Jurian - Cray / Crabs?
Submitted by tonyb on Sun, 2010-11-14 15:50
Guys
Heading to Jurian mid week. Wondering where you would put your crays pots at this time of the year (depth etc)? Also, I heard the Marina up there holds crabs, would it be worth talking up crabs nets?
Thanks for any advise you can offer.
Auslobster
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Good luck...
...with the cray pots. Most years you need at least a week from the start (15th) before their shells harden up and they're brave enough to start wandering around looking for a feed (going into pots). Your best bet, if you HAVE to run pots, is to just find a sand hole in the middle of some reef and go for some reds. Closer to the ledges/caves the better. Try the back side of Favourite Island (aka Crocodile Island), the first one you see coming out of the marina.
As for the crabs...we were there a month ago and the only place we could find any was in the marina, and they were well undersize. A local mate of mine reckons he got a few but had to work pretty hard for them.