choad Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 Hello fellow raiders. I just returned from a weekend down south near ulladulla. The plan was to fish rock and lake with beach as a fallback option. With the southerly change, rock conditions were too rough. I fished beach on saturday and sunday . Saturday morning, woke up to a rainy cold sunrise after the southerly moved in. Hit the southern end of the beach thinking it may provide a bit of protection. With no time for a worm or nipper pump the day before, it was frozen pillies and prawns for bait. There was a nice gutter about 20 metres out. My dad dropped his gear and bucket, put a bait on and was in the water in 10 seconds flat. I still had to re-rig after my last rock session. Before i could tie on a sinker and swivel, dad was pumping on his twelve foot grinning like all his birthdays had come at once. I couldn't tie my line any quicker! He pulled out a salmon of around 40cm. For the next two hours, every cast produced a solid bite with salmon, tailor, bream and trevally beached. About 15 fish were kept that morning, several salmon and a smaller bream returned. The most interesting catch was a personal first... a blackfish on a half pilly! Went back in the afternoon. The weather just got worse during the day. The wind and waves picked up and I gave up after 1 hour of very uncomfortable fishing weather. Went back the next morning. The pictures below tell the story. Tailor were biting this morning. No salmon. Saw a few bream and whiting pulled out on beach worm by the guys next to us. Happy with the feed I scored yesterday, I decided to put on a metal and surf spin (another personal first). First cast, dropped the lure in close to the rocks at the southern end of the beach and turned the reel over. Within two seconds, felt head shakes with a decent bend on the rod. I’m on! Out comes a nice tailor of around 40-45cm. Throw it back in, same result! “I’m on!”. Fish spits the hook after 10 seconds. I pulled out about 5 tailor on the metal, lost even more. Things started getting quiet. I thought I’d throw a few more in and have a break. My mind started to drift when all of a sudden… BANG! I almost lost the rod! 30Lb fireline peeling off the reel, the 12foot bent over like a little trout rod, and my line heading right towards the rocky headland. I started running down the beach trying to pull it away from the rocks. The fish turned, stayed deep in the water the whole time, my imagination ran wild… Jewie? King? Please let me see it before it busts me off? 10 minutes later I beached the largest salmon I’ve ever caught. Over 5kg (cleaned) and 90cm. What a feeling. It dwarfed all the other fish. Enjoy the picks. Pulled out the blackfish from the day before just for the photo. some more pics. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dano1 Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 What a thumper of a sambo good bag of fish there mate!! Dan. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1975 Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 man thats a great effort!!!!! bet you felt over the moon. 1975 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tricks Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 thats a great bag there mate. im jealous jus looking at em Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mik Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 choad Mate great sessions there. You'd better stick that sambo in the records nominations for Lure records & also March fish of the month methinks. Well done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
james1990 Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 thats the biggest damn sambo ive ever seen well done CFD cheers james Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
houmous2001 Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 Top pics mate i caught one roughly the same size, they go hard huh. I got mine of a live smilie Well reported and nice to see a pic of the weapon to Ben nice salmon mate .. definately worth the hype Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest dicko1 Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 What a giant of a salmon!! must be stoked with that effort! I guess you will be eating fish for a while now!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrmoshe Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 Thumper salmon Choad and a great bag of fish. Yes, definitely should be entered into the records section as well as FOTM. I guess we know where you'll be heading next outing down that way. Cheers, Pete. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flightmanager Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 Great report Choad , this is the kind of fishing day most of us dream about , but rarely have !! Sometimes crap weather equals lots of fish ! Ross Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
netic Posted March 19, 2007 Share Posted March 19, 2007 Mate that is one awesome session...well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
frankp Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 awesome weekend. well done on the catch. definitly a FOTM contender. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flattieman Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 (edited) That's HUGE! 90cm salmon... what an absolute ripper! Sounds like two days of HOT beach fishing - awesome mixed bag. Gotta love the South Coast beaches! Flattieman. Edited March 20, 2007 by Flattieman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Martin Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 Nice haul of fish, well done Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveD Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 Thats just unreal, the whole catch, talk bout a nice couple of days of fishing, not to mention the salmon. Should last ya a while, but congrats in all regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
out n about Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 that one big salmon, well done on your catch mate... good to hear although the weather was bad, you still ended up with a nice catch Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CR@ZY OS@M@ Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 thats one hell of a session,good size sambo mate. well done Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KINGvirgin Posted March 20, 2007 Share Posted March 20, 2007 (edited) GREAT EFFORT mate! Is it just me but have those 2 thumper bream/trevally? ( in the middle and at the bottom in the pic) slipped under the radar.....?? check the size of the em!!!!!!!!!!!!!! must be some good nutrients in the water down there! Edited March 20, 2007 by KINGvirgin Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
choad Posted March 21, 2007 Author Share Posted March 21, 2007 GREAT EFFORT mate! Is it just me but have those 2 thumper bream/trevally? ( in the middle and at the bottom in the pic) slipped under the radar.....?? check the size of the em!!!!!!!!!!!!!! must be some good nutrients in the water down there! yeah, nice bream (below) and trevally (middle). apparently some 40+cm whiting were also being pulled the week before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KINGvirgin Posted March 21, 2007 Share Posted March 21, 2007 yeah, nice bream (below) and trevally (middle). apparently some 40+cm whiting were also being pulled the week before. that trevally is a monster and that bream is healthy too! ( did u measure them?) i love the SC it is a fishing paradise! whereabouts were u fishing , i am down in those parts on a regular basis Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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