Prizes up for grabs as annual salmon run comp begins

Updated March 2 2021 - 3:37pm, first published February 25 2021 - 12:02pm
Recfishwests Matt Gillett is among fishers who love chasing abundant schools of salmon from beaches along the Great Southern and South West during the salmon run. Photo: Recfishwest
Recfishwests Matt Gillett is among fishers who love chasing abundant schools of salmon from beaches along the Great Southern and South West during the salmon run. Photo: Recfishwest

Western Australian salmon - dubbed by some as "the barramundi of the south" - a hard-fighting and acrobatic sportfish that West Aussie fishers spend $331 million on each year to catch.