ithink its gona be an early whites run and the fact the swell coming up is gona send em all deep. w had our first pull today for 30kg day off 2mw! good looking crays soft but not enough of em!
yep its gona be an early whites and its prob the same as last season down there theyve gone out deep already! put on ya 80fthm ropes and 8 floats boys!!!
was getting a few today till I lost the ball off the end of my snare then it was hopeless kept lossing them good jumbos one went 2.5 kg no whites all reds
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot
I went out saturday morning on a mates boat and 2 of the boys on board went Scuba Diving for them. We left from Ocean Reef and headed for the rocks just north or the marina. There were heaps of boats out (we got there at 8am and there would have been about 200 trailers in the carpark) Where we went diving there would of been about 10 other boats within a few hundred metre's all doing the same thing. Visibility was pretty poor and they only really saw 3 crays which retreated into a hole and could not be reached.
we went fishing close by for a few hours afterwards and my mate Carl landed a 50 - 55cm leatherjacket. There was plenty of yellowtail and reef fish around but that was about it. It was pretty light hearted fishing and we didn't really expect to catch much anyway. We hooked a ray on the smallest rod that we had out which was loaded with 6lb line but could not stop it.
when we got back to the boat ramp at about 12.30 midday we watched a guy with a nice 6.8m centre concole that looked pretty much like new try and pull his boat out of the water with the outboard still all the way down and it tore the bottom of his motor. He then spent the next few minutes trying to pull about 3 tonne worth of boat out of the water with a Falcon ute without an LSD diff. It spun the right rear tyre like a burnout comp at Motorvation and eventually someone yelled out to his mate standing there to stand on the drawbar to put some weight over the back wheels to get traction. I felt a bit sorry for him cos alot of people were getting a bit frustrated. The guy next to us at the ramp said that he just went out to drop his potts and whilst throwing out the last pot of his he saw someone come along and pull his 1st pot up within 5 minutes of it being in the water!! he confronted the guy who said that he made a mistake and thought it was his but he is lucky that he didn't get his head punched in i would say. He managed to get the guys boat rego so hopefully he gets pinged for it but who knows.
conditions started off really nice but the wind came in pretty quickly. Most likely go again this weekend and see if we can do better this time.
yeah ive seen the same thing! I heard one guy over the radio last year ask if anyone had seen 2 pots just out of mindarie as he'd thought someone had stole them........Apparently he found them on the way back in as the tide was lower!lol. Dickhead.
people are probably pulling your pots before you you get out there yourself. maybe chain a massive anchor with a lock at the top, attached to the boy ? and then unlock the anchor, and then pull the the pot. stop other idiots trying to pull them like scano said.
THE GERMAN
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CRAYS
yeh i nailed 3 size today just got the tank in for service ,got a hire one for tommorow. going early as ive got a wedding on in the afternoon.
sherbert
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Date Joined: 10/09/06
My m8
Got 7 but that was 4 guys, Not alot around they had to go deep for them
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tangles
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Date Joined: 17/12/06
early run
ithink its gona be an early whites run and the fact the swell coming up is gona send em all deep. w had our first pull today for 30kg day off 2mw! good looking crays soft but not enough of em!
ROCKPOM
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Date Joined: 23/04/07
Heaps of crays south of
Heaps of crays south of rotto but all deep!!!!
tangles
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Date Joined: 17/12/06
early whites
yep its gona be an early whites and its prob the same as last season down there theyve gone out deep already! put on ya 80fthm ropes and 8 floats boys!!!
Shag
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Date Joined: 15/10/06
Im going out with one of my
Im going out with one of my mates on monday hes just got his own cray boat no longer working for his old man hope he has a good season CHEERS SHAG
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sherbert
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Date Joined: 10/09/06
One of your m8s is the word
You only got one LOL o and street lol
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Bill
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Date Joined: 24/03/07
was getting a few today till
was getting a few today till I lost the ball off the end of my snare then it was hopeless kept lossing them good jumbos one went 2.5 kg no whites all reds
There's a fine line between fishing and just standing on the shore like an idiot
scano
Posts: 1246
Date Joined: 31/05/07
I went out saturday morning
I went out saturday morning on a mates boat and 2 of the boys on board went Scuba Diving for them. We left from Ocean Reef and headed for the rocks just north or the marina. There were heaps of boats out (we got there at 8am and there would have been about 200 trailers in the carpark) Where we went diving there would of been about 10 other boats within a few hundred metre's all doing the same thing. Visibility was pretty poor and they only really saw 3 crays which retreated into a hole and could not be reached.
we went fishing close by for a few hours afterwards and my mate Carl landed a 50 - 55cm leatherjacket. There was plenty of yellowtail and reef fish around but that was about it. It was pretty light hearted fishing and we didn't really expect to catch much anyway. We hooked a ray on the smallest rod that we had out which was loaded with 6lb line but could not stop it.
when we got back to the boat ramp at about 12.30 midday we watched a guy with a nice 6.8m centre concole that looked pretty much like new try and pull his boat out of the water with the outboard still all the way down and it tore the bottom of his motor. He then spent the next few minutes trying to pull about 3 tonne worth of boat out of the water with a Falcon ute without an LSD diff. It spun the right rear tyre like a burnout comp at Motorvation and eventually someone yelled out to his mate standing there to stand on the drawbar to put some weight over the back wheels to get traction. I felt a bit sorry for him cos alot of people were getting a bit frustrated. The guy next to us at the ramp said that he just went out to drop his potts and whilst throwing out the last pot of his he saw someone come along and pull his 1st pot up within 5 minutes of it being in the water!! he confronted the guy who said that he made a mistake and thought it was his but he is lucky that he didn't get his head punched in i would say. He managed to get the guys boat rego so hopefully he gets pinged for it but who knows.
conditions started off really nice but the wind came in pretty quickly. Most likely go again this weekend and see if we can do better this time.
Salmo
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Date Joined: 15/08/05
Yep....blanking out so far
Dropped our pots in last wednesday.....two pulls for squat so far....
I talked to a bloke at the ramp on Friday and he had already lost one to theives
Dives reported a lot of soft shells deep under the ledges......not ready to walk out yet....
SPESS
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yeah ive seen the
yeah ive seen the same thing! I heard one guy over the radio last year ask if anyone had seen 2 pots just out of mindarie as he'd thought someone had stole them........Apparently he found them on the way back in as the tide was lower!lol. Dickhead.
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keeny
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Date Joined: 11/02/08
get out early
people are probably pulling your pots before you you get out there yourself. maybe chain a massive anchor with a lock at the top, attached to the boy ? and then unlock the anchor, and then pull the the pot. stop other idiots trying to pull them like scano said.
Bodie
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Been getting quite a few as
Been getting quite a few as of late..
In shallow!! 6-10m
Not big by any means, but still getting some. Pro's are also in very close!