Wednesday Jurien Palegics
After seeing Wednesday's weather forecast decided the only sensible thing to do was take the day off work and do a spot of fishing. Packed up the boat, picked up the deckie and we took off up to Jurien hoping for a Mackie or two. On the water at 9 and we were greeted by magic conditions. Went behind the islands and started trawling in the 20's just behind the reef.
Things started off rather quiet with no bait schools on the sounder. We pushed on south and soon spotted a nice looking current line roughly SW of Boulanger Island. As we got close the water errupted around the boat with bait jumping everywhere, tuna launching into the air and in amongst it all sharks getting in on an easy feed!
15 seconds later both rods went off and we were on! After a good fight we had two Yellow Fin Tuna in the boat. You beauty!
With water still bubbling all around us we tried to get the lures back in the water but before I could get the second one out the first got hit again! After another good fight we had a Longtail Tuna in the boat. This went on for a while with both of us boating a number of Longtails in a hot session within sight of Jurien Bay!
The only disappointment at this stage was that we hadn't got into a Mackie yet but this was soon rectified!
We kept the Mackie and the two YFT and released all the Longtails.
Things went quiet after lunch so we tried some bottom bashing but this close in there wasn't much around, the only note worthy capture was a small Dhu on a Daiwa Pirate. The seabreeze picked up so we headed inside the islands, anchored up and had some fun with Herring and Skippy. Back out of the water at 4 and back home at 7. Long day but well worth it, easily the best palegic session I've had this side of Shark Bay!
Water temperateure still above 23deg up there!
Faulkner Family
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great effort. well done
great effort. well done guys, well worth the effort of driving up there
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
till
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Nice Tuna! Certainly worth
Nice Tuna! Certainly worth the drive!
spanishmackeral
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certainley does look worth
certainley does look worth it, well done boys
SHizz
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Looks like a good trip.
Looks like a good trip. Heading up that way soon, cant wait.
grantarctic1
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Wow
I had to read your report twice, you sure thats not Shark Bay. LoL
What an awsome day on the water guy's , nice report and pic's.
Cheers Grant..
westline
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very nice
Oh how i miss jbay after the effort we went to today to get a fish outa ocean reef!!
wrasse magnet
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Thanks guys, really was a
Thanks guys, really was a magic day. With the new road Jurien is definitely a viable option for a fishing day trip. Bit heavy on the wallet with both the car and boat to fill up but with fishing like that I have no complaints!
Auslobster
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Great report!
Sounds like one of those "magic" sessions we dream about! And this is a really good thread to view for those who want to tell the diff between YFT's and longtails, due to the excellent photography...awesome, now I'm thinking about having a couple days off this week and going up there!
adam87
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awsome reportnice catchi like
awsome report
nice catch
i like that u got pic of them smashing the bait i looks great
well done!
deviouskim
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nice fish! would have been a
nice fish! would have been a good day