Salmon Today
Ok today i thought i'd give squidding a shot for bait for saturday, so i spent 3 hours travelling to rockingham and walked all the way up to mangles bay.
When i got to mangles bay i had 3 casts then saw some pretty big fish smashing up all the whitebait schools that were congregating just over the weed bed, chucked on a 20g slice and by about my 5th cast i was on.
6lb was a raping, felt like my drag wasnt doing anything but sure enough after about 5-6 minutes i landed an estimated (im conservative) 3-3.5kg salmon with the beautiful yellow colour showing through, hooked another two which were long distance released (gotta love that one) and then called quits by about 1:30pm to get home at a reasonable hour, left them biting too.
There were about 3 small schools of 5-6 fish, and they were smashing up garfish, herring and white bait.
Pitty about the squid but a salmon was a welcomed bycatch.
Woulda been spewing if i didnt take my lures.
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sounds good Life is short so
sounds good
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Good effort coming all that
Good effort coming all that way,,well done on the Salmon.
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rewarded
Sounds like you were rewarded for effort flangies, good stuff mate.
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salmon!
Good stuff Flangies, good fish on 6lb/sporty stuff!
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top fish on 6lb thankz for
top fish on 6lb thankz for the info
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That's great James What outfit were you using?
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im stoked to hear that there is some salmon around rockingham after hearing its gonna be a poor season, at least theres some around!
thanx flangies
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I was using a daiwa
I was using a daiwa crossfire 2500 (needs updating) on a procaster Z
I might head down again next week and try another time, not expecting any but if they are residents or atleast hanging in the area i do have a good chance,
Just recovering from lasts nights all nighter haha that shark was freaking huge.
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