jurien 23/9/2010
What an up and down day it was for me.
1am i woke up had shower/breakfast packed my car and left to go pick up johnny boii. Got to his house about 2 am. He had directions printed out from google maps and off we went. Google maps NEVER WILL TRUST AGAIN. We went wayyy past the road we were meant to turn at "jurien east rd" and ended up goin past the next as we now didnt have any idea where to go or anyone to ask or reception to call some one. So we pulled over and found a truckie sleeping in his truck, knocked on his door and asked where to go haha, poor guy.
So then we sort of had an idea where to go but not really. Driving along this time really speedng about 1*0 and there were two dead kangaroos on road and in a quick decision i had to go over the roo. My xr6 copped it and now my car was smellin like burnt roo meat. We took indian ocean road only to realize there is about 95 kms to go and we had 45 min until 6 am boat leaving time but i only had 50 kms of fuel left :s. So traveling at a steady speed so i didnt burn fuel until about 10 kms away clnk clnk clnk car cut out after ridin 0 kms for about 35 kms.
Luckily some one was drivin the opposite way at that exact second so i beeped/flashed them down. They stopped and took me to jurien servo and by this time could finally get reception to call honsu. I called him and it was just after 6 am and they were waiting for us. Honsu came and picked me up with a jerry can and fuel in it. So we raced to my car to give it a bit of juice to get to the port when half way to my car we realized i left it at the servo rushing so much. So back we went, picked it up then back to my car. Filled it up and raced to the boat. It was was then 6:45 and thanks to honsu and crew for waiting we got to board the boat.There was more little bits in the story but too much to explain :) Some great fish were caught and i caught my first fish on plastics and a jig.
First fish caught on plastic was an 84 cm dhuie with the Mcarthy baby elf paddle tail everyone talks about :)
Appreciate you boys waitin for us. Marko
strike_zone
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adventure
now thats what i call an adventure well done
STEVE231
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Nice work mate, but sounds
Nice work mate, but sounds like a full on mission getting there!!!
You don't need shit like that in your life!!
honsu chin
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Here's one of mine....
Well one of the 2 dhuies I got, among a couple of pinkies, sambos, and plenty of sargent bakers.
jng
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hey honsu, what rod and reel
hey honsu,
what rod and reel are you running for your plastic fishing?
Cheers
Justin
honsu chin
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Outfit for plastics
The outfit is Eupro Twincraft 6'2" and Stella 4000
honsu chin
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Good fishing and great weather.
It was a great day out and great company as well.
Sorry Johnny Boii did mostly burleying for the day but did eventually get some good fish.
Hopefully he'll get some pics up soon as well as Dasho and Hlokk
Johnyy_Boii
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yep as mentioned, had a
yep as mentioned, had a retarded trip to get up there with a lot of stress and being worried they'd leave without us, had to call to mates and wake them up at around 5:30am to try get honsus number, one luckily had it and sent us it.
after a few sambos, i started feeling like shit and burleyed up 4-6 times, but in the end it was good, I managed to catch a couple sambos, dhufish, small pinkies and a small tuna..all on smith jigs which were reccommended to me by luke at allboats business..thanks.
only got 2 pictures from my camera.
Nelly
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Sounds like some good fish
Sounds like some good fish where caught and you boys got just a little bit lost!Just follow wanneroo road now it goes all the way to jurien can get there in under 2 hours now.
Markie
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Nelly we sure know that now
Nelly we sure know that now haha took it back home.
Nelly
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Yep just watch out for
Yep just watch out for roo's,Went to wedge last night everyone without a bullbar was doing 80km/h lol!
Markie
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On the way to jurein /
On the way to jurein / DONGARA hahaha there was soooo many scattered on the road. Then on the way back down wanneroo rd seen heeps aswell and emu lol
Dicey
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good to see the day turned
good to see the day turned out for the better marko haha.
Faulkner Family
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sounds like an eventful day.
sounds like an eventful day. our first trip to there we turned off 1 road too early and had about 40klm of gravel. well done on your first on plastic and you cant complain about that one. well done to Honsu for catching all the sb's to keep them away from the others. good to see Johnyy boi didnt give up and ended with a couple of fish to show for all the burley
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
Markie
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yeh defs dicey was an
yeh defs dicey was an awfulll startt. Also Whitey is a very good bloke/skipper and defs will be goin on more trips in the future with him :)
Goodz
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What a disaster start to
What a disaster start to your trip! Well done gettin your first fish on jigs and plastics! That's a nice dhuie mate!
DazSamFishing
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what a story. glad you
what a story. glad you fellas got some good fish though.
JohnF
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Hey Daz, our trip down to
Hey Daz, our trip down to Mandurah does not sound so bad now.......
Anyhow, glad to see you boys got a few fish.
Boston Whaler 235 Conquest......getting the flogging it was built for.
piston broke
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Great story guys
thanks for sharing. cheers Pete
ps its times like that you will laugh about in the future.
Markie
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haha it will take a very
haha it will take a very disasterous trip to beat that one :)
soupster51
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Stress
Nothing like the stress related to thinking you are going to miss out on a fishing trip..... Top write up, provided a bit of a giggle as I'm sure most people have gone through something similar. At least you got some quality fish.
The best reason for doing what's right today is tomorrow.
Markie
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i was 100% we were not going
i was 100% we were not going to get onto that boat when the car died. Thankfully these f/w members waited could not be anymore thankful to honsu, hlok, dasho,(skipper) - whitey and deckie.