Mandurah Crabs

After such a bumper start to the year, what has happened?

Worst two weekends I have ever seen in Mandurah...ever!


wadetolley's picture

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thought

Mon, 2011-05-09 21:25

Thought the crabs were ment to die off around this time of the year?

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Yep they always go back into

Mon, 2011-05-09 21:32

Yep they always go back into the deeper water and spawn in the cooler months some years it is a bit later but normally about this time is the end!

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theyre all up here

Mon, 2011-05-09 23:45

Awesome run of crabs up here in Exmouth, 4 strings for our 40 boat limit on Friday and has been like that for 2-3 months.

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nice to see some crabs to the

Tue, 2011-05-10 15:11

nice to see some crabs to the south, do you have to head far into the gulf to get them Adam i'm guessing around Learmonth will turn up a feed. Must get a feed in Nickol bay myself i think next weekend

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More to the north

Mon, 2011-05-09 23:51

They do thin out this this time of year down south.

Bagged out at Jurian bay on the weekend and in the shallow water . Sorry no pic's.

 

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Mon, 2011-05-09 23:53

Was there 2 Weeks back caught the limit 4 times over 4 days
in an average of 6 runs, lots of big females
deepish channel in front of the farm produced
and the pros have their pots on the east side of the Harvey from the 4 poster up
that area produced aswell.

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This time of year,we normally

Tue, 2011-05-10 13:30

This time of year,we normally head down past the research platform in the Harvey because they get thin up north, but last weekend, we did real bad down there. We went back to the farm and managed to get a feed , but it was hard work. I know they get harder to find after easter, but just seemed harder than I can ever recall in 30 years of crabbing there all year round.