Best fish you've ever caught at the busselton jetty?
Submitted by TunaFishin48 on Mon, 2013-05-20 22:01
I been fishing the busselton jetty for nearly 1 and a half years...not as much as the older locals but haha. But I was just wondering if any of you locals have caught anything at the jetty that was just out of the ordinary like a queenfish or a spaniar! Because my best at the jetty would probably a striped tuna which weighed 11kg.
cheers Daniel :)
quadfisher
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A man called TOM
Yeh a couple of years back we got 2 long toms there in one afternoon, not that uncommon there
in some years apprently, about double the length of a normal gardie.
Funny thing is one passing dude swore on his mothers grave that they were gardies , dispite me showing him the
parallel jaws full of teeth, both were duly released, probally into the jaws of your 11kg tuna!
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TunaFishin48
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Haha probably!
Yeh cheers for that! The tuna at the jetty were all over the Gardies and yellowtail
cheers Daniel.
hlokk
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11kg would have been 2kg
11kg would have been 2kg over the state record!
MattMiller
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^^Agreed^^
thats what I was thinking
crasny1
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If a youngster might have IDed it wrong
Have heard of big tuna caught at the end, ?what type.
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TheJettyRat
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Is that you young Daniel ? or
Is that you young Daniel ? or are you a older Daniel ? If you are young Daniel I havn't seen you out there in a while, you and your bro should come out Mulla fishin. May just be that I havn't fished the end in a week that I havn't seen you since that is where you hang out.
Cameron71
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Many many years ago I pulled
Many many years ago I pulled up a 20KG Sambo on rope line with a plaited 200lb trace and a 14/0 hook embedded in a big live squid. Rope tied to the train track. I do things differently now.
The best thing I saw in terms of fish taking bait was about a 10kg Sambo. I was at the end (before the fire and before the underwater observatory) and saw it swim in. I had no heavy gear out but had a heavy rod and double snelled hook set up ready. However the only bait I had was a squid that was still alive but was so big that his hood was sticking well out of the top of a 20l bucket. What the hell - stuck it on, pitched him in and stood holding the rod. The squid held about three meters below the surface in chrystal clear water. After about 10 minutes the sambo (or a sambo) appeared, flew toward the bait, ran three wide circles around it and then hit it and that massive squid just disappeared. I would not have believed it could have wolfed that bait down.
The gear was quite heavy and the fight was pretty short.
Also saw a long finned tuna about the size of a dolphin there about 15 years ago. That was amazing. I think that was the type - it had the big long thin dorsal fin.
Habanero
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Two JD's
Couple of John Dory in one sesh (ten years ago) , never did manage to get a Mulla tho..
Justin M
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Not much of a fish but I got
Not much of a fish but I got a big fat orange octopus a few weeks back. Silly bugger snagged himself on a 5" ghost pearl jerk minnow that had turned lime green. It won when it gripped the jetty with its tentacles. Would that be out of the ordinary for there? Sure was weird.
MattMiller
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Personally
just a couple of Mulloway in the high teens but there were Spaniards caught this year and in years gone by there used to be runs of Southern Bluefin out at the end but now that the jetty is shorter you dont here of it happening?
TunaFishin48
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Are you serious? I've seen people get 20kg "Striped tuna"
@thejettyrat,
yea it's lil Daniel, haven't been out lately yea, hopefully I can this weekend would be great! But yea I saw you 12kg mully good effort mark! I gotta go past your shop tomoz to get more braid,but yea gotta meet up soon!
MattMiller
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Interesting
a 20kg Striped Tuna you say?
The state record is 10kg and Australian record is 12kg so someone better get some scales down there and set some records!!!!!
Tim
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Striped Tuna
They do grow them big sometimes. Get to over 30kg.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skipjack_tuna
Been plenty caught over 10kg offshore from Perth. Have heard of other bigger ones in OZ but most of the real big ones are from other countries.
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Mate of mine caught a
Mate of mine caught a monster Buff Bream around 10-12 kg at the end on a boat we were on years ago. It shat green shit all over the deck and was an awful stink.
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j moule
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38 kg sambo
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karbang!!! nice bloody fish
karbang!!! nice bloody fish
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dale 308
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ive been fishing out the
ive been fishing out the jetty since i was 8 gotten just about everything from nig yellow tail kingys to mullaway to big sambos a few tuna a to sharks but the jetty is very on off can be hot to cold in a matter of hours but i still havent cuaght one of those big pink snapper