Australian salmon season 2016

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Re: Australian salmon season 2016

Post by Wolly Bugger » Thu Jul 28, 2016 2:51 pm

Went to portland and birds were diving off the breakwall, so we casted lures in the hope, and the only thing to hit our lures were the birds.

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Re: Australian salmon season 2016

Post by 4liters » Thu Jul 28, 2016 2:55 pm

Gannets are pretty good fun on light gear though
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Re: Australian salmon season 2016

Post by Basti » Thu Jul 28, 2016 3:09 pm

or even on salmon gear. have you hooked one of the buggers before?

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Re: Australian salmon season 2016

Post by drewb » Thu Jul 28, 2016 3:48 pm

My Dad's missus hooked a seagull in the bay one day, that was interesting... trebles everywhere.

Agree about the swell though, it'd be nice if it dropped below 6ft once in a while.

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Re: Australian salmon season 2016

Post by 4liters » Thu Jul 28, 2016 6:15 pm

Basti wrote:or even on salmon gear. have you hooked one of the buggers before?
Yeah, took a lure I was trolling for tuna. It was the first one I'd caught and wasn't sure how to safely unhook the ******.

Long story short, the cuts on my hand got infected and took over a month to heal fully :rofl:
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Re: Australian salmon season 2016

Post by re-tyred » Thu Jul 28, 2016 7:22 pm

I have been renovating , so not much fishing. Did notice the Seals beating hell out of the Salmon last week while we surveyed the lakes Bar.

Regarding birds taking lures. I had a pelican grab one once. That was a rather difficult job to quietly get it alongside and unhook without damage to him or me. I came off second best. Fed him a fish afterwards. We were mates after that.
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Re: Australian salmon season 2016

Post by Tackleberry » Thu Jul 28, 2016 10:32 pm

re-tyred wrote:I have been renovating , so not much fishing.Did notice the Seals beating hell out of the Salmon last weekwhile we surveyed the lakes Bar.

Regarding birds taking lures. I had a pelican grab one once. That was a rather difficult job to quietly get it alongside and unhook without damage to him or me. I came off second best. Fed him a fish afterwards. We were mates after that.
must have been the day i seen you at the ramp i was watching that too but

1/2 an hour earlier but the ones i seen were small less about a foot long .

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Re: Australian salmon season 2016

Post by drewb » Mon Aug 01, 2016 8:53 am

Headed down to Gunna Saturday morning with pretty low expectations given my recent history there, but high tide was around sunrise and a northerly wind at least the conditions were in my favor, although there was still 6ft of swell.

Got to the beach about 7 and saw a bait fisho dragging a fish up the beach as I was walking down the dunes so decided to have a couple of casts in the first gutter. Hooked up fourth cast but dropped it in the shore break.

It was quiet for the next hour or so, by that time I was well up the other end of the beach when I found a small patch of fish. Landed 5 and dropped another in the space of about 30 minutes, including 3 fish in 6 casts. The biggest would've been mid 50's and the smallest around 40, so all not bad fish.

Went quiet after that, got back to the car around 9:30. Didn't see another lure fisherman on the beach which was a bit surprising given the conditions.
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Re: Australian salmon season 2016

Post by Basti » Mon Aug 01, 2016 9:18 am

I think all the lure fishos are waiting for someone else to post a report. Which means that reports are thin on the ground. Well done on giving it a go anyway.

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Re: Australian salmon season 2016

Post by Brett » Mon Aug 01, 2016 10:17 am

Basti wrote:I think all the lure fishos are waiting for someone else to post a report. Which means that reports are thin on the ground. Well done on giving it a go anyway.

Most of the regulars have given up on gunna this yr, it's been that bad.

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