Nrth Abrolhos island

 Left gero last Thursday got back in Tuesday morn . Boys boss has  a 65 foot Randell . Trip of a lifetime . I was itching for first drop by the end (really .) Only using small circles. 2 rigs . I used my rod  95 percent of time ,also handline, caught all sorts of cod. Emperor . Dhues. Pinks. Trout. Even good old black ass. To many types to mention . Night time was mint .we would anchor Anywhere from 40 to 60 meters.( got ruff at times) got flung out of bunk first night. Huge squid would come around not matter where we where. Big v8 occy. Snakes and flying fish . I would definately do it again . Learnt a heap of the skipper. 

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 Looks like a sweet trip,

Fri, 2017-05-05 07:30

 Looks like a sweet trip, definately on my bucket list. Cheers for adding fuel to my abrolhos fire.  good fish too

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some nice fish in that lot

Fri, 2017-05-05 07:52

 would love to go there one day

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 Rippa. Rankin is huge

Fri, 2017-05-05 09:33

 Rippa. Rankin is huge

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 Epic 

Fri, 2017-05-05 10:11

 Epic 

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 How good is that 

Fri, 2017-05-05 10:18

 How good is that 

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Awesome

Fri, 2017-05-05 10:20

 What an opportunity and looks like you guys made the most of, good job.

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 Nice fish johnny. Solid

Fri, 2017-05-05 12:01

 Nice fish johnny. Solid spango and rankin!

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 Some nice fish for sure!

Fri, 2017-05-05 12:39

 Some nice fish for sure!

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Great trip LJ

Fri, 2017-05-05 12:52

Big range of fish & big fish too 

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Commercial fishing?

Fri, 2017-05-05 13:36

 Commercial boat?
Great ground up there.
Noone could wrestle up a smile?

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Fri, 2017-05-05 16:50

 Nice bit of fishing there LJ, and not an occy in site.

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 Sweet....well done 

Fri, 2017-05-05 18:50

 Sweet....well done 

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Rob h yes

Fri, 2017-05-05 19:18

 Eye opener for me . Dan Loves it. ( new job)And I did get my licence prior to going.Very impressed . No rape and pilage . Harvesting 1 spot x amount of fish then leave . Itching to go again. The care they take of fish blew me away. The guys do it hard . At dock 95 percent local buyers . Which also impressed me.

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 Its not an easy life, thats

Sat, 2017-05-06 21:25

 Its not an easy life, thats for sure.
I dont really know of any commercial fishery that is "easy", though crays have certainly changed alot but the pressure is different.

Everytime I hear someone say "I love going fishing, I want to work on a fishing boat/longliner/trawler/charter boat etc" I struggle not to roll my eyes

Instead think, boy have you got a suprise coming...

Kind of like lusting after a woman for a long time only to find when you get there, she's a bitch! 

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 I used to watch the cray

Sat, 2017-05-06 21:58

 I used to watch the cray boys outta Seabird when they were there Rob go out in all kinds of shit weather and used think they can have that. It's a romantic thought but I only ever would want to do it for fun. 

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 Guess i cant talk, here I am

Sat, 2017-05-06 22:50

 Guess i cant talk, here I am 25 yrs later...

Mind you while I loved it and no regrets at all it certainly is good to go to sea just to go somewhere or do something.
Not to have to fish til full then return

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Lol

Sun, 2017-05-07 08:12

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 Nice fish there mate. Just

Thu, 2017-05-11 04:08

 Nice fish there mate. Just curious, is yourskippers name Wrenny?

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Nah Fred

Thu, 2017-05-11 06:04

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What Rob said

Fri, 2017-05-12 06:39

 I loved fishing and diving from an early age, and kept doing both even when I was making my living from them. Nowadays? Certainly over diving on snagged pots, and the last few years of mixing crayfishing and off-season wetlining cured me of any attachment to bottom bashing--very rarely, if ever, head west nowadays, got all the marks,still,  just CBF.

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 Blue Striker hey? Fred still

Sun, 2017-05-14 22:06

 Blue Striker hey?

 

Fred still got his pet bird?

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Funny yes he

Mon, 2017-05-15 06:19

 Has. And it attacks you.

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 Haha classic. I used to work

Mon, 2017-05-15 16:56

 Haha classic. I used to work for the Fillipous who own that boat, but I worked on there other shitheap boats Conquistador and Southern Lady II. They hate doing any work to any of their boats. 

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Gero!

Fri, 2017-05-19 13:06

Yo Johnny .... what ya doing so far north of Rockingham haha

Nice fish landed and I did a few stints decky work (Lano North) on the Blue Striker when my step bro Jason was skipper for Vic ..... solid boat!

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Yep vic

Fri, 2017-05-19 18:03

 Owns few boats now. Guys leaving gero next few days heading to canarvan for 3 months.