today, though it was interesting that some salmon were seen down Denmark way.

Bring on the salmon!

Esperance, Albany and Denmark way to give us some first-hand reports Simmo.

Im down in Walpole at the end of feb, then next w/e mandurah, two weeks after that in Margs, and The week after that in Albany for Easter. 

Hopefully be able to get into some on those trips!

I picked up a couple os f good size salmon last week down Bremmer way but there was quite a bit of water between them!

Hopefully hitting the beach this weekend a bit closer to Albany so will give you an update next week.

It will be interesting to know if any really big schools are starting to gather.

might head down to and old faithful spot down there for a shot at them

Got a couple of bigger salmon trout in the channel at Emu Point last weekend while chasing kg's.  Probably only about 50 or so cm's.  Schools and bigger ones shouldnt be to far away. Give it another month. 

I am hoping they are on their way from Esperance to your neck of the woods now.

There are big schools at esperance I have heard, was out that way this week for work!

Saw 3 over 3 kg this morning snorkelling in 2 meters of water near garden island.

from an undiscloused source in our southeast is that they are still very patchy. The hope is that the cooler weather/water will come in and they'll be thicker around the end of Feb / start of March.......

Young bloke at work and his father got 18 good sized Salmon at Cable Beach Albany close to the lighthouse last weekend.Flying gaff required.

He seems its to think its quite OK to catch 4 at a time take them up to the car and go again.It did happen as he had phone pics.

Perhaps if anybody knows the Albany fisheries officers it may be worth alerting them that this is going on.He bragged he has never seen the Fisheries there.Fishes there most weekends.

I told him he is no different than the Phillipinos he complains about taking undersize fish at Cable Beach.

ANNOYED NO END!!!!

Andrew

Had a report from a very reliable sourse that there was a 20 ton school just East of Albany on Friday.

Headed down there for a look over the weekend and from the heads on the beach I reckon the report was correct.

Heads appeard to be smaller fish around 5lb.

Hopefully a few more big schools will start to show up. Thanks for the info.

Colin, im off to denmark thi weekend for 3 or 4 days, will be looking for salmon while im there!

will let you know mate

Also, once they come a little further up the coast, if your interested in a weekend chasing them, happy to go for a spin down hamelin bay way mate.

If vanyonecan find them you will find them mate. I did hear there was a smaller school sited at Denmark last week.
And mate, I will definately be up for a salmon hunt with you.

Just lost the King of my life about 2 hours ago, ate a bridled rigged 4 kilo ballooned salmon....woulda been pushing 50kg and scoffed the poor scumbo like it was a mulie...

 Dang,

 As for the salmon, bloody nuisance off the rocks down here! Have seen a few school but only been getting the odd random one on livies.

JD 

That would have bbeen another awesome capture.
Keep us posted about the salmon schools if you can mate.

Many thanks, Colin

hey im a new member i just put up a post on the brag board about salmon :) theyre a bit closer to home than you think! okay okay theyre not the 5-7kg bruisers we get around easter, but a 3-4kg salmon is still a salmon!!

where though?

Where the heck are they.

:((( sorry guys

up and down the coast. They provide some great fun in between the big winter tailor runs and the arrival of the new season salmon schools.

I think you Perth-based guys should try places like Woodman's Point, Cott Groyne and Trigg if you want to catch some of these "resident" salmon and salmon trout.
Sherbs and Dean are the masters at finding them north of the river.

Cos you will be with me    Catching them

im keen to get a couple of them this year, never caught them before. My uncle from new zealand wants to try fish them so i thought why not go for a fish on labour day. Where abouts will they go? SOR here.

And when are the best times to fish them?

Any other things I need to know about them? aka salmons

Cheers! 

wear good shoes and get some good polarised sunnies. Most salmon fishing is sight fishing. When someone spots schools, you'll find that you'll be chasing after em lol. Early morning is usually the best time. Probably go somewhere not too far like dawesville. You wanna salmon fish and you just flogged of your poppers and metals? You shoulda kept them coz now i'll be using them when salmon show face. Mwhahahahahahaharrrrrrr

i got a couple more metals. =D

ill just buy 2 poppers and see how it goes. I have never used lures before. Only squid jigs and even then i suck at them haha, never succeeded in catching any squid tho.

Do I need to use  a surf rods while throwing the poppers out? Or can I just use my starlo stix shorespin with 8kg pretest line.

Do mullies on gangs works?

around the beaches between the Capes, or between Albany and Windy Harbour. You have to keep a close eye on the reports of where they are, because if you don't get it right you will hear the dreaded words "you should have been here yesterday - they were going off".

