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DaveTheBoy

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What a frustrating game fishing can be at times. Right now there are hundreds and hundreds of salmon roaming our beaches, they're just barely feeding at all! At times they've been schooled up so thick that their backs are showing out of the water!! It's quite a sight, though frustrating to catch. I've tried almost everything, even dropping down to ultra light gear & 3" tiny plastics. I'm still getting one or two per session on a small metal slice along with some tailor, but those fish are never caught from the "main school" of fish running the beach. It's quite a sight to see a wave form with hundreds of salmon looking at you! If anyone has any ideas let me know, in the mean time I'm just enjoying being out there!

 

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Hey Dave, I’m thinking of travelling up there. Which beaches would give me the best chance of coming across a school ?

I’m not seeing any down here on central coast beaches, though I have caught a few stragglers on bait.

 

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13 hours ago, Volitan said:

Hey Dave, I’m thinking of travelling up there. Which beaches would give me the best chance of coming across a school ?

I’m not seeing any down here on central coast beaches, though I have caught a few stragglers on bait.

 

 Stockton has probably been best on the north side, also around Merewether & Dudley & Belmont to the south.

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small sinker/swivel/short trace/small fly.....try to match the size of the small glassies or whitebait that they are feeding on...a deceiver is a type of saltwater fly...small baitfish profile...the other way is to use a clear bubble float that you can squeeze to let water in them for casting weight followed by the fly or small unweighted plastic..rick

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