SALMON SESSION
Hi all
Got a call from a mate yesterday askin if i wanted to chase some salmon.
Didnt take much to twist my arm as i havent caught a salmon before and was keen to cross it off my list of fish to catch.
Headed to a landbase spot at rockingham, the weather was good and water was clear and flowing. I didnt have my mulie in the water for longer than 30 sec and whack! it was nailed by a salmon. What a great fight, my first salmon ever, all i needed to do was land it. With a bit of help from my mate and a good fight later we landed it. Should have seen the smile on my face! We ended up catching 3 each that were all around 5 to 6 kilo mark.
Caught them on mulies and soft plastics.
I took one home for dinner and dispite the rumors i have heard about the salmon tasting crap, myself and the family thought it was great.
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Colin Hay
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Good stuff Rodrat
It is good to hear that someone is doing well up this way for salmon. Maybe it is a sign that they might finally be getting to Perth.
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GusG
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Nice!
Good work mate. I am currently working down in Rockingham so I might have to try for a salomn after work one day.
mako magic
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did you see them swimming by
did you see them swimming by or just got them blind?
Rodrat
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Mako
They kept chasing bait fish in the area, they would swim by every so often.
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mako magic
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big numbers was there or
big numbers was there or just a few at a time, good to hear there is a few down that way finally too
Rodrat
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Mako
Saw about 8 or 10 at a time, no huge shoals.
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rainbow
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Ever seen them in a huge shoal with their dorsals above water?
Way back in the 80`s I went to NZ (with a club I was in) on a trout fishing trip to South island on the Waitaki river cental Otago. The second day the locals invited us all down to the estuary & told us to leave our fly rods back at camp. When we got to the beach the smell of rotting fish was F---- awful as there where salmon of 7 -12 pounds lying around everywhere with just seagulls hoeing into them! Just off shore the water was dark with a huge shoal & their dorsals were breaking the water everywhere!
Our dear Kiwi hosts & many others were lobbing big silver hardware into them & jagging as many as possible, dragging them ashore by their tails, backs, gills, anything that got hooked!
We were told that they were just a bloody nuisance by preventing the lures getting down to the 'real' salmon underneath! They were referring to Quinnat or Chinook that were an introduced species to NZ just like trout!
I was given one of these heavy spinning rods to fish with & found that the salmon ( Kaowai )would grab cleanly anyway given half the chance & so I realised 5 of these handsome native fish unharmed. The largest was about 4 1/2kilos!
Couldnt wait to get into doing the right thing with a fly rod on this fantastic river back inland! Funny tho, caught many trout in 3 weeks, but never one above 5lbs!
I`d rather be fishin`!!!