Aussie Salmon Landbased @ Camp Cove

[reubs]

Afternoon all,

After a busy week I'm once again stuck in the office on a weekend however I managed to get out during the week for a flick with a day off for thursday and wednesday night looking good it was time to hit the water! So last week I wanted to have a crack at some salmon or tailor off the beach so decided to take a trip to north narrabeen with no results..However on wednesday night after a bit of googling and a bit of a read through the interwebs camp cove just inside south head had me feeling like I might be onto a winner. I read quite a funny post on this forum about this cove and its little sister nudie beach next door but seeing as though it was a weeknight figured it would probably be quiet and it takes a while to get to from parramatta!.. I took one of my friends out fishing for her second time ever and decided to soak some pillies whilst fishing two lighter rods with worms to find something in a bit closer to shore.

The pillies were out on 2 setups, one was my 12ft beach rod (nothing fancy just an onsale shimano rod and pre-spooled reel) with a fiarly large round ball sinker tied to a pre-made 3/0 snelled 3gang hook setup off the shelf, and the other being a 7ft 6-8kg mojiko + 6000 reel from BLAH BLAH BLAH with 15lb main line, no sinker and the same hook setup with both sets of hooks holding onto a pillie . the other two rods were a 2-4kg 6"6' jarvis walker oldie that ive havd for years! with a force-ten(yep big quality gear here) reel with 8lb line and a 40lb black wire trace with clip (because i was too lazy to put on some mono) then onto a small bloodworm hook, and the same setup on another 6-8kilo 7" mojiko special..

there was nothing to be had on the "light" gear on the north side so I went down to the south side and cast close to the rocks only to find that it was too close and the rocks were hungry for hooks and sinkers..

As I went to check my pillie I noticed that the line was slack and having had a few pillies go MIA on me I figured that had been the case and it was an empty set of hooks i was going to be bringing back in...and then there was some weight on it that felt a bit like a rock....but then it made a run and i know for a fact that rocks dont run and I was indeed onto something.. Scanning the waters surface to see where my line was going in the dark was a bit fun and I couldnt see a thing and then this nice sized salmon made a break for the surface and jumped out of the water only to be towed in and beached by myself shortly after.. A nice fish and the only catch for the night...not a bad effort for doing nothing at all I thought, It was cleaned shortly thereafter and its guts were thrown out for burley but not much else was going on.. I spotted a small arrow squid hanging around one of the markers so threw a budget jig at him but he wasnt having anything to do with it.. Anyway it was a nice quiet night and something came home for the pot and to share with the neighbours!

may we all have tight lines!

Reubs

[Spooooled]

Afternoon all,

After a busy week I'm once again stuck in the office on a weekend however I managed to get out during the week for a flick with a day off for thursday and wednesday night looking good it was time to hit the water! So last week I wanted to have a crack at some salmon or tailor off the beach so decided to take a trip to north narrabeen with no results..However on wednesday night after a bit of googling and a bit of a read through the interwebs camp cove just inside south head had me feeling like I might be onto a winner. I read quite a funny post on this forum about this cove and its little sister nudie beach next door but seeing as though it was a weeknight figured it would probably be quiet and it takes a while to get to from parramatta!.. I took one of my friends out fishing for her second time ever and decided to soak some pillies whilst fishing two lighter rods with worms to find something in a bit closer to shore.

The pillies were out on 2 setups, one was my 12ft beach rod (nothing fancy just an onsale shimano rod and pre-spooled reel) with a fiarly large round ball sinker tied to a pre-made 3/0 snelled 3gang hook setup off the shelf, and the other being a 7ft 6-8kg mojiko + 6000 reel from BLAH BLAH BLAH with 15lb main line, no sinker and the same hook setup with both sets of hooks holding onto a pillie . the other two rods were a 2-4kg 6"6' jarvis walker oldie that ive havd for years! with a force-ten(yep big quality gear here) reel with 8lb line and a 40lb black wire trace with clip (because i was too lazy to put on some mono) then onto a small bloodworm hook, and the same setup on another 6-8kilo 7" mojiko special..

there was nothing to be had on the "light" gear on the north side so I went down to the south side and cast close to the rocks only to find that it was too close and the rocks were hungry for hooks and sinkers..

As I went to check my pillie I noticed that the line was slack and having had a few pillies go MIA on me I figured that had been the case and it was an empty set of hooks i was going to be bringing back in...and then there was some weight on it that felt a bit like a rock....but then it made a run and i know for a fact that rocks dont run and I was indeed onto something.. Scanning the waters surface to see where my line was going in the dark was a bit fun and I couldnt see a thing and then this nice sized salmon made a break for the surface and jumped out of the water only to be towed in and beached by myself shortly after.. A nice fish and the only catch for the night...not a bad effort for doing nothing at all I thought, It was cleaned shortly thereafter and its guts were thrown out for burley but not much else was going on.. I spotted a small arrow squid hanging around one of the markers so threw a budget jig at him but he wasnt having anything to do with it.. Anyway it was a nice quiet night and something came home for the pot and to share with the neighbours!

may we all have tight lines!

Reubs

Solid salmon!

[quintrex480]

Nice one mate! Camp cove is an awesome place to take the family, I've also done pretty well there squidding land based also. And as for thay beach next door, stay away, especially on weekends