Spring straggler solo salmon
With the beautiful 30 degree weather, and light winds forecast for last night, I knocked off work early and headed down to my local... north metro beach. My aim was to sit there for several hours, drinking a six pack.. with the possibility of a tailor or mulloway an added extra. Shortly after it went dark, I looked up to check my rod, as I had been doing very regularly.. and realised my rod wasn't in the holder.. and was being dragged towards the water. I scrambled to my feet, grabbed the rod and quickly realised I was on to something fairly weighty. After a short tussle, I had this big boy on the sand... a freaking spring salmon! Must be a straggler.. and perhaps he was flying solo cos I got nothing for the rest of the night. Anyway he was quickly dispatched, gutted, bled and put into ice slurry in the esky. I can tell you it was very good eating indeed once cut into chunks, breadcrumbed and shallow fried.
Auslobster
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Nice one, Hobie!
What a pleasant surprise, and must've been a nice night weather-wise!
TonyT
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good fish there fella, well
good fish there fella, well done..
were you soaking mulies with ganged hooks?
soupster51
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Nice
Sounds like a great way to spend a sunset. Six pack and fish, what more could you ask for?
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Hobie-Wan
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Cheers guys. Tony, I was
Cheers guys. Tony, I was using some human-grade sardines from the fish markets that I had in the freezer for ages. On ganged hooks with standard beach paternoster with star sinker.
saltatrix
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Get in the smoker 2
Get in the smoker
2 tablespoons of "Brown" sugar
1 Tablespoon of "Salt"
do 4 B SUgar and 2 Salt if you have more
put fillets in bag with mix and shake
sit fillets in gladwrap to let the coating draw in
Chuck in smoker with dark timber in and smoke to you yum love long time
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Faulkner Family
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would have been a nice
would have been a nice surprise to see that come in. it must have got lost somewhere along the way
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TonyT
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cheers hobie wan, i feel the
cheers hobie wan, i feel the force is strong with you,haha
Digger01
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Sounds like a perfect
Sounds like a perfect evening to me..
Not sure if its just the pic, as it is pretty dark, but I thought you only said you got one - is that a salmon and a mullet in the same photo...??
Hobie-Wan
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Hhahah. Buisness up the
Hhahah. Buisness up the front, party round the back!