Abrolhos Anzac Day Wkend
We've been trying for years to line up our annual Abrolhos trip with Anzac Day to get stuck into the famous Two-Up game but so far never made it. We got closer than ever this year but with big swells and strong winds forecast we had to leave late the afteroon before. 
Try again next year!
We launched early in the morning with strong 25-30kt easterlies blowing but with the winds forecast to drop we decided we couldnt wait and took off anyway and ended up with a much slower than usual 2 hour trip over to the islands with annoying seas. Almost as soon as we got there the winds started dropping and we scored some of the best weather we've had over there with glass conditions for most of the trip. Fishing was good with heaps of demersals. Plenty of Dhus, trout, baldies and pinkies and we found quite a few spanglies which is a first for us. Pelagics were super quite which was dissapointing despite heaps of trolling. One glassy day we had birds bombing around us, massive schools of bait with mackeral cleary visible lurking below and despite throwing almost the whole tackle bag at them we landed only one. Was very frustrating and I'm blaming the full moon masybe??...I had heard reports of the sharks being quite bad over there recently but we didnt lose much gear or fish thankfully. One of the highlights was throwing stickbaits at trout in 2-4mtrs of crystal clear water.
There was some serious $$$ in large motor yachts over there with crew stopping off on the way north to Exmouth, Monties and the Kimberleys. We had a couple of 40-50 footers troll past us one morning with 6-8 lads on the marlin board while we were jigging in 15-20mtrs.
I got in contact with Matty from bluewateradventurecharters.com.au (site sponsor) before we left and he happily threw a few extra bags of ice on board to top us up halfway. We caught up with the boys over there fro a couple of frothys and they're all a bunch of legends! Glenalen is a weapon of a boat and Matty definately know his way around the islands.
We ended up burning 450L of fuel after a super econimical 38kt 40min trip home. As usual the trip went way too fast and already hanging for next year!
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Stevo81
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Aaaarrrgghhh!
WTF! Why does this happen?? Im posting from iMac using the IMG code when copying link from photo bucket....
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Boydy
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Lucky they're shit hot
Lucky they're shit hot pictures, didn't mind looking at them a few times!
Looked like an awesome trip, how greedy is the first trout, that popper looks friggin huge.
Vinesh87
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Awesome trip!
Awesome trip!
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Double up.
Double up. Hahahahhahahhaha
Epic looking trip
Adam Gallash
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Yep
Not sure why theres 2 of each pics, but not complaining either!!
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Rick
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Great trip
looks like a great trip . Some good fish and some great photos
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Paul_86
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Awesome trip man, looks like
Awesome trip man, looks like you guys smashed plenty of trout!
Nice boat too!
timmy k (not verified)
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Looks like a great trip
Awesome photos mate, I like all of em but the second last shot of the horizon is fucken magic! It's like I'm there. Cheers dude
beau
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Good trip with great weather!
Good trip with great weather! I spoke to the saltwater charters crew today and they said pelagics have been very quiet compared to previous seasons for them too.
If for the rest of my life i could i only do one style of fishing it would be surface fishing for trout at abrolhos, so epic and they hit hard!
meglodon
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Does it get much better than that
I don't think you could get a much better trip than that, thanks for the report and really great pics very much enjoyed.
azza1
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Wow, looks like an awesome
Wow, looks like an awesome trip. Didnt mind looking at the pics twice either. Thanks for sharing.
Bootboot
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Sweet report with some
Sweet report with some awesome photos, thanks for sharing!!
kirky79
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All been said
Looks awesome. Thanks for posting
DTrain
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Great report and some great
Great report and some great pictures there.
We crossed over to Pelsart island on the Saturday morning when that easterly was blowing its tits off. It was a bit wet and wild in our 6 meter boat. But after that initial crossing the wind dropped off and it was glass for the whole weekend. Couldn't have asked for better weather.
Callum24
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Awsome mate great photos fish
Awsome mate great photos fish and post cheers
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sea-kem
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Fantastic post Stevo! I see
Fantastic post Stevo! I see you have a Demon Blood like me
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Nice pics mate!! Awesome to
Nice pics mate!! Awesome to catch up for a beer was a good weekend!