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I thought they might be too, but they're very white colour rather than blue/green like frogmouth pilchards. Maybe lighter just because they are on the beach rather than estuary.
Use a whole one instead of half 😄
  

King salmon injury from this morning. Cast out 15-20cm anchovy thing on a 6/0 and leave 2m of slack with reel in gear and your finger on the line to feel the take. Nek minnit metre plus king salmon jumps in front of you and peels line off at 100mph.....across your finger.

Got extra conscientious this morning as the north easters came in today - left home at 445 to hit the beach at 5.
Arrived to bustups everywhere; one quick castnet right at my feet had my net looking like a Christmas tree decorated with baitfish. We get huge schools of these hitting the beach in north easters - kind of look like 20cm long anchovies and the predators are always right behind them.

A very busy session followed on blue salmon in the 50's hitting the bait within minutes of casting out, also a couple of undersize king salmon - lost count of how many as it was like fishing a tailor school down south. Kept 5 for a feed.

Also dropped two large king salmon but meh, 5 blues are plenty for me. 
A guy 100m down from me was chucking all manner of hardbodies and plastics and didn't see him get a single hit - have observed over the years that for some reason lures do not do well at the beach I normally fish. 

King salmon injury from this morning. Cast out 15-20cm anchovy thing on a 6/0 and leave 2m of slack with reel in gear and your finger on the line to feel the take. Nek minnit metre plus king salmon jumps in front of you and peels line off at 100mph.....across your finger.

King salmon injury from this morning. Cast out 15-20cm anchovy thing on a 6/0 and leave 2m of slack with reel in gear and your finger on the line to feel the take. Nek minnit metre plus king salmon jumps in front of you and peels line off at 100mph.....across your finger.

Got extra conscientious this morning as the north easters came in today - left home at 445 to hit the beach at 5.
Arrived to bustups everywhere; one quick castnet right at my feet had my net looking like a Christmas tree decorated with baitfish. We get huge schools of these hitting the beach in north easters - kind of look like 20cm long anchovies and the predators are always right behind them.

A very busy session followed on blue salmon in the 50's hitting the bait within minutes of casting out, also a couple of undersize king salmon - lost count of how many as it was like fishing a tailor school down south. Kept 5 for a feed.

Also dropped two large king salmon but meh, 5 blues are plenty for me. 
A guy 100m down from me was chucking all manner of hardbodies and plastics and didn't see him get a single hit - have observed over the years that for some reason lures do not do well at the beach I normally fish. 

Got extra conscientious this morning as the north easters came in today - left home at 445 to hit the beach at 5.
Arrived to bustups everywhere; one quick castnet right at my feet had my net looking like a Christmas tree decorated with baitfish. We get huge schools of these hitting the beach in north easters - kind of look like 20cm long anchovies and the predators are always right behind them.

A very busy session followed on blue salmon in the 50's hitting the bait within minutes of casting out, also a couple of undersize king salmon - lost count of how many as it was like fishing a tailor school down south. Kept 5 for a feed.

Also dropped two large king salmon but meh, 5 blues are plenty for me. 
A guy 100m down from me was chucking all manner of hardbodies and plastics and didn't see him get a single hit - have observed over the years that for some reason lures do not do well at the beach I normally fish. 

King salmon injury from this morning. Cast out 15-20cm anchovy thing on a 6/0 and leave 2m of slack with reel in gear and your finger on the line to feel the take. Nek minnit metre plus king salmon jumps in front of you and peels line off at 100mph.....across your finger.

Got extra conscientious this morning as the north easters came in today - left home at 445 to hit the beach at 5.
Arrived to bustups everywhere; one quick castnet right at my feet had my net looking like a Christmas tree decorated with baitfish. We get huge schools of these hitting the beach in north easters - kind of look like 20cm long anchovies and the predators are always right behind them.

A very busy session followed on blue salmon in the 50's hitting the bait within minutes of casting out, also a couple of undersize king salmon - lost count of how many as it was like fishing a tailor school down south. Kept 5 for a feed.

Also dropped two large king salmon but meh, 5 blues are plenty for me. 
A guy 100m down from me was chucking all manner of hardbodies and plastics and didn't see him get a single hit - have observed over the years that for some reason lures do not do well at the beach I normally fish. 

