You might be lucky and score some Aussie salmon. Use metals in the 40-65g range, Spanyid Raiders, Halco Twistys etc. but other than metals, any lure with a sardine / mulie look will do it. Or real mulies, unweighted, but of course these can't be cast as far.
You can stand on the dunes and spot the dark schools coming through. Last year we were unlucky (in April) as they stayed off shore about 400m - hundreds of them, jumping out of the water as well. Spoke to another bloke who drove down a fortnight before us (start of April) who'd had them almost at his feet on the beach.
Great fun on a light-ish rod. Watch out for the rays traversing the beach.
DON'T deliberately try for the big rays that swim right up to your feet, the locals will tar and feather you then have you left sitting on the island. They are a tourist attraction and can be hand fed.
You haven't said beach or boat fishing..
From the beach anything over an 8 foot beach rod will do to catch salmon [if they turn up] and herring or a good tailor down the Boranup end of the beach.
For offshore, any of you normal boating gear because you can catch everything from whiting to sambos and dhuies from 50 etres off the beach to outside the reef.
Yeah, I should point out I meant 'watch out for the rays' so you can avoid them, not catch them!
As for unweighted mulie or lure...it depends. If the salmon are in, you can sight-cast over them and then bring the lure through the school. But if close enough, either will do.
Another thing...when the weed is rotting on the beach and maggots are around, Hamelin is absolutely alive with hundreds of herring right up on the water's edge.
Stuey
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Date Joined: 04/07/11
I'll be down there in
I'll be down there in April.
You might be lucky and score some Aussie salmon. Use metals in the 40-65g range, Spanyid Raiders, Halco Twistys etc. but other than metals, any lure with a sardine / mulie look will do it. Or real mulies, unweighted, but of course these can't be cast as far.
You can stand on the dunes and spot the dark schools coming through. Last year we were unlucky (in April) as they stayed off shore about 400m - hundreds of them, jumping out of the water as well. Spoke to another bloke who drove down a fortnight before us (start of April) who'd had them almost at his feet on the beach.
Great fun on a light-ish rod. Watch out for the rays traversing the beach.
bonzi
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Date Joined: 05/12/11
well if not at my feet might
well if not at my feet might have to take the kayaks just in case
carnarvonite
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Date Joined: 24/07/07
Rays
DON'T deliberately try for the big rays that swim right up to your feet, the locals will tar and feather you then have you left sitting on the island. They are a tourist attraction and can be hand fed.
You haven't said beach or boat fishing..
From the beach anything over an 8 foot beach rod will do to catch salmon [if they turn up] and herring or a good tailor down the Boranup end of the beach.
For offshore, any of you normal boating gear because you can catch everything from whiting to sambos and dhuies from 50 etres off the beach to outside the reef.
bonzi
Posts: 24
Date Joined: 05/12/11
I will be beach fishing and
I will be beach fishing and maybe taking the kayaks. so when beach fishing go un weighted or lure?
Stuey
Posts: 23
Date Joined: 04/07/11
Yeah, I should point out I
Yeah, I should point out I meant 'watch out for the rays' so you can avoid them, not catch them!
As for unweighted mulie or lure...it depends. If the salmon are in, you can sight-cast over them and then bring the lure through the school. But if close enough, either will do.
Another thing...when the weed is rotting on the beach and maggots are around, Hamelin is absolutely alive with hundreds of herring right up on the water's edge.