Metro Catches Pictured: Salmon (photo courtesy of Salmon School Tracker 2016) While there are still plenty of salmon being caught from the southern rock walls, the big news coming from the stones this week is the number of pink snapper and mulloway caught. Pinks ranging from 4 to 8kg and mulloway to 20kg were landed [...]
Metro Catches Pictured: Salmon (photo courtesy of Charlie Fuller) Amazing scenes were observed in the Swan River at the weekend when dozens of fishers were lined shoulder-to-shoulder between the Old Traffic Bridge and the Leeuwin Boat Ramp targeting big schools of salmon that entered the lower reaches of the metropolitan river system. Salmon were also [...]
Metro Catches Pictured: Western Australian salmon Big schools of salmon remain in the vicinity of Garden Island, Carnac Island and Stragglers and there have been smaller schools encountered within Cockburn Sound. The boats that have been travelling within a mile or so of Rottnest Island have also been find schooling salmon and there [...]
Metro Catches Pictured: Western Australian salmon (photo courtesy of Jim Tarry) Recent catches suggest that this year’s salmon run is going to be one of the strongest in years. During the past week, big schools turned up along the coast and within range of fishers armed with a variety of baits and lures [...]
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Metro Catches Pictured: Skippy A big salmon school encountered about 10 nautical miles south of Rottnest Island may suggest that the metropolitan salmon run is imminent. Several salmon were caught from the northern and southern rock walls during the week and there were the odd 3 to 7kg fish picked up from [...]
Metro Catches Pictured: Pink snapper Spanish mackerel continue to be caught within Cockburn Sound, along the back of Five Fathom Bank, near Rottnest Island and behind Three Mile Reef. The 8 to 20kg mackerel have been responding well to trolled minnows in the 2m and 8m varieties. Bonito are still about the inshore areas in [...]
Metro Catches Pictured: Shark mackerel Big schools of bonito are appearing most mornings and afternoons at North Mole. Bibbed minnows and metal lures have been effective on the bonito. Some of the other metropolitan rock platforms and jetties are also being graced by the presence of the schooling bonito. Spanish mackerel are also being [...]
Metro Catches Pictured: Spanish mackerel (photo courtesy of Donna Rathbone) Big schools of bonito are appearing close to some of the metropolitan rock walls, groynes and jetties and their presence has brought spanish mackerel within casting distance at times. An estimated 12kg mackerel was caught by a shore-based fisher at one of the northern [...]