richard_pdc Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Went out on Thursday at 630pm stop at balmoral pick up some yakkas and when to several spots for no luck decide to drive over to Clifton on the way we saw massive boils in the water and hundreds of birds chasing the schools decided to stop and have a go as soon as we started casting several boats decided to drive straight down the middle of the schools so instead of getting angry we decided to come back to middle harbour and fish for some eating fish as soon as we turned into the cove of balmoral there was several different schools of fish busting up so we started doing a drift, casting soft plastics and metal lures nearly every cast we hooked up it was the best fishing session we have had in a while . The Salmon were at least 5 to 6 kg 700mm long the largest went 855mm we only kept one and the tailor were 500mm long we only kept three little ones for bait . Also caught several large silver trevs and two small rats kings. We watched a guy with a fly rod hook up several large salmon which looked a heap of fun .it took him several minutes to land each one . We even had ET boats chasing the same school . The best part about it was that every body knew what to do, drift from one side to the other and then drive around again . I must have lost at least 5 lures on 6 pound line chasing those big salmon expensive day but well worth it . We ended finishing the night in middle harbour but could not get past all the yellowtail and the big slimes in the harbour Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Murphdog Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Awesome, I was out yesterday got a few squid, a rat king and had a good battle with a bonito on light gear. Good fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SargeRX8 Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Top stuff and they sound like some big salmon too. What kind of lures were they taking? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Rev Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Well done - the harbour has come alive. I've been out the past few days and it has been great fishing. Those Salmon are big- I'm sure lots of fun Cheers The Rev Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard_pdc Posted January 19, 2013 Author Share Posted January 19, 2013 They take a small white glow white steel lure in 5 grams size Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wolfman Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Hi Richard well done,some people have no clue had that happen to me heaps of times.If you don't mind where were the slimys. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostproperty Posted January 19, 2013 Share Posted January 19, 2013 Nice report mate, where bouts did you get the slimies? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
richard_pdc Posted January 19, 2013 Author Share Posted January 19, 2013 Just past the four knot zone opposite clotarf and anchor as close as you can to the boat yard and just burley up or just go straight to the centurion wreck it's a shore thing but much larger in size Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lostproperty Posted January 20, 2013 Share Posted January 20, 2013 Cheers mate hopefully there are some around next weekend, big slimies catch big kings Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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