Team gates in Jurien
Hi all
Team gates arrived Thursday arvo and after checking out our holiday house, we checked out the marina, boat ramp, sea rescue group and the local beaches. There's some weed on the beaches but the water looked ok, colour wise.
Hit the ramp at 8am Friday (yes, I know we should have been out there earlier but we've got some sleepyheads in our family!!). With a light easterly blowing, we headed out thru the north passage and decided to troll south along the 20m line behind the islands. After about 30 mins and not much happening, I got outvoted because 'trolling is boring' and so we headed out to a spot we'd been given.
Heaps of red on the sounder but nothing was really taking out baits, but the drift was pretty slow so we moved on the wind a bit.
The daughter was first on the scoreboard with a double header of undersize pinkies (38cm)...spewing! Both released with the weight, so that was good. A short time later, we had a couple of rods loaded up and after alot of anticipation, we had 2 norwest blowies in the boat, then back over the side....double bugger!! The commentary on the video went from excitement to bemusement.
Moving further west into 50m of water, we finally got some runs on the board....the daughter landed a nice baldie and a black arse, both firsts for her, followed shortly afterwards by yours truly with his first baldie...bigger than the daughter's so I got the bragging rights.
Got back to the ramp around 3.30pm, tired but happy with our catch. Baldie on the bbq tasted so sweet!
Saturday 23rd
Headed for the ramp at 8am and joined the queue to have a boat inspection by the local water police...formalities over with, we headed out for some trolling again because the winds from the NW was making things a bit lumpy. Lots of boats doing the same thing but we had no luck, not sure about the other boats.
Decided to try some bottom bouncing a bit further out, but the sloppy conditions meant we called it a day and got back to the ramp at 12.
Baldie and blackarse fillets for lunch went down a treat....conditions tomorrow are looking worse than today, but Monday looks a bit better.
Hope everyone is having a great Easter...take care and stay safe.
regards
rusty...
If life is boring, you must be doing it wrong!
Reefmonkey
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mmm baldchin
Nice catch,jurien always seems to be baldie central. how was the water clarity out on the 20m line? heading up next week for a few days of diving and fishing. we were up there a few weeks ago just after the fish kill and could barely see your hand infront of your face underwater.
Dave J.
r.gates
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Jurien water
Hi reefmonkey
Visibility wasn't that flash...fishing in 40m we could see colour as the fish got within 5m of the boat and we'd call it within 2m...mind you, that's not that good, either.
The swells weren't helping our cause, but maybe once this weather pattern changes, so might the visibility and the seas hopefully will calm off a bit.
We've seen others with baldies, snapper and dhues so they're up here, just gotta find some ground where the fish want to take our baits...it's a bugger when you see so much red on the sounder but they're not biting.
Oh well, there's always Monday...tomorrow's weather isn't that flash so I think we'll go play golf instead!
regards
rusty...
If life is boring, you must be doing it wrong!
hunterdive
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Baldies on the BBQ would have
Baldies on the BBQ would have to be one of my favourites, beautiful eating flesh. Well done on the catch guys
Tomcat
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Jurian
If weather permits go to back edge of second bank 60 to 90 mt lots of blowies inside 270 from north passage just work the edges short drifts hard work but it pays off
r.gates
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Monday looks ok
Hi Tomcat & hunterdive
Thanks for the headsup....have a few spots from a friend loaded into the GPS...one is in 80m and on our list for Monday.
Looks like we'll be back up here soon....I like what I'm seeing around the town and out on the water...gotta try to turn those 'red marks' on the sounder into fish on the table!! We know they're there, just gotta get 'em in the boat
regards
rusty...
If life is boring, you must be doing it wrong!
Faulkner Family
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looks like you done ok first
looks like you done ok first time out there. them nor westers are a pain in the ass up there, once you get onto them your best off mooving from the area as they hang in schools , been done a few times there. there is some very nice ground out from the south passage but you got to take care as it can be tricky and dangerous . hope to see some more pics from your next trip out
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
clay
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Good work on getting a few
Good work on getting a few fish. Friday was pretty slow everywhere in Jurien from what I could gather. Really weird currents out there I found. We got a mixed bag like you with a snapper, baldie, blackarse and tuna. Hard work for 1/2 day fishing.
A lot of people got onto the tuna and mackeral Saturday, but not wide spread, just in the one area.
Like you, we gave it a miss today (Sunday), but hoping to get out tomrrow for a little while for fish and surf.
Good luck. They're out there!
Bloody big lump here 25.20.703S 131.2.000E