kiwibrown Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Hi Guys Managed to start fishing at 9:30am on Saturday morning in the harbour (amazing what limiting the Friday post work beers can do). I had a light surf rod out with a bigger bait on just in case and had the light spinning gear in a bit closer using squid and pilchards. No bites for a while but then landed a good bream (37cm - looked a lot bigger at the time). Pretty tough negotiating the rocks but managed to get him up with my leader frayed to pieces.Soon after got a good trevally which i guess was around 30cm. A school of small ones came through and i got another 4 or 5. Those small ones are quite tricky to hook. I got what i thought was another trevally bite but once hooked raced off with my line. After a good 10 minutes of me jumping and running along the rocks to try and keep the fish out of all the submerged rocks it jumped (in front of 3 boats full of guys fishing) and i could see it was a good salmon. Unbelievably it didn't bust off and a neighbouring fisher lady saw the action and netted it for me otherwise i would never have laned it. Just an incredible fight and i was pretty happy to land it. I have caught tonnnes of them in NZ but it feels more of a challenge to get one in the harbour. Measured 60cm Needless to say i got all the fish on the small rod which kept the heart in the mouth when you look at the rocky area i was fishing. Hopefully might be a good summer season cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thefisherman6784 Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Great haul mate I'm heading to the beach with sydfisher today. Can't wait to get down and finally wet a line at the beach Anyway, great fish mate and that salmon would of put up a great fight Kept or released the fish? Hope they make a great feed if so Cheers thefisherman6784 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwibrown Posted September 28, 2014 Author Share Posted September 28, 2014 thanks Fisherman. The salmon went mental. All released unharmed. I'm waiting for my mate OZtyke to mend his broken foor then we'll be back on the beach too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
General Zod Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Nice mix of fish you got. That sambo would of been tricky off the rocks with that light outfit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FishingGuy Posted September 28, 2014 Share Posted September 28, 2014 Great work Mate!!!! Cheers, FishingGuy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chokpa Posted September 29, 2014 Share Posted September 29, 2014 nice! what kind of rig were you using? Great fish Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwibrown Posted September 29, 2014 Author Share Posted September 29, 2014 thanks guys just using a simple running sinker rig and small cubes of pilchard (got the bream and salmon on pilly and all the trevally on squid). There are heaps of trevally around at the moment. We got a few off Balmoral wharf the week before and i hooked a really big one that took me around 2 pylons and busted off. Felt really heavy. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bede Posted October 11, 2014 Share Posted October 11, 2014 nice catch salmon are great value when they start leaping hey. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Novicefisherman Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Not a bad spot if its the one I'm thinking of. is it still messy down there. I took a bag of rubbish from there last time i was there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iamthecowgodmoo Posted October 13, 2014 Share Posted October 13, 2014 Well done on a great session. Great looking conditions too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kiwibrown Posted October 14, 2014 Author Share Posted October 14, 2014 cheers guys yeah there is still a fair bit of rubbish in amongst the rocks. Get the feeling that there is the chance of a really awesome fish at that spot. I assume kings would come reasonaby close in past the rocks... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Novicefisherman Posted October 14, 2014 Share Posted October 14, 2014 Seen 1 king taken there only. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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