South West Salmon Trip
1050 km of driving, a carton of Wife Bashers, a couple of good mates, not enough sleep, some light flick gear and cold, clear water can only mean a south west salmon trip.
Hearing of salmon everywhere down south, me, Hoookd and the "Unknown Weed Warrior - he can not be named for fear of getting in the shiiite with his mistress........but he is a well known FW member who can really put the wood on a good clump of seaweed......" headed off early Sat morning to get into a few. We arrived at Cheynes at lunchtime Saturday to calls of "its been going off mate" by the locals.........
Well, after a full arvo and 4 hours the next morning of fishing, a LOT of casting, only one fish and less than 2 hours until we had to head back to Perth on Sunday, there was general dissent amongst the team.........the weed warrior had almot given up and suggested we head home early and Hoookd taking a VERY long time changing lures and looking generally disinterestedin fishing and very interested in the last of the stubbies............but we plugged on regardless and then the Salmon finally arrived for our last hour of the trip, with everyone landing a few nice fish each including a nice double hook-up and a few great hits in the shallows after sight casting to fish. That last hour made the trip more than worthwhile.
Great fun on 10 lb braid and 2500 Certates, really no need to go any heavier on Salmon as we subdued them reasonably well. We only got a few photos as the action was pretty hot when they were on......all fish were released to swim another day and hopefully provide fun for some other punters.
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.
Lamby
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Lol, great last pic
Lol, great last pic
beau
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That last pic is
That last pic is Dazzling!
Am I close? Lol
JohnF
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Miles off
Miles off Beau........well.......ummmmmm.....ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh...............haha.
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.
beau
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The smile gives it
The smile gives it away!
Just realised how much of a fw lurker I am, I shouldn' have been able to guess that so easily lol!
I'm heading down next week, hopefully we find a few more fish than you did!
JohnF
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Just a matter of being in the
Just a matter of being in the right place beau.......you only need an hour of action to make it worthwhile.
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.
beau
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Thats right, the hour of
Thats right, the hour of action I havent had in over a year! Did the locals say Cheynes in particular was going off?
J_doggy
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haha
Classic last pic :)
Jim
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It may be just me, but that
It may be just me, but that last photo looks photoshopped for sure.
At least you got some. Cant wait to give it a bash myself next week.
Bend over
Faulkner Family
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sounds like it was worth the
sounds like it was worth the trip down. love the gollywog look in the last with the yellow fro. nice fish in the pics
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
MattMiller
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Nice work
can't wait till they turn up in the SW in numbers not just the South Coast.
southcity104
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brute salmon!!
I spose thats the difference between unsuccessful fishermen and successful ones. Determination pays off!!
Well done. Those 2500 spinners would have been humming!!
"Its a life style job"
crasny1
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Great effort boys
John yours is a solid fish IMO and beats the gollywogs easily. Dont know of any FW members with a black face and bleached blond afro????
"I would like to die on Mars. Just not on impact!!" _ Elon Musk
kane
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nice one
some good sized ones there, shame theyre not a bit tastier ;)....good cray bait or cat food and definately great fun to catch on light gear!
Gooooone Fishin!
Markie
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hahaha swan draupht went down
hahaha swan draupht went down great.
weed warrior ohhh classicccc.
no mention of the lucky hat? hahaha
good fun good company :)
Marko
glastronomic
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Did almost the same trip,
Did almost the same trip, 1269km's rond scenic trip to Albany monday (on my own( spirit of the moment).
Wanted to reach Bremer bay, but ran out of daylight.
Tuesday morning @ Salmon holes beach; it went off!
10.30am and the herring were on the beach being murdered by the huge school of Salmon who went for everything that was in the water/surf!
Went on most of the day and was very exciting indeed!
Luckily there were some times that the onslaught abated and there was some time to catch our breath!
Salmon fins were sticking out of the sand everywhere plus a great many were relesed.
2 of mine were to badly hooked to be released succesfully and came with me.
quality accomodation a must after a big day fighting the salmon beasts!
What a great time and place to be!
the steep way back up to the carpark lugging big salmon bodies!
This morning the weather turned into rain so came back to restock and wait till the sun comes out and I will go back!
chrisp
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Lol
The artist's impression of the "angler formerly know as" is uncanny.