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.
Colin Hay
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.
GusG
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
did you see them swimming by
did you see them swimming by or just got them blind?
Rodrat
Mako
They kept chasing bait fish in the area, they would swim by every so often.
mako magic
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
Mako
Saw about 8 or 10 at a time, no huge shoals.
rainbow
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`!!!