First blue marron

Got my first blue marron snaring last night.. Quite big around 115mm. 

How common are they? 

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in the wild id think their

Sun, 2016-01-24 20:21

in the wild id think their not that common

however my son and I got our bag limit of the common black ones this arvo

copper is on the boil as I type

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not very

Sun, 2016-01-24 22:14

 Only ever caught 1 myself about 3 years ago 

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I seldomly see many blue

Mon, 2016-01-25 09:06

I seldomly see many blue ones

I always thought the colouring was to do with the water though?

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Should of put that in a tank

Mon, 2016-01-25 10:27

 there is a company that breeds them. The Japanese market love anything that's different 

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Rare

Mon, 2016-01-25 12:19

 Caught probably hundreds of river marron(10 years living in Bridgetown) and only ever got one blue one, that was in a dam near Walpole

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No need to breed.

Mon, 2016-01-25 14:34

the blue colour is from being in very clean water. They will all turn blue in clean water after a few months. 

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samson river

Sat, 2016-01-30 14:32

The Samson river in Waroona below the dam always had a lot of small blue marron.great fun watching them walk around.I always believed it was the water quality and high oxygen content.The 2 that I snared that were size had very hard shells and I kept them in an aquarium.When they changed shell they were black again.

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We get blues in one dam at

Fri, 2016-02-05 23:01

We get blues in one dam at the family farm on the outskirts of boyup. The rest are all black. Ive always wondered what causes them to be blue. Now ive got a feeling its the water and amount of oxygen they get in that particular dam.

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