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i shop at the Dorsal Fin mate family run business ..rob does all in house berlys and baits ..sinkers rigs ect.. he wont be beaten on prices either
 
1 stop shop.... Address: 13 Diagonal Rd, Cavan SA 5094
Phone:(08) 8260 3317

congrats too the winners great prizes and cheers too the sponsors who made this happen

DAY 1

In the first week of school holidays, a Kangaroo Island trip was a great way to settle us in thanks to one of my best mates (John) and his family, who are one of the biggest deaf families in Australia! We arrived on a beautiful day with nothing but blue skies and crystal clear water. As soon as we got off the ferry, we were straight into the fishing! I spotted a few good schools of tommies so I chucked on a small hard body to see if I could tempt a few.. After landing a couple, a tiny squid appeared to be attacking the lure! Hooked up to it but dropped it. The next cast the same thing happened but this time I landed it. It was only small but there were quite a few hanging around it so I quickly chucked on a jig. First cast with jig, it was smacked by a nice squid on the drop. Same with the second, third and forth cast!   I realised how many there were but we were only keeping a few for bait and the rest were released. For the next 1 and a half hours we caught close to 30 squid, sharing around a single rod!    John, his two brothers and mum all landed their first squids which they were stoked about!   




 
It was time to head over to our shack, which was in Hanson Bay. We unpacked and set off for a stroll to the second beach, carrying a couple of rods. We found a very nice gutter and whist John chucked a bait out, I was flicking metals and soon hooked up within the first few casts! After a couple of solid runs, it spat the hook but another one took it closer in! Once again it spat the hook but again, a school chased it into the wave breaks and I saw the hookup through the wave! This one was one of the larger models which took me for a huge run and spat the  hooks again!!!! It was one of the biggest salmon I've hooked and I was spewing!! I even saw it in the wave with another 4 fish following it and clearly, this one was the biggest.   

For the next couple of casts, I had no interest in the lure but once the sun started to go down, plenty of big tommies and small salmon trout were hitting the lure. I landed quite a few big tommies while John only had bites on the baits. It got dark and cold so we decided to call it quits. Fortunately, the alarm was set for an early start the next morning!   
 
DAY 2
 
6am, we got up and had a quick breakfast. Walked to the river in Hanson Bay which I believe is the South-west River? The scenery was beautiful with the early morning fog creating a blanket over the top of the river. At the first accessible spot, I had a practice cast which resulted in a hookup on the Ecogear SX40! It was only a small bream but a good sign!

 
We made our way up the river flicking at every spot we could access. Before it warmed up, I landed another 3 fish with my mate getting donuts, it was his first time using lures which was understandable but I showed him quite a few tricks! 


 We made our way up to the very top of the river where I had plenty of casts in a small pool, on the 10-15th cast, I had a solid hookup! This one felt bigger and almost got me into a snag. After a good fight, I lifted it up to the ledge and boy was this bream healthy!   It measured 30cm and after a few pics it was quickly released. 

 
 
We went back to the second bay after lunch where we landed plenty more tommies, salmon trout and loads of pesky wrass! 

 
We got bored and went back to the shack to get the kayaks ready for a relaxing paddle in the river. But knowing me, I had to bring a rod along.    I followed behind John with the SX40 being trolled behind me. It wasn't long before I got hits, and lots of them! At the first bend in the river, I managed to land around 3 small bream. We made our way all the way up the river where I had no hits at all so we decided to go back down. As soon as we hit the same bend, I had a heap of hits. I hooked up to a few fish which spat the hook. This time I only landed one before sundown which was just legal. A quick photo and release.

 
DAY 3
 
The next day, we went to Kingscote jetty. It was pretty windy and cold. We had plenty of tiny bites on the baits but no hookups, it was really slow. After an hour, John hooked up to something huge on my rod! It took a rather large squid tentacle and screamed off straight under the jetty. After a quick 20 seconds, it busted him off on the pylon..    We reckon it was a big salmon, small kingy or possibly a snapper. I tied on another rig which had no interest other than the odd small nibbles. In the last few minutes, I decided to try for squid. It was hard casting with the wind but I managed to land 2 small squid before we left. 

 
Just after dark, we made our way to Vivonne Bay jetty. it looked very promising with tommies swarming the lights. First couple of casts, we landed a couple of tommies on plastics! They were solid tommies going 28-30cm. After landing around 20, I hooked onto something that peeled line!  After a decent fight, I lifted it up and to my surprise, it was a nice Silver Trevally! A couple more tommies were caught and then I hooked up to another slightly bigger Silver Trevally! We were getting loads of tommies and before we were about to leave, I hooked another Silver Trevally which looked a lot bigger! It fought extremely hard and spat the hook before it broke the surface. Oh well, we landed a nice feed all up! 


