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I've seen stacks of salmon mooching around inside the harbour so it makes sense that there would be plenty on the beaches too. I think that when it comes to salmon it's always good to have a strongly scented bait like a fillet or pilchard, unless it's live of course. Nice work!

I have to get myself there for a bit of that action, that looks awesome! Good work!

Hit the harbour for a lazy 7am start well after sun up. Was planning on mostly luring but I caught a few yakkas to kick off, just in case things were tough. There was heaps of bait and I found surface action pretty easily. The schools were a strange mix of bonito, aussie salmon and kings. I tried big and small metal slices, stick baits on worm hooks, xraps and a few livies, trying each thing repeatedly over a few hours. Picked up a few bonnies and a big salmon on the slices and a rat king and more xos salmon on the livies. Of the 6 livies 4 took fish, so it was worth picking them up. I had lots of follows from all sorts of fish, including what I think was a mack tuna on the lures but they were being pretty fussy and they only really wanted to eat livies. Anyway, I had a fun morning out for a few hours, only keeping a few bonnies for baits for later. Can't think of a better way to spend a hot morning than on the water!

Hi Raiders, Went for a few days at Lake Glenbawn last week in an attempt to catch my first Bass, a bit of a nemesis fish that has alluded me until now. Thanks to some of the reports posted here and a few tips from tackle stores I finally put a few runs on the board after a lot of trying. Fish were fairly hard to come by and I threw a hell of a lot of casts before finally coming up with the goods but I'm glad I kept at it. All fish were caught on spinnerbaits in either purple/black or red/black combinations 1/4 and 1/2 oz fished in shallow bays right up in the very back of the bays or in standing timber. Gear was light threadline, 6lb braid with 10lb fluorocarbon leader. I saw a lot of fish schooling up around the 30ft mark around timber in the sunken forests but they seemed very shut down and wouldn't bite anything despite repeated attempts with spinnerbaits, bibless minows, soft plastics, deep divers and pretty much any lure you can think of. I'm assuming these would be bass that school up in the deeper water once the sun gets a bit too high but having never fished an impoundment in my life before and being a bass newbie I'd be interested to hear from anyone who might be more knowledgable than me as to if they would be bass and if so what you do to get them to strike when they are in this kind of mood? First bass ever was 37cm and had a big dent behind it's head where something must have had a go at it in the past, others were a bit smaller but still in the low 30's. Al fish were returned to the water after a quick photo to go on to become bigger and better next time. Cheers, D