Jurien last week.
Spent the first week of School holidays in Jurien with the wife and kids plus our usual holidaying companions.
Weather was crap the first 3 days so we did the usual drink and eat too much waiting for all the weather sites to tell us lies as usual.
Anyway we got out on 3 days with half decent weather.
First day found lots of ground with loads of undersize Pinkies and Jewies 8 mile out.
Amoungst the small stuff we did find some good size fish but it was hard work. Kept a couple of size pinkies but they were not massive.
Day 2 we finnaly found the Jewies we were after 20 mile out. 2 good size eating fish and we released a much better fish but hey thats the bag rules these days. Picked up a queen snapper and once again loads of small pinkies and undersize Jewies with a sambo thrown in for fun.
Capped off the trip on day 3 with a cracker skippy which we released, 2 Baldies and 2 pinkies for the bag limit.
Lots of fresh fish for dinner in the comming weeks.
By the way Jurien sea rescue were great, Loads of help with constant weather updates. Thanks to them for keeping an eye/ear on us.
Check the pics below. We are wearing PFDs because of some close calls with whales on recent trips. My mate had a Humpback breach and kick the boat so better safe then sorry hey.
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adam87
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Date Joined: 16/05/11
Nice report mate thanks!some
Nice report mate thanks!
some awsome fish there
Jamos Damokos
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Nice fish, almost hit a whale
Nice fish, almost hit a whale myself last week at the windmills on the way back from rotto, thing surfaced about 2 boat lengths infront of me.
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quindieselbrad
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nice fish :) we also had a
nice fish :) we also had a close call with whale jumping within metres of boat, not fun lol
Catchn dhuies off the smell of an oily rag :)
r.gates
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Date Joined: 15/11/10
Jurien
Great report and some ripper fish...both caught and released. The water looks pretty calm....that's a horse of a queenie!
Only been to Jurien once (Easter) but definitely heading back there soon.
We've encountered whales on our last 2 trips out from the Dawesville Cut...haven't got closer than 100m but I can imagine it would get pretty hairy if they were close enough to slap the side of the boat.
regards
rusty...
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