Weekend at Jurien
Hi everyone,
Made a trip up to Jurien last weeken with a few mates to sink a few tinnies and have a fish for the weekend. After shooting up on Friday avo after work we hit the water about 7 on Saturday morning. This being our first fishing trip up there we weren't to sure what expect.
Not knowing any better we started south of the marine park that is out from Sandy cape in about 15m of water, hoping to pick up some whiting and skippy and maybe a flatty if we were lucky. This started off well picking up a couple of good sized skippy before the baby wrasse and other assorted 'vermin' set in, and a couple of fish that looked pretty dam tasty. Not knowing what they were we thought it would be best to throw them back (since then we worked out that we picked up a few Black arse :\ ).
Between releasing a few more wrasse a couple of the boys noticed some sambos circling the boat, and with very little incouragement there were some unweighted pillies hanging overboard.... It didn't take long to hear the drag singing!!! Much to our amazement we picked up a nice school mackerel. Now being new to W.A.... it lead to a quick flick through the rule book and only finding a size for "Mackerel: Spanish" in there. Not knowing if this rule was meant to cover all mackies we released our 730 mm schoolie.... well wasn't that a mistake!
We continued drifting the flats for a while longer, not picking up any whiting that I figured we would be sure to catch! Although I did manage to pick up a schoolie of my own that tipped the 800 mark which made up for the lack of finger food.
As the afternoon dragged on we decided to kill two birds by doing a bit of trawling and searching for some lumpy bottom that we could fish on Sunday. The silver wobbler hooked up almost straight away, but the 5600 abu felt a bit small after a few minutes of solid runs, before a bust off. Well that won't be the last time that happens.......
Sunday wasn't so glassy.... we only hit the water for a short time (but long enough for me to loose a rod overboard). Either way we checked out the reefs infront of Jurien and thought about what next time could bring.
Being the new kid in town a few lessons were learnt, but good stories don't come from that time everything worked out perfectly.
P.S. I've been following the site for some time and it seems like a great online community, I hope I can keep contributing in the future.
grantarctic1
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Date Joined: 03/03/11
Nice report
Nice report mate, good to see you release fish you were not sure about , you will soon work out whats good to keep and leagle. Make sure you carry the latest fisheries species and bag limit books, ive fished WA all my life but still have to check the books now and then just to make sure im staying within the rules. Alot of fish species are being caught up at Jurian that were not common a few years ago , its a very exiting place to fish and close to Perth too.
Cheers Grant .
milsey
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Date Joined: 22/08/07
Stuff mate, we saw a bloke
Stuff mate, we saw a bloke with a schoolie off the jetty sunday morn so there must be a few around.
outdoinit
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Date Joined: 05/10/12
Good Stuff Mate..
Not a bad first trip.. :-)
I've spent half my life fishing.. The other half I have wasted..
southcity104
Posts: 1659
Date Joined: 27/01/09
nice work!
Bout time i got a leave pass. Itching to get back there
"Its a life style job"
MightyBoy
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Date Joined: 05/09/12
Cheers
Yeah keeping fish that you are unsure about is not worth the stress, or fine!
The trip turned out better than I was expecting, I did have a land based trip planned down south in a couple of weeks but might find myself back up there.
On another note, when are the mackies in season over here?
Faulkner Family
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Date Joined: 11/03/08
sounds like a great trip
sounds like a great trip away. great place to fish, there are some great fish to be had out from there but its a case of just doing the time on the water and looking around. pity about the rod over board
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together