to play as soon as the sun went down on the flatty rigs
the only ones we kept the others were all released
kill it??? eat it!!!!
Thomo 85
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Nice mixed bag!
Nice mixed bag there mate, Nothing wrong with taking a feed!
West Aussie Fisho
Swan River Fisher
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very nice work mate
very nice work mate
scott99
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i all so sent a live tailor
i all so sent a live tailor out ....after 45 mins the rod tip started bouncing like crazy ,i told ealzee it was about to go off ,then slack line lost hole rig was not happy ,not sure what went wrong
dkonig82
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Great session for the river.
Great session for the river. Never had much luck in there myself - maybe I should try again!
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aalfred
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Nice Fish! And a good
Nice Fish! And a good variety!
championruby
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Nice session, looks like the
Nice session, looks like the lower reaches, not the upper though? Near minim cove?
glastronomic
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For Taylor sessions , you
For Taylor sessions , you have to follow the diving seagulls at dusk or early morning and troll through the comotion.
You will catch plenty of choppers and sized ones.
Wicket fun in a dinghy or small boat.
Does not lasts long but is very hectic.
No swearing involved as you will be to busy fighting the little game fish!
Swan River Fisher
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if only tailor grew to 2m and
if only tailor grew to 2m and 100kg and lived in the river....
Digger01
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Long Arms
Got fairly long arms in a couple of them photos... Could have tried that with my flounder.
soupster51
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Session
Great river session. Awesome to see such a variety of fish caught.
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