Paparazi Abrohlos Style

Paparazi Abrohlos Style

Matt Robinson, the supervisor from Fisheries being interviewed for a foxtel special. Matt is a top bloke and certainly looked after us all over there. Can't thank him and his team enough for their hospitality and guidance to make it as safe a boat trip as I have ever done.

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Water testing

Mon, 2008-05-12 19:27

Hey Andy, whats the go in the background, they doing some water testing. Looks like algal blooms??

Did ya get a fish in over at the Abrohlos??

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pretty cool feeding wild

Mon, 2008-05-12 21:00

pretty cool feeding wild fish

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Leo Island

Mon, 2008-05-12 21:10

This is a tidal pool that has some land locked estuary cod in the XOS category. Totally protected sanctuary zone and an awesome place. Sounds like Stoinka would be a good man to share some stories about the island.
We hand fed one of the cod and got some great footage of it all, that will no doubt grace the fishwrecked video pages once I get my act togather.



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Need to save that for the mag article

Mon, 2008-05-12 22:25

Sorry guys.


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Is that Bazza Wiseman with

Tue, 2008-05-13 08:46

Is that Bazza Wiseman with you there Andy?

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Yep

Tue, 2008-05-13 10:31


Baz is a very nice bloke and was good value on the trip.

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what is the name of the

Sun, 2012-01-15 15:36

what is the name of the special that its gona be on foxtel

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4 year old post mate

Sun, 2012-01-15 19:46

look at the dates

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LEOS

Mon, 2012-01-16 02:20

ah leos island and the boys are feeding the big!! cod that inhabit the lake there! they are so cool to feed by hand! and good ol matty looking the part telling the journos how it is! for those of you that havent been to leos it is the most amazing island out of the whole abrohlos and those cod are pretty special! we were feeding them whole dhui heads last year on our way back down to perth!

 

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Very special spot tangles

Mon, 2012-01-16 08:56

 Even the dhingy ride over there was pretty special. Those surrounding shallow waters are beautiful. I must have taken 50 photos in half an hour, all of something different to look at.

 

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Great work

Mon, 2012-01-16 09:32

Andy, a truly treasured place.

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true

Mon, 2012-01-16 21:33

true andy, on the way back with the magellan in sept last year we stayed there for 3 days, didnt want to leave, had smoking leos breaking all to ourselves! ridiculous fishing, lost count of how many dhuies i released and those cod in the lake were insane! especially when u see them coming strait to ya and taking a whole dhui head out ya hands! my old boss bowser tried to get on that island but the boys that are on there now arent going anywhere! worse thing is they dont surf and leos is prob one of the best breaks there apart fm supers! cant wait to get to that island again hopefully on the way up to exi in march! love the islands

 

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Hey guys i see you found my

Thu, 2012-01-26 18:22

Hey guys i see you found my old stompin ground i was raised on the abrohlos and we even lived at leos when  i was 3 months old and still have original photos of the ORIGINAL Potatoe cod that were there !!!

There were 3 but back in the 80s or 90s  Alantis which was next to under water world in hilliaries for some reason grabbed all 3 of them and put them into tanks !! 1 didnt make it the other 2 lived for years until alantis shut down the under water world grabbed the pair , around 2000 1 of them died and now there is just the 1 left i havnt caught up with him for a couple of years but the last time i did was bout 4 years ago .

I always make the effort to speak to the people running the aquarium there and ask about me old mate !!! apperantley he was a bit cheeky when they first got him but now after a bit of training is very good.

Remember when Steve Irwin held his son Jack over to the croc and pulled him away i think either my Dad or my Mum still have the photos of my Dad holding me the same way over the lagoon there feeding the big cod and holding me in almost the same way these fish were big back then and im 32 now !!

 

LOVE THE ISLANDS !!

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gone

Thu, 2012-01-26 22:57

unfort mate they killed the two big ones in the lagoon a while ago apparently because they were eating the other fish in there! shame really because they were awsome fish! my boss bowser used to tell me stories of those bohemuths! if your gona put a creature like that into  a lagoon knowing well and truely how big theyll get then why the hell would you kill it when it gets too big! anyway hopefully the ones they have in there now will grow to the size of the old ones and hopefully they will not kill these ones.

 

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yea Tangles im hearin ya !! i

Fri, 2012-01-27 16:53

yea Tangles im hearin ya !! i remember as a kid seeing other fish and port jackson and wobbies all in the lagoon but the cod made short work of all of them !!

I used to love going over ther and feeding them !! theres a crack in an island at southern group where a mate of mine lived last name thorn his old man had that twin hull jet boat called ????????? fark just lost it !!!!!!! any way me mate (richard) as a kid put a slimy in this crack which u couldnt see the bottom and ive got a feeling its a least 20m deep, we went over ther a couple of years ago and the cod is still there bout 12kg now and still living strong