Salmon school
Submitted by lachieH on Sat, 2014-07-12 19:19
Saw this in the paper. Do salmon schools really get that big? Or is the paper wrong
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MattMiller
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thats just an average one.
Personally seen schools down here over 50t. Regularly see 10t schools every year.
Biggest school i've ever see was over 100m across held up in the southern part of Smiths Beach. They sat there for over 2 weeks.
I'm sure old mate Carnarvonite has seen some big schools over the journey.
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No need to laugh about me
No need to laugh about me not knowing it
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Don't take anything on a
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Salmon schools
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Nah mate, schools don't get
Nah mate, schools don't get that big. The paper photoshopped that one.
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from that pic i would have
from that pic i would have no clue how big that is, nothing to compare by. i personaly have seen the beach at warpole blackened with salmon, it was that thick you would have thought it was seaweed was as far as i could see, wasn't until a wave came through you realised it was salmon. most rediculous thing ive seen
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Schools
Biggest school that I've been involved with was at Hamelin in the mid sixties, We'd got a few small shots in that day, both around 8-10 ton and around 1600 spotted a good one and round went the boat and then the work started. Those days it was mainly pull the net by hand till the pocket hit the shore then hook it up to the old forby an ex WW2 truck with about 22 inch wheels, to pull the pocket, my job being the youngest was to climb inside the net with the opening held up with poles and throw the fish out so they could be loaded on to the fleet of Landrovers [no cruiser utes then] to transport them up the beach and into trucks to take them to the factory in Busselton to be headed and gutted , iced and then trucked up to Perth for canning.
Back to the beach, while we were getting the fish out of the net another school came in and sat just outside from the net, this school looked in my opinion to hold over 300 ton, a monster compared to the big one we'd got that went 67 ton.
Have heard my second cousin Boodge Guthrie, describe schools he'd seen when using his plane to spot down between the capes, some going in to the thousand tons with a diameter of over 500 metres.
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There ya go
knew I could rely on ya John
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had the oppurtunity 18 years
had the oppurtunity 18 years ago to watch speed boats tow the nets out and around the schools back to the beach, tractors hook up the ropes and pull the nets in, tourist shovel the salmon on the beach. it was take a couple if you like method if you helped. that was like walking through the shops during school holidays (thick as dog shit) sooooo many salmon they called in the local farmers to help truck the fish out. it was normal apparently
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Big School
Check out this big school in metro waters from a couple of months ago.
youtu.be/Veb_NKIrpDQ
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back a few years ago ,
back a few years ago , approx. 89or 1990 I was crewing for a pro , we where fishing in eagle bay , bob jones crew where fishing in bunkers, our day was slow so we climbed up on top of rocky point to see how they where going ,
from up there we watched them put a school of about 80ton into the net dolphins just pushed them in from out deep , straight onto bunkers
they had so many they had to shoot a second net around it and let some out into the second net ,
using 4 cruisers to pull it in onto the beach ,two cruisers at each end to haul it in , not sure how many they landed all up , but it blocked the cannery for the easter weekend for us and all others from memory,
that was the haul where one of the crew involved got caught in the net as it was being hauled in , heard him scream out from up on the top of rocky point , think his toe got pinched in the mesh
biggest haul iv been involved with was 37 ton at inji , took us from 2pm until after midnight to clear the salmon from the pocket
back around the same time we went out dhuie fishing in the pro boat , as we headed around the cape, we ran across a massive school of salmon about as big as a footy field, across and 5 metres plus deep ,
just a staggering amount on salmon , we stopped the engines and just watched em for about 15 mins,
back in 2010 we had a school about 150 metres long and 5-6 metres wide meander onto a beach we where fishing at first light , down south ,near Hamelin , about 20 of us fished them for over 4 hours , before they schooled up into a ball offshore about 100 metres and just sat there tailing , the water around them turned white with the sand they where pulling up in the vortex from there tailing action around them , they would of been in 15 metrs of water probly, pretty awesome sight to see like that for about an hour or so huge big wide circle ..
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Salmon teams
Worked with Bob Jones, Smithy the Miles;s and the boys from Bunbury, the Lucas and Soulos boys on and off for many seasons from Hamelin through to Wonnerup catching thousands of tons in that time. Can be very boring at times and extremely hard work at others.
Where the concrete pad is on the sand hill just off the beach in Eagle Bay used to be our camp with a tin shed built by old Nick Soulos in the fifties, sat on the cross arm of a telegraph post with binoculars for hours watching for schools that didn't come for months, total that season was 28 ton in one school over 4 months, the next season at Hamelin got nearly 800 ton in 3 months.
Would love to have $1 for each fish I have carted up the beach.
In ]between waiting we would belt a lure out at any single fish that passed for a bit of sport and piss money to sell to the tourists. Always had a good supply of lures from fish that had broken off either from too light lines or bad knots.
Was at Hamelin with Shane Miles and we spotted a school we estimated at around 150 tonne [metrics in now] and only had the capacity to handle about 40 tonne so we decided to see if we could cut the school in half [something never done as you usually end up with all or nothing because they spook very easily] Shane rowed right through the middle of the patch, even hitting fish when he dipped the oars it went well and we got 30 tonne in the net with the rest of the school being picked up by the other teams as it passed further down the beach.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFXA-vhT8jY
This is from a couple of years ago at Eagle bay and Bunkers, second half is a one of the biggest schools I've fished.
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