As an avid regular landbased angler I was yet to catch an Australian salmon of size. My previous PB of a pair of 1kg salmon trout in the daweville cut which was soon to be beaten!

Day 1,

My mate and I headed down to Walpole Saturday morning arriving at 1pm; we were on conspicuous beach by 1.30pm. With the massive swells and abundance of peckers 1 Kilo mulies has disappeared and so had 3 Hours.

I was ready to leave when I then decided to pull out a 3 Ounce White Richter Plug, a lure I have never used before. A mate in Perth told me to cast this out, about dozen bullet casts and I was over it again. When suddenly I noticed this torpedo shape loom up to it the wave with excitement I yell out to my mate on my left to see if he can see it by the time I turn back and I am on and the Penn Prevail is at 90degrees  and the SSM V Spinfisher was singing with sounds of drag. After about 5 -10 minutes or so of some incredibly intense fighting, we beached it and it would have to be one of my best fishing moments of my life so far! After this it was to the pub for celebration bevies and double disappointment of both wa footy teams.

Day 2,

We headed to Boat Harbour, Denmark from rumours of Salmon being in abundance. We arrived there in the morning the swell was huge, police were there warning us regarding the dangers of fishing of these rocks, I proceeded to go fishing after do some assessing of the conditions the appropriate location with appropriate gear gaff/PFD/long rods.

First cast with a mulie on a 3/0 gang had me screaming for the gaff, I made the early call on salmon, however what surfaced was the last thing on my mind a big buff bream well & truly 2-3kg/60cm . I consider Buff Bream to be a shit fish but due to the sheer size I was unaware of big they grow? And fight of this fish I was rather impressed, however the camera was not on me and I wasn’t going to keep it obviously so back into the drink he went!

From then on the Skippy came on smashing full mulies, god it was a good reminder of how hard they fight I landed 4 but I dropped at least 3 not being quick enough to get them of reef I was trying hard to balance putting enough pressure on to keep them out of reef without ripping the hook’s they have such soft mouths. My mate who was with me who was new to fishing caught around half a dozen herring.

Back to conspicuous beach that arvo for final fish of the quick trip. At 5.30pm I have a massive run on a full herring I had cast out into the surf and before long I was onto yet again but this salmon was even bigger than the last every bit of 10 min fight up and down the beach and it was landed and the trip was over.

We cleaned all fish and distributed across friends & family as these fish do not keep well. I was rather impressed with the taste of salmon, prepared correctly ie.bled.

Sorry this report is a little long! and photos are kinda shitty.

Lowza

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