Jurien Report

 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. 


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terrible catching bloody

Fri, 2011-04-29 20:51

terrible catching bloody pesky tuna, nice mack for your mate and nice tub.

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gettin stuck into the pelagics milsey!

Fri, 2011-04-29 20:53

you've had a good season

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 nice report , your doing

Fri, 2011-04-29 22:21

 nice report , your doing well lately. Personally tho mate i wouldnt have headed out in a 3-4 metre swell haha.

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Have you won lotto lately Milsey?

Sat, 2011-04-30 13:43

Last week its longtail and macks out of a dodgy lookin' tinny and this week its champagne and luxury cruisers??? What's the go?? I expect it's another 'who you know' story eh mate.

Got to love the longtail. 10lb is all we used to chase them with in QLD...admittedly on 4000 certates so they could run...about 400 metres.

Your last couple of weeks are making a few of us pretty jealous...is that reel a penn or okuma? either way you need extra points for that capture...I didn't think either came with a drag??

 

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 haha I don't know about

Sat, 2011-04-30 15:47

 haha I don't know about dodgy looking dinghy, We have a bigger boat but we like many others on here like bit of a challenge and for us that included catching big pelagics from a dinghy plus its bit of a mission to launch a 2.5 tonne boat from the beach. I think the reel was a shaksphere, But like you said zero drag.

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 another succesful trip away

Sat, 2011-04-30 16:23

 another succesful trip away for you. well done and congrats on your mates first mac

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