They are deadly on salmon.

and the school holidays are a long way =/

any places south of the river? 

dawesville... Dunsborough. Rod depends on size popper you have or ur gonne use. My 4 salmon rods for rocks are 8-9ft and are 12lb, 20lb, 30lb and 40lb. I wont be chasing them off beaches this year i dont think.

i find that rock groynes and a beach with a reef ledge or any reef works best during salmon season. south of the river has plenty of spots when theyre running.. the moles, woodmans point, rock groynes at woodmans point and the asi powerboat association, the groynes in front of austal ships, point peron reef areas is one of the best metro spots, back of penguin island is great, also a chance of getting some jumbo tailor there if ur lucky, the whole stretch of coast between halls head and florida beach is ur best bet to get into them south of the river :) burley up the small fish such as herring, yellowtail, garfish when you get there so when the big salmon arrive, they stick around chasing them while you scramble up the rocks getting your bigger gear :) fishing with a friend is best because one you hook up to one, the rest of the school follow the hooked fish, so you can cast to them, hook up, then your mate can get his in, then cast out to your fish and hook up to another one :)))) sorry for the rambling but slamon realy do get me giddy!!

Just back from Denmark,

Saw a big school at a guess 10 tonne out from 'The gap' But just were not interested in any lure i had with me. Spent hours casting at them but no go.

Talking to the locals, they have only just started showing up there, so will be a while before they get up our way.

I woudl say hamelin bay would be looking last week of March, to April before they are that far up.

Yep, start of March i'll head down to Dunny & Yalli (capes) and chase them L/B!

Still too early indeed but a descent pod of full size salmon went through the cut yesterday and Honsu got done in on several fish using light tackle ment for squid!

Many thanks Ryan.

lol... Sounds like honsu alright, always the egi gear handy hehe. But cheers ryan. Good to know some are about locally

Hey Guys,

New to the forum, Many reports of Juvanile salmon caught in the southwest in the loast week, I checked out near Smiths Today, Casted at a few schools of Juvy's (some very large schools) but they just weren't interested. 

 Ill keep my ear to the ground, and watch this blog,

Cant wait for the large schools :-)

Have any of you considered fishing Yeagarup? I fished there last year before Easter and got into some huge Salmon. It's also a place where you can test your 4WD skills and also get into some decent sharks and Mullas at night. For those of you who don't know where it is, see this link: http://maps.google.com.au/maps?client=firefox-a&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&hl=en&tab=wl&q=yeagarup

It is a very likely looking area.

Bay recently. There were some big salmon caught at the same spot.

Faxle, I had the same thing happen last feb down there. Wouldnt take metals but as soon as I put a popper on they were nailing it. Big school of juvies about 2kg

A mate got a few big salmon a few days a go around Yals. Said there were some nice 50cm+ tailor as well.

He reckons the biggest salmon are always caught at the start of the season.

Good Luck.

Really appreciate the info. Watch the rush down south start happening now.

i will be there this sunday early morning~~anyone know where is best spot in point peron?

this is a good idea, lets keep track of the salmon, i headed down last year for my 2nd run and bloody loved it, got a few monsters 88 78 and that was at mylup beach cape natulist

Im heading down to walpole this weekend for some bream/salmon.

Where's a good starting point to chase some salmon. Ill be sure to post up any results and pics  for everyone.

I would also find a local tackle store and see if they have any up-to-date reports.

caught one and lost one today.. i put up a post on the report forum

The big, multi tonne schools are still coming - I hope.

In fridays paper the report said a school of 30 or so 4-5kg salmon were in dawsville cut. So their should be more down further south. Im not too worried off to exmouth this week by the time I get back the salmon should be in full swing.Its probably best to wait a few weeks anyway than head down too early me thinks.

Good luck anyway everyone 

why U worried about salmon when you got all the awesome fishing in Exmouth!!

To be honest....the Cut fish are random and probably more last year "left behind" school. I hooked 3 there on stupidly light gear and lost them all. They were from out of no where and smashed my squid jig!! Then all I had was 3" soft plastics and 8lb braid and leader!! NO CHANCE. Been back 3 times for zip.
I would wait till the actual season is in full swing before I think about chasing them.

There are plenty of resident salmon around town if you can't get down south, but if you want the serious action, hit the beaches between Esperance and Augusta now and then wait for the big schools to start turning up around the Capes in a few weeks time (hopefully).

lol. Im giving them a shot before Easter and 2wks after....why 2wks?? SCHOOL HOLIDAYS....all the schoolies and toolies and the polies will be everywhere down there. Its like a plague down there.

