Jurien Bay

Left Perth Friday morning for Jurien under a drab grey sky only to arrive in perfect sunshine.

We set up our tent and decided to go for a look around and a visit to the local tackle shop were we got some great information on what was biting in the area.

We decided to spend the first day fishing off the jetty near the caravan park. We were then introduced to one of the locals who spends a lot of his time just floating around the jetty.

 

Things started out a little slow but then the skippy started biting which resulted in nearly every cast being a hook up. The only problem was actually landing the fish as "Face Ache" (as above mentioned sealine was christenend by a few of the visiting fishos) took it upon himself to fill his belly with the fish we were catching, the little smarty that he is, would wrap your line around the pilons to break you off before he would even attempt tp eat the fish, or he would have a game of tug - a - war with whomever was on the opposite end of teh rod lol.

One we managed to land. 

To add insult to injury the little bugger wouldnt eat it straight away but play with it. Letting it go and then catching it again. Yell 

Over all we cought about 30 skippy with 90% of them being size or over size. We also had a try for Tailor but they were not biting that night.

 

Went up to Sandy Cape on Saturday to do some beach fishing, but there was weed everywhere and it was thick.

So we explored some of the tracks up there and saw some beautiful coastline and some odd buildings.

Anyone know what this is/was used for, we were thinking it was one of shacks that used to be up there.

So Sat night we decided to head back to the jetty and have another go at for tailor. We cast about a bit with a weighted rig with no luck at all. We then decided to just cast an unweighted mulie out and bingo we were on. We ended up catching about 5 that night, would of been more only the mulies were crap and were falling apart.

 

Sunday we went and fished the mouth of the marina, standing on the top of the rocks we could see the fish swimming below, it was unbelievable. Spent 3 hours there and caught another 20 skippy, all released. Stayed here till about 8.30pm only picking up an eagle ray and an undersize tailor, so we headed back to the jetty again.

Sent out the first couple of casts with no return not even a bite. Then bang we were hooked up and my boyfriend bought in this beautiful 32cm tailor on a unweighted mulie. He cast out again and  another one was hooked.

He caught several others after these two but none were size, so all went back to grow a few centemetres more for next time we go up there. Laughing

 

 


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Great report Shortly!

Mon, 2008-05-19 18:25

I enjoyed that! Great report. Great name for the seal LOL. Nice to see you got some tailor in the end! Sorry, can't help with the structure. Nice photos too - especially the ones of the seal. Laughing

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How

Mon, 2008-05-19 18:40

do you insert different pictures with the relevant paragraph under it? AND why is there NO BOLD prompt on my text bar above this piece of writing??? ADAM.......Maxy.......

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Yes not in THAT druppel dialogue header

Mon, 2008-05-19 21:07

But Control B will do it. 

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Mon, 2008-05-19 18:46

Max upload photos to photobucket. When you create a post on here just paste the code that photobucket gives you for a given photo into the relevant part of your post.

Sounds like a decent weekend shortly, thanks for sharing! Never been to Jurien but would like to.

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Jurien Bay

Mon, 2008-05-19 18:55

  Excellent report, Well done

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good repot

Mon, 2008-05-19 20:33

sounds like u guys had a ball........ nice pics 2

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great pics and great report

Mon, 2008-05-19 20:35

great pics and great report looks like you guys had a ball, and i bet the seal thanked you for being there too

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Great stuff Shortly

Mon, 2008-05-19 21:04

Great yarn, great pics and you sound like you all had great fun. Unweighted mulies are definately the go when the fish are a bit picky. I might have to head up to Jurien to give it a go - sounds like a fun fishing experience. Thanks Shortly

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Bunkers

Mon, 2008-05-19 21:20

i believe they are anti aircraft bunkers from wartime??? At the point is also a  memorial , in remembrance of a shark attack victim, cant remeber details tho. nice 4wd in that area...also worth a trip to stock yard gulley caves.

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Thanks everyone. Yes we did

Tue, 2008-05-20 11:03

Thanks everyone. Yes we did have a ball. It was our first time there and will definitely be back again when we need a quick break.

 Seadee, i thought they might of been bunkers as well, but the cray pots hanging off the roof kind of stumped me.