 
DAY 4
 
After a long night, we woke up tired but we didn't want to leave the place without landing a big salmon, so we walked all the way to the third beach, both casting metals into the surf along the way. We both managed to land a few salmon trout each, nothing big and were released. We made it to the third beach which didn't look as good as I thought, the gutters were really shallow and we didn't get a single hit. On the way back, we flicked metals at the end of the second bay, next to the rocks. First cast we both had hits. We hooked up to some good fighting salmon trout but we both persisted through the smaller ones. After I had a talk with John about why persistence is crucial in fishing, we both hooked up to a big salmon each, at the same time!!!   Mine was doing plenty of heart stopping jumps but they both stayed on! We were so excited and shared an amazing experience together. Both salmon were our personal bests with mine going 55cm and John's going 51cm. 


 
We threw them onto the sand and our lures went straight back in, hoping for another 'real' salmon. This school moved way to quickly and we didn't hookup to anymore solid fish.. After another couple of hours flicking lures and catching salmon trout after salmon trout, we called it a day and what a day it was!!! 

 
After hard work scaling and filleting the fish, they made a lovely meal! This was when I realised how good they tasted fresh from the surf! 

 
DAY 5
 
It was an early start for me as I had to leave. Lots of hand shakes and hugs went around as I left. I arrived at Penneshaw jetty a few hours early which gave me time to fish! It was windier than the first day but it didn't stop the squid from biting! First cast I hooked up to a nice squid, followed by more.

 
I ended up catching and releasing around 20 and decided to try catch something else. I chucked on a Zman 2.5" grub to see what was hungry. Casting into the reefy shallows, I had a solid hit, quickly retrieving the lure in, it was followed in by a wrass which smashed it! They actually fight hard which was a surprise.  After a pic it was released. 

 
And of course! Here's the video!! My longest video yet, please enjoy  

 
What an amazing experience I had! MASSIVE thanks goes to John and his family for the awesome time. 
I would also like to thank a few Strike and Hook members that helped me get familiar with Hanson Bay! 
 
Cheers guys. 
Alex. 

Funniest and worst...
 
Garden island a few years ago, nothing decent biting all afternoon, Not me but a mate managed to bring up 2 big blue swimmers going at it mid session if you know what I mean.... Caught on a rod on a half pilchard certainly eased the boredom for a while
 
 
Also thought I'd snagged something once fishing in the port from an old ramp/dock type think near the jervois bridge I think it is? Anyway I suddenly managed to start to getting line back incredibly slowly, and 10 minutes of dragging in godknows what it slowly starts to appear... I've only gone and hooked onto a dirty old 2 seater couch.... Was the only thing I caught all day bigger than 20cm salmon trout!!

I can't remember where we were going but we had stayed at Pondalowie Bay for a long weekend diving and fishing. I remember it was a Sunday for reasons that will become evident. We were towing the boat east from Mation Bay to Pt Vincent (Hillocks Drive?) when one of the guys was absolutely busting for a crap. He was that desperate that we had to pull over immediately in an area with no cover. Just wheat stubble. He goes to do his business behind the left hand side trailer wheel for some privacy. Over a slight rise comes a car towards us and straight away you could see it was elderly two ladies of the blue rinse brigade, going to church we presumed. I forget who was driving (it doesn't matter we all would have donme it), car into gear and pull away leaving him on the side of the road with pants down, bog roll in one hand and shocked expression on face. I don't think we moved for 15 minutes after that we were laughing that hard.

Whoops yup that was meant to be $450 not $50 ahahah i wish! 

Not a luvias 

I was in my boat in the coorong and Alexsfishin came along in a yak. As he was leaving he decided to be funny and grab my line, well karma got him quickly as he capsized! Ended up losing 2 quality combos, his catch and a heap of other gear. As well as being freezing cold! 
 
Or it could be fishing port willunga and having a rogue wave come along, knock my stradic ci4+ and daiwa generation black combo out of the holder and wash it out to sea. Couple hours swimming to no avail. Packed up to leave, decided what the hell one more look! 50M down the beach, i couldnt believe my eyes... it washed up right in front of me!!!

I think that's just part of fishing the Onk hahaha

I also put cockles in glass jars layering with salt then cockle then salt etc. I dont bother drying the cockle meat as they just sit in their juices in the jar. The jars are kept in the fridge only ready to go. They toughen up really well & find they last this way almost indefinately unless you use cockles alot!. Anyway to some of the jars I add aniseed, to another curry powder etc. This way I can take out a cocktail of cockle bait as well as fresh. They all work with some better then others on the day. Have been doing this for years. 

