Abrolhos Islands trip - March 14

[Ben Derecki]

I went out to the Abrolhos Islands a couple of months ago on a four day charter. It's a pretty speccy part of Western Australia. We got onto a mix of fish over those days, a lot of pink snapper came over the gunnels, a few WA dhufish plus plenty of baldchin groper, samsonfish, a couple of coral trout etc.

I'll let the pics do the talking. Was a good trip all up.

[Ben Derecki]

Couple more...

[Angus]

Inserted pictures.

Awesome trip Ben great to here from you.

Those WA Dhus look awesome. Obviously hard fighter?

Is that a crushed lobster in one of the snapper mouths?

[Old Scaley]

Beats the hell out my most recent charter. Things must be good in WA if you are using lobster for bait.

[Ben Derecki]

Haha, yep it is a cray tail hanging out of the snapper's mouth. The Abrolhos Islands are crayfish central at that time of the year, every year they pull out >8,000 tonnes of the prickly cockroaches in a 3.5 month season. As a result the fish that eat them are pretty well fed!

Dhuies are okay Gus but they're not dynamic like a tuna or a large snapper. They've got a solid first run and then they pull a bit like a freight train, which is still fun!, but it's not a bullet.

The Islands are about 70kms offshore so charters are always for a couple of days.

Thx for the insert too, not sure what happened there.