Welcome Guest [Log In] [Register]
Welcome to Westfish. We hope you enjoy your visit.


You're currently viewing our forum as a guest. This means you are limited to certain areas of the board and there are some features you can't use or view. Mostly being secret fishing posts. If you join Westfish you'll be able to access member-only sections, and use many member-only features such as customizing your profile, sending personal messages to other anglers, and voting in polls. Registration is simple, fast, and completely free.

Members of this site mostly originate from Hotbite and since it's closure have created this forum to keep in touch with one another.


Join our community!


If you're already a member please log in to your account to access all of our features:

Username:   Password:
Add Reply
Salmon at Preston
Topic Started: Apr 16 2014, 10:48 AM (100 Views)
Chess Shark
Member Avatar
Spanish Mackerel
Yesterday I went down to Preston to finally fish, heading North about 5km along the beach to a likely gutter.
I heard that Bouvards was weeded out so fished the beach halfway from just before midday and was at it until sunset.
I managed to get some live herring and whiting later on for bait.
The highlight was a 4kg plus stray salmon that turned up at 3pm, and it was caught on a mulie.
The salmon went like a train and was a good fight even on 30lb braid given the amount of weed around.
I kept it in the shallows awhile to tire it out but that doesnt work as well for salmon.
So I ended up gritting my teeth and lugging the salmon and a mess of weed out of the water.
A few tailor were caught but only one was size.
I had a couple of decent runs around 4pm but the weed got in the way and I lost them.
The wind and weed picked up at sunset so I called it a day.
Attached to this post:
Attachments: 20140415_154500.jpg (3.87 MB)
Edited by Chess Shark, Apr 16 2014, 10:50 AM.
PB Black Bream 48cm, PB Silver Bream [Tarwhine] 37cm, PB KG Whiting 52cm, PB Mulloway 18kg, PB Tailor 3kg,
PB Salmon 5kg, PB Snapper 3kg, PB Samson 25kg, PB Snook 75cm, PB Flathead 45cm, PB Gummie 100cm, PB Hammerhead 35kg
oh and.....
PB Blowfish - 24 in one trip
Herring are not a food fish they are best used as bait for bigger fish.....
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Boots
Dhufish
Nice salmon good to see the mythical creatures making it this far north!
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
Lefty
Member Avatar
Administrator
That's very good to hear.
Fish, Brag & Post Pics
Offline Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
SnappaDan
Member Avatar
Black Bass
About time you got a decent fish on your holidays, well done. Next a mulla or pinky ;)
Online Profile Quote Post Goto Top
 
1 user reading this topic (1 Guest and 0 Anonymous)
« Previous Topic · Fishing Reports · Next Topic »
Add Reply