bee hive cray pots.
Submitted by sp4lyf on Tue, 2010-11-09 21:45
amping for cray season so me and my dad have knocked up some bee hive pots from 8mm reo bar. we followed the specification on the fisheries website and all but were still unclear on what is allowed to go on the outside..
we were thinking of putting just rabbit wire. like the real thick gauge stuff...does any1 know if ur alowwed to or does it HAVE to be cane. any1 heard of using thick split bambo because i know that bends well.
cane isnt that accessible for us at the moment and tea tree would take forever..
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Faulkner Family
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not too sure on the wire.
not too sure on the wire. the bamboo would probably do the trick but as there is lots of air trapped inside of that stuff it may cause probs. main thing is to have the correct gap size in it
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sp4lyf
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yeah been worried about the
yeah been worried about the bamboo, hopefully it should work after a good soaking...
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no harm in trying apart from
no harm in trying apart from the time doing it
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Get some advice from the experts at Fisheries, I'm sure they will help.
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carnarvonite
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Tea tree
Normally they have cane necks and swamp sticks/tea tree sides with thicker cane on the base protected by a jarrah board. When the pot starts to lose shape after a season the wire it up using heavy guage chicken mesh.Some use the green plastic covered wire.
Pretty sure you can use what you like as long as the neck, diameter, height and escape gaps conform with the regulations.
When you build it make sure that the pot is solid and doesn't move in itself because the crays won't go in somrthing that wobbles or makes a noise.
sp4lyf
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thx for the advice mate, yea
thx for the advice mate, yea she's pretty solid haha...
just gonna wrap it up in the wire for now or some sort of combo, so we can get it in in time.
i heard on another forum that u can put pots in before the 15th. is that right????
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15th
You can put your pots in on the 14th and the first pull is after dawn on the 15th