A mate and I headed up to Jurien on Wednesday with the plan of getting my mate onto his first Mack. We left Perth at 9:30pm and hit some pretty shitty driving weather and was down to 50kmh at one point due to some bloody heavy rain. We arrived safely at 12pm and quickly got to bed excited about what might jump on the lines the next day. We awoke to some far from perfect conditions but we left the marina at 9am and started heading out, the south passage was pretty efffed with the prevailing 3-4m swell so we decided to head north and hit the areas I had luck on last week and with the lines soon in the water it didn’t take long for the first strike. My mate was up and fingers were crossed for a long slender fish, however after a good fight we landed our sashimi for dinner.

It still wasn’t what we were after so we continued heading north and all I can say is these bloody tuna became very frustrating, we couldn’t have the lures in for more than two minutes before one would jump on, and it made getting my mate his first Mack very difficult. However we still weren’t complaining and it was far better than nothing.

I think it was after our 8th released tuna the call was made to get the skirt out and just leave the deep divers to do their work, and it didn’t take long, 10mins in and the X-rap went off, my mate was up and the early call was made for a Mack. A few mins later and after we had sight the call was backed up.

After my mate landed his first Mack we decided to have a little bit of fun on the way home and grabbed the smallest cheapest combo in the cabin. It didn’t take long and I was on, the first run smoked all the line and I was down to the knot, I stretched my arm to get as much distance on it, with some quick driving we were after the fish and somehow managed to stay connected, thank god the knot was solid. After a good 30min battle the fish was on board,

We decided to call it a day after that, a very fun day in some trying conditions but we ticked all the boxes and made the trip back home today.