A great day out.

 After booking a spot on Lucky Last Cast about 1 month ago the day arrived. After working all day on Saturday headed off to Jurien at 8.30 pm and arrived at just after 11 without seeing too many roos on the way. Got to the apex camp where i booked a room for 2 nights but i only managed about 2 hours sleep in anticipation of whats to come.

Arrived down at the boat at around 4am . we headed off from the marina at 4.30 heading south i think. we arrived at our first spot as the sun rose from the horizon with almost flat calm waters with only a hint of a swell.

The fishing started off slow but it picked up soon enough. As coincidence goes the fish came on the bite as Pink flloyd started playing through the speakers (one of my fave,s).

Soon enough i managed to get a small bauldie of around 43cm on board after a couple of red throats were released . Next up for me was a reasonable pinkie followed closely by my pb Bauldie of 48cm and soon after a new pb bauldie of 52cm so i was a happy chappy. i managed to get another small pinkie of around the 45cm along with a nice b/bum. 

As the wind died off the drift slowed down quite a bit which made it a bit more dificult but the fish were still comming on board. 2 dhuies were boated along with a small sambo and a small ambo followed by a decent size ambo that gave a bit of curry. 

I gave the jigging a quick go but being a novice i realy had no idea of what i was doing so just followed suit. as i started cranking the jig up it got hit big time only to be bitten off clean within a few seconds so that was the end of jigging for me. Within a couple of minuits a couple of huge who,s surfaced within 10 meters of the boat and was suggested that thats what could have taken my jig as there were a couple of frayed bits of line right at the end. 

All up i managed to land @ legal pinkies, 3 legal bauldies , 1 decend b/bum, 2 undersize bauldies and from memory 3 or 4 red throats. so all up i had a fantastic day out with a great bunch of guys, along the day there were some good laught as we were all getting onto the fish. 

the biggest fish of the day may not have been huge but a dhuie of about 7kg topped the day. Also a couple of tuna were taken on jig, first was a stripey taken on the surface then a yollowfin taken close to the bottom.

There was plenty of other fish caught for the day by all on board as well. just thought i would mention just a few

Thanks Dave for the great day on the water . 

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 Sounds like a fun day! How

Tue, 2013-03-05 21:24

 Sounds like a fun day! How deep were you fishing?

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 i think it was between 50 to

Tue, 2013-03-05 21:26

 i think it was between 50 to 60 mtrs but not too sure, i just dropped the line down and wound it up lol. 

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 Ok then thanks. I am

Tue, 2013-03-05 21:28

 Ok then thanks. I am contemplating a trip, just wondering if it was shallow enough to use bream gear and plastics

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Well done Russ

Tue, 2013-03-05 21:45

Sounds like you had quite a day up there....Jurien seems to be really firing lately.

rusty... 

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 your not wrong about it

Tue, 2013-03-05 21:48

 your not wrong about it firing atm. just gotta look on here to see how many got fish up there this weekend. there was plenty of boats up there

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Good stuff Russ, sounds like

Wed, 2013-03-06 05:57

Good stuff Russ, sounds like a good trip mate ,good to hear you are getting back out there getting afue

 

 

 

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Nice, I'm jealous. Sounds

Wed, 2013-03-06 08:30

Nice, I'm jealous. Sounds like it was a good trip and worth the effort

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 Yeah Jeff it was great to

Thu, 2013-03-07 08:42

 Yeah Jeff it was great to get out and get a few.beats working all the time.

no need to get jealous Spook, im the one that usualy just dreams about getting the fish.made for a great change

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Great to see

Thu, 2013-03-07 21:15

 Great to hear you got out and got into some fish.

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 back out there again at the

Mon, 2013-03-11 16:09

 back out there again at the end of the month as well. 

was great to get out

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