I bought one of the small poppers when they arrived at work about two months ago. They work quite well as a top water lure for salmon and I'd imagine yellowfin in summertime would have a go as well. I originally bought it for micro popping rat kingfish but will have to wait until summer for that. The smaller minnows looks great as well but I haven't bought one yet

Make sure you get yourself a couple of daiwa double clutches both in 60mm and 75mm BIG BREAM CANDY ALRIGHT!!! One of my double clutches would have caught at least double if not triple every lure in my tackle box hands down!!! Before i got a double clutch my go to was the SX40 in 351 or 307. Will be getting myself a few nories, OSP and megabass to trial but im tipping they wont be as productive as the double clutch.... And yes that elusive 50cm bream is definitely on the cards for me also  

Some good fun on light gear!!
1 casualty though.....
 
😂😭😪

Since you asked mate 😊

About 3 years ago now.
 
Desperate for a fish and headed out solo to the end of the Outer Harbour Breakwater for a lure session. Fell over badly on that slimy green crud, literary right at the end and landing on my hand and hip. Busted the reel (Sedona FD) and and bruised my hip bone.   fun walking back to the car!
 
Didn't get a single touch for my efforts but managed a pretty sore hip joint  for about 3 months

Going arse up mid fight of fish is my most common incidents whilst fishing. Stacking it fighting a good bream in the Onk and getting covered in filthy mud from head to toe. Using bream gear off the rocks at the end of Browns Beach and stepping on the green algae crap, slippery like soap, and landing on my hip. Loooong walk back in the sand with a bruised side and ego.
Also stacked it many times in the creeks chasing trout with crappy boot treads on smooth stones.

Yesterday was the Onkaparinga River Fishers Competition Day which was held by Fishingmad (Joshua). It was rain, wind and sunshine but it was awesome fun with almost everyone catching at least a couple of fish each. Met plenty of friendly people and had a quick chat with some familiar faces! 

The biggest bream was caught by me, going 34cm on a Zman 2" grub. Which won me a pack of 2.5" grubz, TT HWS 1/16 jigheads and some Sunline 10lb leader. 



 Photo Credit: Joshua Davey.
 
Not many 'decent' fish were caught that day, not even a schoolie!! So most of the prizes went to the raffle draw. 

Here's some footage for the day. 

ive got the 10'6 daiwa aird combo with the new daiwa freams (magsealed) running 20lb daiwa shinobi braid. Cast slugs a mile

Really appreciate the time and effort you put into this great site Bjorn.
Cheers again mate.
Good luck to all entrants, the salmon have been hard to get at times, then firing at other times.
Always a good read guaranteed in these salmon comps.

Yes, a disappointing salmon season so far, hopefully things improve, in past years I've actually had some of the best action in September and early October, so maybe good things ahead.
 
In the meantime, I might give freshwater a go for the first time in years, those redfin look like fun.

Here we go, the official announcement of The Fishing Guru Salmon Comp!
 
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1 x 7g Stainless Steel 'Twistie' Surf Lure 1 x 15g Stainless Steel Holographic Surf Lure 1 x 23g Stainless Steel Holographic Surf Lure 1 x 10pk Stainless Steel Slimline Snaps 1 x 5pk Ezy Rigs 2 x Running Surf Rig 1 x Stainless Steel Fish Filleting Glove 1 x 40pce Ultimate Beads pack 1 x 20pk Black Bait bands 1 x Camo Microfibre Fishing Buff 1 x Strike & Hook Cap 1 x Strike & Hook Beanie  

 

 

 
Awesome!
 
Get your salmon topics cranking to have a chance to win all this great Fishing Guru gear and good luck!

Spanyid Raiders are my fave metals for STs.
St Kilda T&T often has them for $5.
Good things about cheap metals, is you won't hurt in the wallet if you lose one.
StrikePro Cyber vibes have also been good in the past, but you can always use cheap blades and have just as much success.
Would be awesome to have a salmon sesh in the Coorong like that.

I had a feeling it had to be out of the boat, if you were catching salmon like that off the local beaches I'd have to start following you around.   Gotta love the Coorong!

Took the boat down to the coorong, kayaker said there was a big school all around him and told us to anchor up next to him (if you are on here cheers mate, top bloke!) chucked the berley pot over the side and before we knew the sounder was absolutely chockers! gave Alexsfishin a call and him and his mate tied off to the side of us on their yak. They were smashing the flick baitds, didnt even need to cast just dropped straight down and whack!! 

Thanks for all the replies so far. I agree with Cal, no need to get overly fancy when it comes to salmon lures. My main considerations are price (not much over $5), castability (the further the better) and of course the ability to catch fish (which most metal lures do well).
 
I do enjoy the good old Halco lures but I find they're getting a bit higher in price then I like, likewise with the Spanyid Raiders and Gillies lures, saw both in Big W going for $7, I remember them being closer to $4 not too long ago.
 
 
well done, where did you find so many salmon, I can barely get a touch lately