Abrolhos trip
Headed over last wednesday for a few days, taking a couple of my kids.
We didnt do alot of fishing this time though we chucked the pots in and bagged out pretty well straight away, and did a bit of trolling for trout close to the island.
Got dhuies, painted sweetlip (I like my neighbours so let them go :-) sweetlip, trout (not quite size) and shark mackeral.
Trip was mainly to do a bit of exploring and catch up with my old boss over there. Plus the kids just have a blast!
mmm-who should I give this to???
this "adventuring business" is hard yakka!
kid sized trout
Trip home was a bit messy, we were going to stay til saturday but as we had to be home midmorning and a strong easterly was forecast, at the last minute on friday arvo we decided to take off.
We got a third of the way back, 12 knt SE so stopped for a fish. By the time we got going again, it was "hello 25kt S/SE"!
Kids handled it fine as always though and we rolled into Hells Gates at 5pm.
a few other pics
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till
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Looks like the kids had a top
Looks like the kids had a top time!
abeldog
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Great Photos
Rob, nothing beats seeing kids smile like that.
How good are the crays there at the moment.
We bagged out on our two drops.
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Rob H
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for sure!
done a few trips over there with the kids now.
After we had our 12 we put a chunk of shark mackeral in a pot and dropped it off the jetty in 1/2 meter of water, with half the neck dry.
The kids kept shining the spotty in there "we wont get any crays here Dad". In the morning theyre straight out of the swag and lo and behold-feelers poking out from one big male!
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dkonig82
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Bloody great work on those
Bloody great work on those crays - making me hungry!
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Adam Gallash
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Yup
All looks pretty good, could go a feed of crays right now. Thanks for the report Rob.
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southcity104
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Thats the plan Rob!!
Great report.
Im waiting for my kids to get old enough and thats where id love to take them.
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alfred
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Great to see the kids have a
Great to see the kids have a great time and top work on the crays.
Rob H
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lures
we dragged the classic red head and a selection of other poppers, deep dive redheads and shiny stuff but the beaten up redhead was the ONLY one to get hit time and again.
Right at the end something smashed it, unstoppable, maybe a slimy and it snapped at the knot.
Depressing to lose it!
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milsey
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Well done mate, Im looking
Well done mate, Im looking at doing a trip there in the coming weeks and that has added fuel to the fire. Beautiful place
oz74
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looks like an awesome
looks like an awesome trip.
good fish and crays - you can put up with an ordinary trip back with results like that.
definitely on my "to do" list
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sounds like you and the kids
sounds like you and the kids had a blast. kids get so excited when they get a fish. the young bloke with the trout , both mouths open is a classic.
feed of dhuie and crays, realy what more could you want
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sunshine
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Your parked up in "The Hole"
Unless I am very much mistaken - I realy enjoyed snorkling there until one evening when a 12 foot tiger meandered up to the rear of the boat - but the tailor at night were something else - are they still haunting the area
Rob H
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yep thats the "bity holes"!We
yep thats the "bity holes"!
We didnt camp there, Im lucky enough to have a jetty to tie up to, but its pretty hard to get permission nowadays. Ive been told stories of camp breakins, often for no apparent reason or maybe alcohol.
Very disappointing as to me its hard to imagine who would make the effort to go all the way out there and get up to that sort of mischief?
We spearfished thru the channel there in January, but Ive never seen a tailor at the islands? The baby trout were like schools of tailor though, dozens in the channel.
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Rob H
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note
all pics that have me in are taken by an 8 yr old mostly with Iphone.
In fact nearly all the pics were taken by the kids.
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kane
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yep well done!
some nice fish / crays and some top photos too kids
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