Cray pots- Plastic or wood...
I'm going to get a couple of pots for the cray season as there is still a few sharks about and I'm not too keen to dive just yet.. What is the difference between plastic, pine, jarrah and kane? I was told once by someone that the plastic work better on the whites and the wooden better later on with the reds.... is that true or BS?
I had some jarrah pro pots with steel bases and they were too big and heavy, the rusty steel made a rite mess of my boat- I didn't catch a thing in them and I got sick of them so in my temper I pulled off a few slatts and the rope and made a mini artificial reef out of them...
What would be a good cray pot to buy that I could have at 10m or out deep in 30-40m and still be able to handle on my own, preferably without the steel base so as not to ruin the floor of my boat again??
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carnarvonite
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Pine
pine pots with jarrah frame for the whites and jarrah or old cane pots for the reds, plastic pots are noy called cakka catchers for nothing. They have a tendency to rock when sitting on the bottom resulting in smaller catches.
The steel bottom pots are by far the best and if you have good anodes in them you shouldn't have too much trouble with rust and shirt falling in your boat.
snappermiles
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wood all the way
in my opinion it doesnt matter what wood just make sure they are heavy and they are soaked! although last year i got 8 crays whilst soaking my old wooden pots
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Oceanside Tackle
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Cray pots
As mentioned wood pots are always better though plastics will still catch. Just make sure they are heavily weighted with ballast to help stop movement.
The most popular pot we sell are the Jarrah base pine slat pots. They are available in both 1 bait basket and two bait basket. These will still need ballast though.
If you want to look at cray pots from Mini Pine and Jarrah to full size comercial pots than we have them all on display and we can give you the run down on everything you need to know.
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Ryan C
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cray pots
hi mate, i worked on a pro crab/cray boat out of esperance a few years back and we used steel, wood and plastic pots and they all catch crays and plenty of jumbos , the key with plastic ones is to put as much weight in them as you can pull up (the heavier the better) and they are fine . cheers
mrwinta
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Cheers guys... I would prefer
Cheers guys... I would prefer to stick with the plastic as they would, even with all the ballast, be a fair bit lighter... and less dammaging to the surface of the boat... there are a few pyramid type plastic pots available which I would think should be more settled and move less...
I was checking them every 1-2 days.... How long does everyone else soak them between checking??
Oceanside- thanks for the offer guys but I have a local shop that really looks after me so I try to stick with them...
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carnarvonite
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Plastics
You don't need to soak plastic pots. Wooden ones need it to get rid of all the air bubbles that come from in the wood.
mrwinta
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yea sorry mate should have
yea sorry mate should have worded that a bit better... I meant once you drop the baited pots, how long do most people leave them between checking...?
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carnarvonite
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Time
Usually every day when the whites are running but a lot depends on what bait you can get because small fish like herring etc will go in 24 hours but orange roughy or hoki heads of the crayfishermans supplier will last for two days, same goes for snapper or dhuey heads that are a lot bigger and can be wired directly in to the pot'making sure they cannot reach them from outside the pot.
Oceanside Tackle
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Pots
Yeah no dramas mate, if you do get stuck let us know.
Just a note for FW members, with the pastic craypots we cut out the escape gaps & basket areas plus fit them also. All the rigging/fitting etc is done at no charge for FW/Oceanside customers. (You just need to pay for the components)
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