It wasn't me who you saw, but do you know it is just sand? Have you dived that exact spot? I went out with a guy who had 2 spots that were tiny little limestone rocks, about 30cm high, no bigger than a car. On the sounder it was nothing, you would go straight over it with no idea it was there. On that day the giveaway was 3 pro pots surrounding it. Turns out the rock held a massive cray population.

The reason I say this is because we were accused of the same thing, but unless you have been down on that spot, you just don't know, and to throw accusations about is not nice without 1st hand knowledge.

Well said Cammos - I dived a very similiar scenario 2 weeks ago.  Yes, there were pro pots in the area (My anchor in fact missed the pot by 2 metres - mis judged the current curve of the pot line).

Same as you, very, very low structure (less then .5 mtr) spread over about 30-50 sqaure metres, but with hundreds of crays in the vicinity trying to hide under anything.  The pots had been pulled and were full again!

If you stayed still the crays would hide under you.

This only happens with the whites over a short time period.

Save the gun fire for those pulling others pots or stealing pots...Oh and the vis was exceptional on Saturday up at Two Rocks aswell.

Cheers Pete

vis was excellent.

Was out round rotto and coming back over FFB, could see everything from 15+m

It glassed off and could clearly see the reefs, fish etc from the boat.

585 zoomed to only read the bottom 5 metres full screen (Thanks Honsu the tip worked perfectly - there was no question whatever that the pots were set to pick up crays moving offshore, you could actually see the pots sitting on the bottom on the sounder so even the flattest structure would have been clearly visible and, in any event, any reef shows as a darker and thicker trace - there was none other than the clearly visable pots (I was actually surprised just how clear they were)

We had actually sounded the whole area for over an hour before deciding where to drop anchor as I had lost many of my GPS marks when I sold my old boat and the perfect flat conditions allowed for really detailed sounding.

Oh yes and the fact that they were bounce diving each of the pots which were spaced at least 50-60 metres apart was a bit of a giveaway - no dive flag displayed either - watched them through binocs for over half an hour.  Sorry but guilty until proven innocent given the overwhelming evidence.

agree with cammos and pete d.

me and some mates used to dive a certain rockwall in metro before work some mornings, and were confronted by the same "recreational potters" (pro deckies with pot tippers on their 10 foot dinghys) every morning when they didnt get many or any crays. we would get out with our crays, and they would accuse us of pilferring their pots. nearly came to blows one morning.

I've dived that same spot that Cammos mentions, its magic. The funny thing is that, despite there being 3 por pots on the lump, and a million crays down the bottom, the pro pots didn't have a single cray in them!