AUSTRALIAN salmon, especially the big ones, are synonymous with crashing surf on a southern beach or sudsy white water around a jagged headland.
But each winter on the NSW far south coast, increasing numbers of salmon enter various lakes and inlets, providing estuary fishers with ready access to large fish on light gear in calm conditions.
It usually begins in late autumn, as water temperatures start to dip and enormous schools of baitfish head for the relative safety and comfort of the estuaries.
Acres of salmon are often hot on their heels. Sometimes the sheer volume of fish turns the water black.
There’s a degree of unpredictability to this fishery. Salmon don’t enter every system, and they don’t necessarily choose the same estuary