Got extra conscientious this morning as the north easters came in today - left home at 445 to hit the beach at 5.
Arrived to bustups everywhere; one quick castnet right at my feet had my net looking like a Christmas tree decorated with baitfish. We get huge schools of these hitting the beach in north easters - kind of look like 20cm long anchovies and the predators are always right behind them.

A very busy session followed on blue salmon in the 50's hitting the bait within minutes of casting out, also a couple of undersize king salmon - lost count of how many as it was like fishing a tailor school down south. Kept 5 for a feed.

Also dropped two large king salmon but meh, 5 blues are plenty for me. 
A guy 100m down from me was chucking all manner of hardbodies and plastics and didn't see him get a single hit - have observed over the years that for some reason lures do not do well at the beach I normally fish. 

Got extra conscientious this morning as the north easters came in today - left home at 445 to hit the beach at 5.
Arrived to bustups everywhere; one quick castnet right at my feet had my net looking like a Christmas tree decorated with baitfish. We get huge schools of these hitting the beach in north easters - kind of look like 20cm long anchovies and the predators are always right behind them.

A very busy session followed on blue salmon in the 50's hitting the bait within minutes of casting out, also a couple of undersize king salmon - lost count of how many as it was like fishing a tailor school down south. Kept 5 for a feed.

Also dropped two large king salmon but meh, 5 blues are plenty for me. 
A guy 100m down from me was chucking all manner of hardbodies and plastics and didn't see him get a single hit - have observed over the years that for some reason lures do not do well at the beach I normally fish. 

Got extra conscientious this morning as the north easters came in today - left home at 445 to hit the beach at 5.
Arrived to bustups everywhere; one quick castnet right at my feet had my net looking like a Christmas tree decorated with baitfish. We get huge schools of these hitting the beach in north easters - kind of look like 20cm long anchovies and the predators are always right behind them.

A very busy session followed on blue salmon in the 50's hitting the bait within minutes of casting out, also a couple of undersize king salmon - lost count of how many as it was like fishing a tailor school down south. Kept 5 for a feed.

Also dropped two large king salmon but meh, 5 blues are plenty for me. 
A guy 100m down from me was chucking all manner of hardbodies and plastics and didn't see him get a single hit - have observed over the years that for some reason lures do not do well at the beach I normally fish. 

1. Attract less sharks - donated a full box of hooks to them this morning.
2. Find a reliable/ plentiful spot for live mullet.
3. Get a positive ID on whatever keeps spooling me in seconds. 

1. Attract less sharks - donated a full box of hooks to them this morning.
2. Find a reliable/ plentiful spot for live mullet.
3. Get a positive ID on whatever keeps spooling me in seconds. 

1. Attract less sharks - donated a full box of hooks to them this morning.
2. Find a reliable/ plentiful spot for live mullet.
3. Get a positive ID on whatever keeps spooling me in seconds. 

First called it for a shark.
First one for the season - 107cm.
 

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Tried again this morning - reached 3 shark limit pretty quick so went home (3 sharks in a row = my measure that fishing is bad).

Tried again this morning - reached 3 shark limit pretty quick so went home (3 sharks in a row = my measure that fishing is bad).

Living the dream!

Tried again this morning - reached 3 shark limit pretty quick so went home (3 sharks in a row = my measure that fishing is bad).

First called it for a shark.
First one for the season - 107cm.
 

video-1632991701.mp4  

I just do a quick tape measure to mid tail area, I don't worry about stretching the tail out to get a few more cm - I'm only measuring against my own captures.
Aids a quick release too - however this one was gut hooked and was belly up when I tried to swim it, so it came home. They often don't seem to release well (neither do blue salmon) - the amount of times I've released a salmon and 10mins later washes up dead on the beach, so I just fish to a take limit rather than try and C&R salmon - one big king salmon or 2 or 3 smaller blue salmon then go home. Stopped fishing after catching this one.  

I just do a quick tape measure to mid tail area, I don't worry about stretching the tail out to get a few more cm - I'm only measuring against my own captures.
Aids a quick release too - however this one was gut hooked and was belly up when I tried to swim it, so it came home. They often don't seem to release well (neither do blue salmon) - the amount of times I've released a salmon and 10mins later washes up dead on the beach, so I just fish to a take limit rather than try and C&R salmon - one big king salmon or 2 or 3 smaller blue salmon then go home. Stopped fishing after catching this one.  

First called it for a shark.
First one for the season - 107cm.
 

video-1632991701.mp4  

First called it for a shark.
First one for the season - 107cm.
 

video-1632991701.mp4