Salmon school sighted in rivee
Submitted by Fisher Kid on Sun, 2016-03-27 18:34
I was just driving down around east freo and saw a large rippling mass of fish. Got out of car and followed a small school of salmon. Fish dissapeared. I'm so mad I didn't get a photo of them swimming under the jetty. Hopefully bthey stay around and this year is good forr them again
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Fishing and catching are two different things. But i want to learn how to catch.
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squidvicious1
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Nice photo and if you got a
Nice photo and if you got a fish fish even bettr
carnarvonite
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Mullet
More than likely they were sea mullet, very much doubt salmon have reached metro beaches yet and wouldn't expect they are going to travel up river
scotto
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Dunno there mr vonite....
plenty of Facebook photos of metro salmon landbased over the last few days, and I personally witnessed and caught salmon in (yes IN) the harbour last year, after a massive school Were busting up the wharf, Stirling hwy and queen Victoria st bridges for about a week.
sea-kem
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Yeah there were heaps caught
Yeah there were heaps caught in the harbour last year, there were a few youtube clips.
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Fisher Kid
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i initially thought mullet
i initially thought mullet too. But have you seen sea mullet do the salmon jump or voraciously feed on bait fish?
You may well be right but as the yellow fins were noticed by myself and another guy i am sure they are salmon.
Fishing and catching are two different things. But i want to learn how to catch.
Fisher Kid
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also since im not goint to
also since im not goint to disclose exact location, lets say they were under the concrete bridge in fremantle. That is not "upriver" but in saying this i do not wish to discount you as you may well be right.
Fishing and catching are two different things. But i want to learn how to catch.
Swompa
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pretty clear to see where you
pretty clear to see where you are by the location of the setting sun, the bridge and the boats. Guessing you are too young to have gone for a beer?
hezzy
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agree with john here while
agree with john here
while there where salmon schools right down near the freo harbour mouth last year ,wharfies posted pics of them at the front of the containers ships bulbous bows ,one of my mates works there reckoned he could have landed plenty
however I don't think they went too far up river so to speak
mullet on the other hand this time of the year school up and travel and jump or plop out of the water regularly , mullet ripple the water differently when moving along to how a salmon school will .... salmon rarely jump when travelling in schools unless they have a lure stuck in their gob ,or are hooked up on a blokes rod ... salmon will ''tail '' where you see there heads down and tails up out of the water when schooling , circling and laying up
if you have spent enough time on the water netting them, there pretty easy to tell them apart when you spot a school of either
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carnarvonite
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Thanks
Thanks Hezzy, when one has spent may years on a beach catching salmon professionally or as a rec fisherman and it gets second nature to know their habits, same goes for mullet herring and whitebait, netting them in the estuary off Australind on off ocean beaches
Fisher Kid
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yea im too young to have a
yea im too young to have a beer by a few months. Looks like ive been out worded by guys older and wiser than me. They may well have been mullet, but as i was there in the flesh to see them swim under my feet i was sure they were salmon.
Or maybe all this is me frothing over the thought of a school of salmon up in my part of the river :)
Fishing and catching are two different things. But i want to learn how to catch.
Swompa
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There were plenty caught just
There were plenty caught just on the other side of that bridge last year, on the same side of the river (a few videos went up on Facebook), and there were a few picked up on South and North Mole, so they are out and about.
squirrel
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definatley the salmon go up
definatley the salmon go up the river(dunno how far), seen a school in the north freo area last spring under the bridge near where this pic is, just finning against the current, was right on top of them looking down trying to get a take but couldn't, just follows, 100% they were salmon, big suckers too
thanks for the report fisherkid!
Callum24
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not long back I was heading
not long back I was heading out and seen bulk schools of scallies few k up river from there, smashing what I think we're tinny prawns
Threw a few bait jigs round only managed 10 odd so I no they were scallies but zoned in on these tiny prawns
A bit later the misses and I pulled a few slimies yakkas and ababy sambo at mossyBay so I would think the salmon could go that far if these fish can be there at times
But dead right mate can't argue with experience but I'm hoping they were salmon mate
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