A few salmon were caught around Rocky point and Bunker bay yesterday. Was ment to be a small school of around 30 odd fish. Might have a look myself tomorrow in the boat. Let you know how I go.

Hopefully a bigger school will turn up for you.

Don't forget to report any news boy and girls. I am sure a few people may be heading down south for the long weekend.

Im heading down to Peaceful Bay for the long weekend. Hopefully there will be a few around

school of salmon at Esperance which has been providing the locals with a lot of fun.

I just got back form walpole. I managed 1 about 6kg from the rocks around to the west of conspicuous beach.

It's still quiet down there. I did not meet anyone else who had caught one and did not see any schools, The one I caught was from a small class loitering about around the rocks. The wind and swell made it very difficult and dangerous to fish which did not help too much, most people seemed to be waiting for it to get better but with 3 days that was not a good tactic. The wind was so strong at times my lures were working themselves mid-air and the wind on my line was skipping my poppers.

The best I heard was that there was a big school feeding on herring at blue holes. This was second hand information.

went down to dunsbrough for the long weekend got onto a few salmon at canal rocks all around 60 - 65 cm they would only take live herring though... tried poppers, divers, mulies and metals and couldnt get anythin but out with the livies and on it was....

good luck boys 

Heard from someone at work they got word of a school around the northern Perth beaches over the weekend. They went for a look but no joy.

Seems a bit early, especially considering the recon in the above posts, but just posting what I've heard.

Not too much to report back from Peaceful Bay. Managed to get 4 down at the blue holes, good size though. Saw 3 small schools but they werent too keen on the lures. Managed one from a school the rest were just out of the gutters.

Got a couple at the gap from a large school but that disappeared to the deep much to our disgust.

No luck from the rocks, live baited herring for 2 hours for nothing. The wind was doing us no favours. Still had a great weekend

Plenty of salmon around Albany.  Fishing at sinker reef yesterday morning.  Small schools of a couple of hundred or so on reef edges.  Some looked decent sized. Standing on the reef edge they were only about <5m away. Spent hours chucking lures & mulies at them. Just werent interested. Very frustrating.  Did get a couple of thumper Skippy though.

just spent the long weekend at posion creek where the salmon where a nuisance, caught and relased over 60 in 2 sessions, we were  trying to get into the mulloway and big flathead but couldnt get our baits past the salmon.  in the end gave up and started targeting them with lures and plastics at night on light gear which made for some good fun.

i talked to a local who reports samon geting caught all year round bremer bay ever since the mulie disease struck but i expect to see them round april some time simular to last year thats when we got a glance of them heading round the cape but just keep an eye on the profesionals puting there thermometers in found the salmon wouldnt come in to the bays untill the water temp was down to a certain tempreture prep tip if they are not taking lures and mulies try a live herring they dont refuse to many of them have fun!

Sounds like you were in the right place Paddy

Might have to go have look down at Preston Beach in the next few weeks closer to easter.Id say another 3-4 weeks they should be up around there ?

Did poison creek last Easter Paddy, what a great place. A lot of people forget what is on offer east of Esperance.

If the Salmon action was thick and fast  there, then I'd be inclined to think they might be a bit late this season.

where abouts is poison creek guys??

Take Fisheries Road until you get to the dirt road heading towards Israelite Bay and turn right into Poison Creek. It's past Cape Le Grand National Park and part of Cape Arid National Park. Awesome area but my next trip there will see me head past Israelite Bay towards the Cliffs where big Pink Snapper can be caught from the beach.

THERE'S ONE OUT THERE WITH MY FAVOURITE POPPER IN ITS MOUTH GRRRR

Was camping at pipidinny on sat afternoon and saw 2 schools move past, moderate sized schools but definetly salmon we ran down the beach casting but couldnt reach, spotted from the top of the dunes!!

If you had a kayak you would have got into them Spook

Hopefully in a months time they will be hitting the decks of kayaks in the Metro area,,we are due for a cracker year after last years fizzer,,

If they don't come in close you may have to head over to Rotto. There always seems to be a few good school there.

Just been speaking to the guys at Dunsborough Sports and Outdoors and they said there has been heaps of reports of small schools showing up on the west coast and a few in the bay but no large schools as yet. Pros netted a larger school at Eagle bay several days ago, around half a tonne. Wont be long now until we see some good numbers showing up. Cant wait.

Brendan