Salmon?

[Striker]

Folks, maybe a stupid question but can you fish for salmon from the beach or off the rocks, or is this just for river and deep sea?

Ive been fishing on and off for years but ive never come across any while angling

[anthony2carr]

I have heard the stories of salmon being caught at sea using mackeral feathers. Never caught one in the sea myself , but with the room they have to run it would be fun.

I would imagine shrimp/prawn would take salmon in the salt. You must be in posession of a game license and adhere to the local fishery rules.

Note:- Most fisheries forbid the use of prawns and shrimp.

[twinkle]

i dident think you need a licence to fish in the sea i have caught salmon and sea trout at sea and never knew u would need a licence?

[rab01]

I was the same before I joined this site Twinkle. You definately need a game license to catch or even intend to fish for seatrout and salmon in any area, river, estuary, open sea. Doesn't cost much for a game license anyway and will give you piece of mind. Back to the question. Its a very rare thing to catch a Salmon in the sea, largely due to the fact that the fish starves itself for a long period and most people that catch them in a river is mainly due to the Salmon hitting your lure/fly through pure aggression. Whereas in the sea its really like a needle in a haystack. This being said I have heard of a few being caught in open sea so don't let me put you off mate.

[Striker]

I was the same before I joined this site Twinkle. You definately need a game license to catch or even intend to fish for seatrout and salmon in any area, river, estuary, open sea. Doesn't cost much for a game license anyway and will give you piece of mind. Back to the question. Its a very rare thing to catch a Salmon in the sea, largely due to the fact that the fish starves itself for a long period and most people that catch them in a river is mainly due to the Salmon hitting your lure/fly through pure aggression. Whereas in the sea its really like a needle in a haystack. This being said I have heard of a few being caught in open sea so don't let me put you off mate.

I never really thought of fishing for salmon until now but i mean its probably the most famous fish in the world, there seems to be plenty in Ireland going by what i see swimming back up our rivers each year, i did not know the starve themselves why is that?

[anthony2carr]

A salmon will stop feeding when they enter the river.This is natures way of protecting the salmon stocks.

I know they will go to deep sea to feed and come back to the river they were born in to spawn.

The fish will wait in the estuaries until they have the chance to enter the river. Looking at farmed salmon you will see that they are constantly jumping, this is because the urge it still in the fish to make it to a river. This is probably why salmon are not caught as often in the sea. In the rivers salmon will rest and a fish will only be caught just before the fish rests and just before the fish comes out of it's resting period. In between times these fish will turn off.

However Hugh Falkus famously demonstrated that a travelling salmon will take a bait. Something that was previously thought to be not true. So there is a chance.

[Striker]

Ya see when you say things like that and theyll take bait your just confusing me again lol, so to catch (angling) a prized salmon youd really just want to be very lucky

[twinkle]

no just the seventh son of a seventh son and have a virgin shrimp willing to sacrifice it self lol

[corbyeire]

or you could just be macky bashing on the mouth of the corrib and pull in a 5lber on a set of feathers at the spanish arch!!!

[anthony2carr]

Yeah you have to be quite lucky