Crays in Perth.
Submitted by adamlikesfishing on Wed, 2010-11-17 15:14
Im looking to get into some Crays this season just looking for a couple of pointers. I will mostly be free diving and have heard people do okay in 5-7m of water off hillarys and areas like that when there in close. This true? Also are there Crays in close all season with more at certain times or are they all in at the same time and all out deep at the same time?
No heros thanks just looking for pointers not exact locations or anything like that.
Cheers
sherbert
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In close now
Later on?????, Cant help you
Try looking were the pots are drop by the pros
Assassin landbase fishing club
Auslobster
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At the moment...
...most of the inside stuff is few and far between. Did hear of some bag limits off White Hills, near the beach, but it was reds.
Wait until after the full moon on Sunday, the whites will harden up and my guess is that they will fire from mid to late next week. If you have any particular near shore reefs in mind, they will be a goer then.
D_DOUSH
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Just dont dive on pros pots
Just dont dive on pros pots or ill winch the pot with your hand in it. From hillarys any of the shallow reefs where theres abit of sand will have crays but at the moment they will be deep in the ledges.
Auslobster
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Hey D Doush...
...are you guys allowed to work weekends this year? I thought you would be but the lady I talked to at Fisheries last week said no...would've thought that since you're fishing to quotas now it wouldn't matter what days you went out?
wicked game
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definetly not worth going
definetly not worth going out at the monent it is VERY quiet.
as auslobster said they should start to fire late next week or early the week after.
and nah mate we cant work weekends
poddyfish
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dive
went for a quick dip this arvo local (gero)... seen a few but nothing to write home about - vis was attrocious and surgy as hell and as DDoush said every cray we saw was veeeery deep in the ledges.... wont stop me going for a look on days off but im thinking mid next week will see them fire for us here! hope so anyways
Fear The Spear............!
deepwater
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Crays in perth
this time of the year i use to dive the small rock off 2 rocks and get crays off there ,once they move out they are a little harder to find but a good spot to start ,
this has been i whill since i have been there
pm if you like
jeff
Reefmonkey
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Looking for sand
If looking for shallow water spots,
I always look for sand leading up to under cut reef ledges for crays, much easier to loop the cray especially if limited time on free dive, rocky cracks through out the reefs can usually provide to much area for a cray to hide or back into.
I go out and sound around sand patches look for ledges that are protected from the swell ie. the swell/surge rolls over as opposed to rolls into. as only rarely you will find a cray under a ledge that is all stirred up
Dave J.
Bodie
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yep probably 2-3 weeks off
yep probably 2-3 weeks off the crays hardening up and porbably starting to move.
By the sounds of it, alot of females with eggs in the deeper stuff.
My pots will go in weekend after next(going to Karratha chasing some reds this weekend!!!!)
Will be the latest start for me in the last 3 years.
D_DOUSH
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i think it will be sooner
i think it will be sooner than that bodie, after what we seen today.