Count the crays
Submitted by crano on Sat, 2016-11-19 10:18
Had a dive yesterday at a pretty good spot. It would be interesting to know how many crays are there. We took 16 and I think that would be less than 10 percent of what was there. We will now leave that spot alone till next season
Doc
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Now that's a bloody good
Now that's a bloody good day, great video too
Bodie
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That's insane!about 20m deep
That's insane!
about 20m deep or so?
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Bloody norah! Nice.
Bloody norah! Nice.
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Whoa !!!
Jumbo city man !! That's frigging Awsome !
talk about pic and choose !! Those legs on
those would be a feed in its self !!
stephenm
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Awesome footage mate. Good
Awesome footage mate. Good honey hole
tot
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WOW
epic ledge, great footage, thanks for sharing.
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Awesome
just awesome
Adam Gallash
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Jumbos
Absolute hooters, what a spot.
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hayden
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Crano I reckon you took more
Crano I reckon you took more than 16 ya greedy bugger just like those reds in coral bay gotta keep an eye on you mate typical buno blokes hahaha
Hope all is good mate
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the bloody things wanted to
the bloody things wanted to be caught
Krusty
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Bloody great spot you have
Bloody great spot you have found there and loved the vid.
Nice work
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Fark!
Fark!
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Maate, that's nuts. I set it up to watch on our TV and that gave us some scope, it was unreal. Some of those cray were a fair size too.
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bradz
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Far out.
Wish I had the guts to dive.
Good work.
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Red Dog
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Brilliant - thanks for
Brilliant - thanks for sharing
Boydy
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Wow
Just wow.....
crano
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Bodie
More like 35m
Hayden When do you get to coral bay ? I hope I get there before you so I can clean out your spots.
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That is just sick! I'm gonna
That is just sick! I'm gonna dream about that tonight.
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awesome stuff
great viewing - thanks.
out of interest, what's the smaller rope that one of you bring down used for?
you need bigger catch bags haha....
crano
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Rope
It is tied to the boat at one end and the other is tied to one of us in case the anchor rope breaks. We don't like 20 mile swims.
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Geeez!
Cracking spot and footage. Cheers for sharing Crano
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What a spot!!!!!!
thanks for the footage.
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that bought back good
that bought back good memories. Used to dive a spot in 40 metres out from Mandurah, spitting image of that except for all the kg`s hanging around
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Your F##) kidding me
Very cool , gets me inspired. That's alot of big males looking after the harem.
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Have hit the jackpot
What a honey hole. That's like getting the cray jackpot
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Pretty cool
Spot that one. Great footage.
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Well done.
I went out last year off of Bunbury and had a similar experience in 35m of water, the male jumbos were all sitting on top of the plate coral, easy picking for the 12mins of air time!
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Great Vid
Wow what a great spot, some big crays in there, well done
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hayden
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Crano ya dreaming mate I'm
Crano ya dreaming mate I'm taking all your honey spots mate we are there from the 27th mate with the hole family
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That's amazing, the size of
That's amazing, the size of some of those crays and the amount of them.
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Amazing ledge
Amazing ledge there.....would be great to hear the story how you stumbled across it.
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Epic
Epic video, thanks for sharing.
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Brock O
Found it while sounding about 10 years ago.We did not dive it until about 2 years after as believe it or not we did not think it looked that good on the sounder although did not have the best sounder in those days.
We put my home made drop camera down on it one day and saw heaps of whiskers and have been diving it ever since although we dont go there very often as besides the crays it is not the most interesting spot and have only ever shot one dhu there.
No accident finding it as I do countless hours of sounding every year.
Brock O
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Cheers Crano...35s a long
Cheers Crano...35s a long way for nothing so the camera make perfect sense, had a lot of hit miss myself over the year...more misses but always hoping for that one ledge.
Did see a short vid on a spot a guy found of Hillarys, same 35 meters very little show on sounder but full of small plate corals choc a block with jumbos...think he called it the supermarket.
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Wow
But Crano it would be worth a second dive to see if it is a transient "settlement".
We once anchored up for lunch near Rotto between dives and the anchor was stuck. Free dived to see it settled in a hole in the platform reef. Trying to free it we discovered it was chockers with crays. Didn't even need a snare as it was easier to just grab them as it was stuffed and poor buggers had almost no room to move.
Went back twice to the "honey hole" for not one, so I suspect what we had then was a White run all settled in this hideaway spot, but as youngsters we were to excited to care with the bounty to worry whether they were reds or whites (in those days as poor Uni students didn't really care - a feed was a feed)
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