Hi guys,
I am planning on heading down to Meroo National Park, just south of Ulludulla next week for a few days camping and mostly FISHING!
I am a keen fisho, but amateur at best. I went down and fished this very spot last easter, in search of a good beach Salmon or Tailor.
I had researched and learnt all I could about the best ways to catch these guys. No luck on the salmon in the end, caught a nice flatty and a few little ones, a dart, a small trevally and a rock fish of some description…and a tone of bream from Meroo lake..(thoroughly recommend!)
I can’t quite attribute my failure for the salmon though.. I was running two types of rigs.
A paternoster rig with a 2x 2/0 baitholder hook and BM 2oz sinker with enough trace to stop it all tangling up.
The second rig was a simple running ball sinker 1oz-2oz with 45cm leader into a 2/0 baitholder.
Both sets were baited with cut segments of pillies, I did try 3/0 ganged hooks, but never got a nibble… Plus I could never set the hooks right, and as we are camping, the further the trip progressed the softer the pillies became(ice kept melting), they eventually just fell of the hooks.
I had spotted a school of salmon about 10m offshore hunting through the waves, cast out into the pack, and not a bite.
Similarly, I attempted lures into the same school and not a thing. They were definitely salmon because I met a dude later that avo and he said he had caught two whoppers at that same spot! Bugger!!
I fished the gutters, the run-in and out tide, the deep holes and the rips…
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I have another 3 days next week to get them, and I am not coming home empty handed!
Cheers,
Liam