Islands in a Day
gday crew....
thought id post up a bit of a thread on a quickie i did to the abrolhos last thursday. Main plan was to spear again with my buddy rob but first priority was to get the girl onto a good dhu. Fished some of my really hot spots but the fish where just shut down - strong north current didnt help at all. In the end with time slipping away she was content with her pb groper of about 6kg... a very nice fish indeed... we did catch 3 just legal dhus along with 2 big trout and another couple of baldies but these where released as rob and i wanted to throw some jewelery around for a nice trout or groper to wear!
Ended up doing 3 different drops - the first promised a bit but after doing a few dives we moved on - seen one thumper groper that didnt wanna play and left a nice trout in the hope of something bigger. rob picked off a 60cm groper to open the account... some of the ledges full of crays have to be seen to be believed.. the 2 pics i have here are nothing compared to what is there... amazing to see crays so thick standing on top of each other off the roof the works... and they are almost all well over size... a shame we are not aloud to nab a couple at the abrolhos.. anyways back to diving and the 2nd spot proved fruitless.... murky water in 14m with a 30m drop not far beyond didnt feel all that comfortable and the lack of fish didnt help either...
the 3rd spot was unbelieveable - took abit of coverage to find in 9m but suddenly the fishlife just blew us away... the amount of buff bream phenominal mixed in with countless big skippy and big sand snapper some that where well over 8kgs... again ledges full of crays everywhere and the odd nice baldie about.. i knocked off a nice one not long into the dive after chasing it with the safety on lol - one silly groper thats for sure... then we stumbled along the trout honey hole... they appeared from everyyyyywhere! i got the biggest of the 2 at 680mm not a monster but a damn nice fish.. this bugger didnt wanna know me took 3 dives to knock off but in the end a long shot ended his day... this spot was unreal and after stoning our last fish a beaut groper right under the boat rob and i took the cameras back and spent maybe 1hr chasing picks... the trout where co-operative with one thumper bearing the scar from a spearo from awhile back... there would have been maybe 10-15trout in a space of 20m square it was awesome...
anyways hope u enjoy the quick write up and pics crew
poddyfish!
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nice
nice
danno
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nice pics mate and great
nice pics mate and great feed.
is that 3 coral trout ther on the plate coral??
good stuff.
cheers danno
Paully
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Fantastic effort mate
and great pics too - well done. How long did you travel for to get there?
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well done to the girl with
well done to the girl with her pb baldie. would have been great swimming amongst that lot. you werent kidding about the crays. no wonder the cray fishos got their limit early with so many around. love the close up of the trout
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milsey
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those crays are crazy, well
those crays are crazy, well done
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goin off
Going off podman, those crays are insane!
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poddyfish
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danno there are actually 4 trout in that pic dude.. 3 dark ones and a close look reveals the lighter one near the buffy in centre of pic... every one of em was well over legal lol... yeah the cray where unreal thats for sure... last trip over we dove some ledges similar to that but packed with jumbos.. paully it takes about 1 3/4 hr to get there weather depending dude
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Excellent shots
Love those underwater shots, great effort!!
Lucky Tim
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I likey the Abrolhos very
I likey the Abrolhos very much. We saw some ledges pretty full of crays at our stay in the Wallabi's but nothing like they're packed in there.
I guess the weather is a good thing keeping some of the crowds awaybut I reckon if I lived in Gero I'd be out there more often than not.
Been loving the spearo and underwater photos lately Poddy, keep them coming.
Marky
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Nice one Poddyfish.... Some
Nice one Poddyfish.... Some great underwater shots there and fish...Looks like paradise... keep em coming...
Gully
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Jeez - seeing those crays
Jeez - seeing those crays like that makes you cry that you cant get them.
Looks like an unreal trip there guys and girls - nice work
Paul G
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A great day trip and love
A great day trip and love the pics well done to the pb baldie.am going to get over there one day
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nice work poddy
see you out there soon