Saltwater Flyrodders

Thanks guys. Well at least I still have a few clousers and deceivers on me so I should be set for the Salmon then. Looking to head out early next week and have a shot at them.

Will report back if I have any luck

gimme a holla- I might be keen to head out for a looksie.

I know a couple spots that are pretty decent performers.

Hi Guys,

I'm not quite into fly just yet.
But I heard there were some salmon between trigg and scarborough yesterday.
I went down around 4pm till dusk and caught a couple (only pups) probably around a kilo (caught on spin gear)
Several herring also, and big schools of large mullet right in tight.

Most were caught in fairly close, probably 20-30m or so.
Light easterly winds, too bad I haven't got into fly just yet would have been a perfect evening for it I recon.

Has anyone caught mullet on fly?
They were pretty accessible, but i assume you would need a bread type pattern or something.
Excuse my naivety.
With good schools of what would have been 1kg sized fish, Id assume they would put up a decent fight on light fly.

Thanks Mat....need all the help I can get. Are you about next week?

mat uchino wrote:gimme a holla- I might be keen to head out for a looksie.

I know a couple spots that are pretty decent performers.

Nathan Busio wrote:Has anyone caught mullet on fly?
They were pretty accessible, but i assume you would need a bread type pattern or something.
Excuse my naivety.
With good schools of what would have been 1kg sized fish, Id assume they would put up a decent fight on light fly.

Nathan,

You may need to start a new discussion about mullet. Your question is going to get lost amongst the salmon enthusiasm here ...

Cheers,
Graeme

Rick wrote:Thanks Mat....need all the help I can get. Are you about next week?

mat uchino wrote:gimme a holla- I might be keen to head out for a looksie.

I know a couple spots that are pretty decent performers.

Yep I'll be here- working Saturday but might be able to jag a few hours away from work monday-tuesday to scope out the early morning action.

Might even head down the MAC this arvo to see if there are any stragglers round the reef there.

mat uchino wrote:

Rick wrote:Thanks Mat....need all the help I can get. Are you about next week?

mat uchino wrote:gimme a holla- I might be keen to head out for a looksie.

I know a couple spots that are pretty decent performers.

Yep I'll be here- working Saturday but might be able to jag a few hours away from work monday-tuesday to scope out the early morning action.

Might even head down the MAC this arvo to see if there are any stragglers round the reef there.

Thanks Mat, Ill be Mobile from Monday morning onwards, possibly even Sunday arvo.

Pm contact details?...does this forum have a pm function?

Hi Rick
This weekend is a club field day. No doubt there will be a few guys chasing salmon around the place.

Just some feed back the salmon efforts to date.

Spent Monday and Tuesday mornings down at Woodmans point looking for salmon with no luck. There is heaps of bait about though, so I found that encouraging. Monday morning I went to that gyrone that juts out from the car park, along from woodman point view. Nice looking water and that's where I saw all the bait. There was some surface activity, but It looked to be small bonito, do we get them here?

Tuesday was at Woodmans again but off the marina wall down from the Café. Again very nice water with heaps of bait, but no activity. Talking to a couple of blokes fishing closer to shore in shallow water, mentioned they saw a large 10kg Snapper swim past them moments before I came buy. Land based snapper on fly?

Wednesday arvo after some domestic duties I caved to popularity and went to join the masses at North Mole. There were salmon everywhere and it was absolute mayhem. The guys hucking lures were getting twisted up by the marauding salmon schools, so I gave them some room. I found a spot at the tip just down from the lighthouse where I could cast over the shallow reef and over the drop off. Net result was almost a fish a cast for a very intense session. They loved the 2/0 deceiver, and I was treated to all kinds of big fish killing little fish hunting behaviour. My favourite is the out and in dive bomb, closely followed by the mouth agape surface charge down from 3m away. I had to give up early as landing the buggers in the afternoon swell was getting hectic, I was sodden from head to toe.

Anyhow I'm bloody happy to have finally cracked the land based Salmon thing here in WA.