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Spykey... Any tips for Maroubra beach?

Hola! A friend of mine just moved to Coogee and we had a bit of a fish down in Lurline Bay last week, after a couple of hours we came up trumps fish less! We had floats on with 40-60cm Leaders baited with prawns and sea lettuce. I have never really tried fishing the wash before, if anyone has some local experience here and are keen to share some tips that would be great. We will be going back Saturday morning with stale bread and prawns to Burley the wash before casting out and trying our luck round two. Cheers, L

I would say thats where I lost out Mitchie...my early mornings were more like 7:30-8am, and my evenings ended on dark usually, I will try get out there earlier and stay out later next time and see how we go.

Hi guys, I am planning on heading down to Meroo National Park, just south of Ulludulla next week for a few days camping and mostly FISHING! I am a keen fisho, but amateur at best. I went down and fished this very spot last easter, in search of a good beach Salmon or Tailor. I had researched and learnt all I could about the best ways to catch these guys. No luck on the salmon in the end, caught a nice flatty and a few little ones, a dart, a small trevally and a rock fish of some description…and a tone of bream from Meroo lake..(thoroughly recommend!) I can’t quite attribute my failure for the salmon though.. I was running two types of rigs. A paternoster rig with a 2x 2/0 baitholder hook and BM 2oz sinker with enough trace to stop it all tangling up. The second rig was a simple running ball sinker 1oz-2oz with 45cm leader into a 2/0 baitholder. Both sets were baited with cut segments of pillies, I did try 3/0 ganged hooks, but never got a nibble… Plus I could never set the hooks right, and as we are camping, the further the trip progressed the softer the pillies became(ice kept melting), they eventually just fell of the hooks. I had spotted a school of salmon about 10m offshore hunting through the waves, cast out into the pack, and not a bite. Similarly, I attempted lures into the same school and not a thing. They were definitely salmon because I met a dude later that avo and he said he had caught two whoppers at that same spot! Bugger!! I fished the gutters, the run-in and out tide, the deep holes and the rips… Any help would be greatly appreciated as I have another 3 days next week to get them, and I am not coming home empty handed! Cheers, Liam