Great catch mate, hope it tastes better than the last salmon 🤣🤣. Just shows if ya crazy enough to stay out in weather like that It can certainly pay off, and yeah you need a bigger esky.
Rockhampton is hard at time I would spend hours chasing bait in the river. Gavial creek was my go to but in the end I just started driving to the beach collecting bait and hauling it back to rocky