Another Salmon Post

After a quick Salmon sesh on the Monday of the ANZAC weekend, I was keen to get out for another crack.  A call to a good fisho mate and we had a plan for Saturday.

Launched at the CPBA ramp at 7am and headed south to where I found a school last week.  This part of the sound was pretty quiet first up and after a squidding session on the flats and a bot of sounding around, decided to change plans and headed over towards Garden Island.  The it happened - saw the boats, the birds, and then the fish - we were on.

Surface strikes were spectacular, nothing watching like the open gob of a Salmon about to demolish your surface lure with half a dozen of his mates trying to muscle in for a bite.

There were times the sounder was completely blocked out with Salmon - the following pic gives you an idea (not the best one as I need two hands to take a screen shot and usually they were busy with a salmon on the end of the line!)

Lost count of the number of fish but all good solid specimens - all released in good condition.  

My mate then decided to tick Salmon on fly off off his bucket list.  I do admire his persistence as the fish were definitely turned on to the larger lures and the baitfish they were regurgitating looked like pillies.  Watching me pull in four or five fish while he was trying must have been a bit frustrating.  He finally managed to hook one after changing to a popper fly and managed an exceptional capture on 8wt.

We were on a school closer to the Naval base, looking around there seemed to be groups around Woodies, Mewstones, and the Northern end of Garden Island.  

After deciding to call it quits and making a move back to the ramp, we were in for one last treat.  We came across a pod of dolphins around a school of Salmon so out came my 8wt fly.  The salmon were balled up around the boat and it was a spectacular sight and it was just us.  I did manage to hook one on fly but alas it wasn't to be.

And finally kudos to the weather - it was a fantastic morning to be on the sound.

Fantastic arm stretching day.


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 It was certainly the ideal

Sun, 2015-05-03 20:06

 It was certainly the ideal time to experiment with different gear. Awesome to see the schools explode out of the water at times.

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What do think this weather will do

Sun, 2015-05-03 21:46

Do you think this weather will have any effect on the schools in the sound.

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My opiniom

Sun, 2015-05-03 22:20

my opinion is they will scatter to the outer reefs until the water clears up than come back on for young and old. Its a weird year i found ( from personal experience and reports) they are coming on later in the day and venturing closer to shore when the wind backs down? I could be 100% wrong just observations 

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