Honsu, Flangies, my brother Andy & I have just returned from another EPIC Jurien Bay trip.

We drove up Sunday night after a big meal & checked in at a reasonable hour just in time for some knot tying & sleep.

We woke to a very chilly overcast morning.

All the bling was onboard & we were excited to use a number of different soft plastics (McCarthy’s) & metal jigs (Shout’s, smiths, seven seas, fanky’s, evergreens, bay rubbers, SW Lab’s & fisherman).

We had outfits ranging from light & stupid (10lb) up to PE5 (50lb+).

Within short travelling time, we were at our first spot & down went the soft plastics & jigs. For some, it was a matter of 1 crank of the handle & the reels started squealing. First drop & Flangies had a good jig munching pinky onboard. Honsu added to the quota with a great Dhu, I added to the quota with McCarthy caught Pinkie & my bro scored a rat sambo on a McCarthy too.

Within the next few minutes, we scored plenty of Pinkies, Sambos & the occasional AJ. A large Mako shark circled the boat looking for an easy feed.

Funnily, Flangies had never caught a Sambo (yes, weird) & his first Sambo would have pushed the foot long mark. Throughout the day Flangies scored plenty of Sambo upgrades.

On another strange note, my brother was using a 200g SW Lab speed jig trying to score another Sambo which resulted in a nice Pinky instead.

More strangely, my jig was raped by a dirty NW blowie. I wasn’t impressed.

The call was made for some Dhuie action. Within a few more minutes of travelling, we were at the primo spot. Again, Honsu scored a nice Dhu (lucky really). I continued to jig away scoring another cracker of a baldie on jig. I also hooked another & dropped it at the boat.

Throughout drifting a nice patch, I scored numerous pup sized Dhu’s & finally landed a more solid specimen of 7kg. Finally, my PB Dhu; All my Dhuies to date have been caught on Jig. Pretty good considering I’ve only had 3 attempts at them.

Flangies & Andy also landed some puppy Dhu’s.

From here, we continued landing Pinky after Pinky. Flangies & Honsu landed some very solid Pinkies (Flangies on McCarthy & Honsu on jig).

In the last few minutes of the trip, a school of solid sambo’s turned up & stretched everyone on board. Andy did well to land a solid Sambo on extremely light gauge hooks & superlight drag & Flangies accounted for his PB Sambo of the day.

Overall, it was a truly epic trip. Multiple hook-ups all day long. The strike rate was phenomenal.

Good blokes were rewarded with good fish. What more could you ask for.

Daz

P.S A BIG thanks to Whitey of Seasport Charters. He is a top bloke & puts you onto quality fish.