Like the intro says - unusual catches - Others??
Submitted by Digger01 on Tue, 2010-11-16 20:46
Hi All
Went for a flick with a few Hardbodies this moring in the canning trying to entice a flathead or two, No Luck of that front but I did manage to catch a Bluey!!
Not the first time that I have got a crab on a line but it is the first time I got one on a Halco scorpion 35...!!
Went back to grow up a bit - might have been size but no measure so it lives to fight another day.
dagree
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Good move
putting him back to grow... My understanding is that it is illegal to catch and keep the blues (or any crab for that matter) by line.
Someone else may correct me if I am wrong.
Cheers,
David
Cheers,
David (AKA Grumps)
Location: Heathridge. Toys: 120 Series Prado ... 5.3 Stacer Seamaster/Merc 90HP.
carnarvonite
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Legal
Certainly legal to catch them on a fishing line.
dagree
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Not sure
but I think I might have been getting mixed up with crays?
Damn have caught a few good bluies in the past and let them go :-(
Cheers,
David (AKA Grumps)
Location: Heathridge. Toys: 120 Series Prado ... 5.3 Stacer Seamaster/Merc 90HP.
Digger01
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It is not legal to catch
It is not legal to catch them either by prawing net or fishing net as they are an accidental catch.
You know have been fishing for 35 years or more and rarely bothered to post on these blog but do take an interest in following what others are doing.
Let me say it is typical that as soon as someone posts something that is a little different, or a bloke posts like he is new to this world, their is always someone that is as quick as hell to tell them that what they have done is either illegal or wrong.
Not everyone outside of these forums are without knowledge.................
wazzbat
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I remember catching a whole
I remember catching a whole feed of crabs using fishing gear anchored up just outside the Dawesville Cut many years ago. Unfortunately we were so sick of crabs by then though because there were so many around at the time. They were thicker than the blowies!
I fish for the future - Cause I can't bloody catch anything!
Digger01
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Sorry, meant to say it is
Sorry, meant to say it is illegal to catch them by either prawning or fishing net...
BTW tell me how many crabs sold in the shops as Shark Bay Crabs are not caught in prawn nets......
Digger01
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I hear you wazzbat, them
I hear you wazzbat, them were the days, been a while since I encountered overload - think the blowies might win these days - especially in the swannie
Dreamtime
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yah mahn
well i got a 30cm sgt baker on 30cm jig last weekend hahaha just check out one of the nebraska threads! a wee bit funny in my books or just bloody hungry
aussie_breamer
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haha
yea mate, that was fu@*ing hilarious. Was smaller than your jig!!
bream slayer
Seaquest
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Sgt Bakers love jigs. They
Sgt Bakers love jigs. They are quite a common catch on metals.
carnarvonite
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Apologies
My earlier comment on catching them by line was incorrect, that is if it has a piercing hook attached. If you tie a bait on a line minus hooks and pull it in it is legal.
All of the crabs caught in Shark Bay are caught in pro pots and in prawn trawlers nets. The ones on sale over the last month are freshly caught but for the month before that they would have been frozen then thawed for you convenience as they say because the three boats had a month off and the trawlers had finished their season
The same goes for crabs caught in Exmouth Gulf by the trawlers there.
Their size limit is 129mm I think compared to 127mm for amatuers.
roberta
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I have also caught a
crab while fishing on the beach in Leeman, got it right in just on the water line and the crab let go, cool. Also went squidding and hit the bottom brought the jib back up and a lump of seaweed, just about to get the seaweed off and said to old fart there's something moving in the weed, it was a beautiful sea horse, gently got the weed off and popped it back in the water, caught it in the sound, just hope it got to the bottom ok.
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Brucesta
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I've caught plenty of fish
I've caught plenty of fish on squid jigs, seems to me to be the only difference between the expensive jigs and the cheapies up here, more fish caught on the expensive ones, hooked a monster Trevally pushing 15kg on 3kg that towed us around for 15 mins before letting go.
I was not aware of it being illegal to catch crabs on a hokked line, i have accounted for many a mud crab up here with my threadie rigs, just wind it in slowly,don't let the crab break the surface and then put the net under and scoop him up.
A few weeks back we got a 60cm cod in our crab pot too, caught plenty of anchors people have lost, a few occys and turtles by accident on the bottom, damm they pull hard!
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Bodie
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similar story, an unusual
similar story, an unusual one for me was catching a almost Jumbo cray off the beach on a tailor rig south of Mandurah.
Couldnt believe my eyes when it hit the beach. I was only about 14 at the time, and had never been into catching crays so it was a bit of a shock.
He or she went back into the drink as at the time we did know its illegal to catch them on line.
Faulkner Family
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probably my strangest catch
probably my strangest catch on a line would have to be another rod and reel , funny part about it was that there was a good size black bream on the line of the other rod so i scored a decent rod and reel and a backie to go with it. this happened down at the canning bridge . also have caught plenty of crays on a line up in Dongara when i was a kid, they were targeted, no hooks tho just a fish head tied on to the end.we scored about 20 over a 4 day period.
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fishnut
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strangest for me would
strangest for me would be:
model boat (it had sunk),
hat,
whole chicken carcass (assume someone chucked it after lunch, or maybe berley)
Jody
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Same
Crayfish out of 40m I thought was weird. Sounds like it is not that unusual from this thread.
TWiZTED
luke t
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Caught this little reptile a
Caught this little reptile a few years back while bass fishing (in the USA)
went apeshit once it realised it was hooked, rolling itself up in the braid (made it a bit easier to grab).
a few snaps later then it went straight back in as mum was probably watching closeby..
7739ian
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Sea snake
at Finucane Island years ago - he was pretty cranky so he was cut loose and dragged back to the water trailing a few metres of line.
Timmo
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hmmmm
pulled up a crab pot from claremont jetty and was damn heavy. once i got it to the surface with 2 ppl there was a coles shopping trolley stuck to it. Same night using a squid jig pulled in a pair of pantyhose WTF????
luke t
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haha i pulled that shopping
haha i pulled that shopping trolley up once before, i actually pushed (dragged) it up the start of the jetty thinking the council would take it away... but i reckon it ended up back in the drink .
or maybe its another one altogether.
also pulled a 10 speed racer from the same jetty in a crabnet !!!
Timmo
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hahaha
theres always random sh*t down there. Probs all the drunkards walkin home from a night out on the piss in claremont. Usually a few bikes too. Tell you what was damn hard pulling that trolley up. Had been there a while i think as was fairly rusty and sludgy.
deepwater
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fishing one of the creeks up
fishing one of the creeks up here i caught a calcutter 400 and a pistalgrip rod now that was a serprise in a crab net ,now that wasnt going back
jeff
Paul G
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I remember fishing around
I remember fishing around the local caravan park as a kid .Hooked onto the missis, still trying to work her out .I think I should off tagged and released but I couldn't shake her of the hook.
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PattyT
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I was fishing in one of the
I was fishing in one of the river mouths in Gladstone, QLD. In the first four baits we caught in order...
A baby bronze whaler
A baby hammer head
A sea snake
A sting ray
I thought that was a pretty weird combination.
Paul G
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Shit i'll remember not to go
Shit i'll remember not to go fishing with you guys
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deepwater
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you would save on bait on
you would save on bait on that trip Patty
jeff
fishnut
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explosive
this kid got an unusual catch - powergel
http://www.perthnow.com.au/lifestyle/boy-reels-in-explosive-at-bassendean/story-e6frg3sl-1225959146843
PattyT
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As you can imagine we pulled
As you can imagine we pulled the pick and went somewhere else after that!! haha. The sea snake was a hidious thing...