doobie 5,802 Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 Yesterday (Monday), the weather forecast was for moderate North Easterly winds along the coast, and a reasonably chance of rain. So I decided to head for Waitpinga and Parsons to lure for Salmon, a bit of warm clothing and wet gear. Even though the area hadn’t produced for me in a while, neither had metro southern beaches, apart for a few ST’s – so I had nothing to lose. So the car was already parked - from the day befores outing for a couple of flicks around Maslins (for a donut) – and I headed off at 8.45am with intentions to have the line wet before 10am. A cloudy day both here and all the way to Waits. A high tide of 1.08mts at 12noon would have me there in time for the incoming tide and allowing some good distance of walking the beach until its peak. A quick stop for a photo of Victor area. It does look so much better when the sun is out. Almost there. A view over a water catchment towards Waits. According to a local, this catchment lost a lot bream recently from heavy rains and apparently the outlet along the beach had dozens of dead bream. The Waits viewing platform has not changed since the storms (no steps) and the way down is still to walk left onto the dunes. Whilst I was there some workman just about to put some posts along the dune and had dismantled the remaining 3 steps from the damage. Conditions looked great, no wind (so much for the weather forecast), but it started to rain quite steady. I decided to park at the bottom car park for an easier approach to the beach. Once on the beach I headed to the right where some nice looking gutters were and headed right to the end without any Salmon touching my lure. I used a 40g Halco chrome lure at first then changed to a $4 cheapie from K-Mart for the walk back. Once back at the platform area, and with the high tide about half an hour away, I could see the waves hitting hard against the sand dunes. There was no way I could get past without being swamped and I wanted to get up by the reef that has produced well in the past. So decided to get up on to the sand dunes and climb over the top of them until I got past these breaking waves. Mind you I had second thoughts of doing this as a couple of the dunes did look kind of steep – but nothing ventured, nothing gained, so off I headed. Just repeating this photo as it shows the area of concern just left of the 2 fisherman. You might think that first sand dune doesn’t look too bad, and it wasn’t, but the next one behind the first was worse, but I soldiered on. Well effort to get on to the beach from the ‘hazard’ proved to be a waste of time as again there were not hits on my lure. It’s about 1pm now and from the reef I couldn’t tell if the waves were still smashing the sand dune, so decided to walk right to the end, knowing there was not too many opportunities to flick due to rocks etc. But thought this will waste a little more time allowing the water to drop a little. That paid off as the waves had subsided slightly and saving me another dune climb. Now off to Parsons Beach and I wasn’t holding much hope of catching anything. On my arrival, I took a quick photo of the beach and noticed one fisherman near the exposed rocks. Mind you, those rocks (once I was done there) were absolutely fantastic in their worn formation. Parsons doesn’t have too many gutters, but what is there are reasonably good, and I have have generally caught more fish here than Waits. As I got back to the car to collect mygear, a couple of guys came up from the walkway with a nice 2kg and a couple of 1kg Salmon. They had been at Waits during the morning with no result, but the mentioned they got these just on the otherside of the rocks. Second before the rocks and watched an ST following the lure in shallows and grabbed it – yah, not a donut day. He was over legal but released him as wanted bigger (not greedy or anything). Another couple of casts and another ST and released. Walked further to try past the rocks (having a quick chat the other fisherman – he had a couple of ST’s only) and now hits were the previous guys got theirs. So now for the usual walk to the end and about 150mts before the end rocks I get a hit in smallish gutter – which I was not expecting. It felt big, the rod well bent and he started to spool me slightly, so a quick extra tightness on the drag, but he was fighting very well. Next, out the water he flies – I just love that sight. Once beached, he was fat and approximately 2.5kg and estimated close to 60cm. Quickly bled and lure thrown back in. On again, and this one seemed to be fighting harder and flew into the air a couple times and even though I just tightened the drag, this one spooled me for good 10mts – he wasn’t giving up – so tightened the drag even more and slowly got him to the shallows and dragged him with the waves. This was a big Salmon for me and on first appearance was would a PB. You can tell in the below photo a cut underneath the tail and I am gathering he cut himself on my line whilst fighting. Again, quickly bled and ready for more. Another 3 were landed around 2.5– 2.8kg and about 56 – 60cm and kept and all the fish looked healthy and were all plumpish. For extra fun, another 4 were landed and released and 3 threw the lure. The time was about 3.30 now, so left them on the bite and the long and very heavy walk back to the car. If the walk didn’t kill me the hill nearly did. I was stuffed and stopped a few times on the hill to stop from having a heart attack !! But what seemed could be a donut day ended up being some thrilling excitement. DR Squidley, SA dangler, archerfish and 15 others 18 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
wilda 422 Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 Great report and pictures mate, and some beautiful fish. Couple of good feeds to boot. doobie 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Underpants 1,543 Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 Nice work Doobs. I admire your perseverance & glad it paid off . doobie 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
brenton 637 Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 good fish Doobs,if you fish tomorrow theres a big school on seaford reef ,well there was yesterday anyway. cheers b plankton 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Guest Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 Good one mate... Enjoy your reports there always detailed and with good pics. doobie 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ludaqryz 290 Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 Good one Doobie Those gutters look good and those five beauties would have given the Seabass a proper break in doobie 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Meppstas 4,964 Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 Brilliant report and ripper photos doobie, it's such a beautiful area down there that's for sure.. After all that walking you thoroughly deserved those fish mate, well done.. cheers Adrian doobie 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
HB tragic 743 Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 ^^^^^ What he said. Always a good read with fantastic photography ... and a few nice fish. Regards, HBt. doobie 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
doobie 5,802 Posted August 30, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 Cheers everyone for your comments. I try to give a good report but hope it doesn't get too long winded at time good fish Doobs,if you fish tomorrow theres a big school on seaford reef ,well there was yesterday anyway. cheers b You're right brenton, and they where there today as well from what I've seen - but can't get down there for a few days. Not that it matters, I have enough fillets to last a while now Good one Doobie Those gutters look good and those five beauties would have given the Seabass a proper break in Good memory ludaqryz and they certainly did the seabass a good workout. Something I was just a little worried about to be honest, but she handle to 'competition' with ease Quote Link to post Share on other sites
southie THE BANGA 2,304 Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 Nice report mate. Good to see some decent reports coming through on Strikehook. doobie 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bullet 11 Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 Parsons looks great , i would have like to throw out a live trout around the kilo for a Mullie .. doobie 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
AquaticResearch1 1,046 Posted August 30, 2016 Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 Awesome mate, good to see some solid sambos put on a show for ya doobie 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
doobie 5,802 Posted August 30, 2016 Author Report Share Posted August 30, 2016 Parsons looks great , i would have like to throw out a live trout around the kilo for a Mullie .. There could have been a good chance for a Mullie, unfortunately I didn't catch any salmon near the kilo range lol Quote Link to post Share on other sites
bjorn2fish 4,612 Posted August 31, 2016 Report Share Posted August 31, 2016 Great report and pics mate, well done on some very nice salmon. doobie 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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