Salmon at Preston
On Tuesday I went down to Preston to finally fish, heading north about 5km along the beach to a likely gutter.
I heard that Bouvards was weeded out so fished the beach halfway from just before midday and was at it until sunset.
I managed to get some live herring and whiting later on for bait.
The highlight was a 4kg plus stray salmon that turned up at 3pm, and it was caught on a mulie.
The salmon went like a train and was a good fight even on 30lb braid given the amount of weed around.
I kept it in the shallows awhile to tire it out but that doesnt work as well for salmon.
So I ended up gritting my teeth and lugging the salmon and a mess of weed out of the water.
A few tailor were caught but only one was size.
I had a couple of decent runs around 4pm but the weed got in the way and I lost them.
The wind and weed picked up at sunset so I called it a day.
aka chess shark elsewhere..
PB Black Bream 48cm
PB KG Whiting 48cm
PB Mulloway 18kg
PB Tailor 3kg
PB Salmon 4kg
PB Snapper 3kg
PB Samson 25kg
PB Snook 60cm
PB Flathead 45cm
PB Gummie 100cm
PB Hammerhead 35kg
oh and.....
PB Blowfish - 24 in one trip
Herring are not a food fish they are best used as bait for bigger fish.....
Uluabuster
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Good metro Salmon!
Good Salmon!
Willlo
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Good stuff,mate of mine
Good stuff,mate of mine caught one at the huts recently as well,looks like the metro crew might get a few this year and take a bit of pressure of the south coast happy days.
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Willlo
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Good stuff,mate of mine
Good stuff,mate of mine caught one at the huts recently as well,looks like the metro crew might get a few this year and take a bit of pressure of the south coast happy days.
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shorething
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great effort especially
great effort especially amongst the weed!