Moving cray floats of Cape Naturalist

Today sitting off the cape i noticed that there was a cray float that was atually moving , and no I was not drinking !!! I drove over to it and Yes it was actually moving at about 3 knots . i followed it for about half an hr curious what this actually was .  i thought it may have been a whale caught in a cray float but it did not surface for air in the time i followed it.

When we had cruised off i see another float in the distance and floated over to it and yes it was moving as well.

There was a pro boat about 2 kms off the cape not moving.

Can any body help with what this was ????

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A float that had been cut

Thu, 2012-01-26 19:54

A float that had been cut off.

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Strong northerly current

Thu, 2012-01-26 19:59

Strong northerly current yesterday, actually had us at one stage drifting into the southerly

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the floats were being dragged by something

Thu, 2012-01-26 21:19

 

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Bit jaws sounding lol

Thu, 2012-01-26 21:26

I'd say current

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chopped off

Thu, 2012-01-26 21:35

i found two sets that were cut off last week! 160 metres of rope thought i had scored untill the fisheries boarded me and took the rope and floats!

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 Could have been the old tie

Thu, 2012-01-26 23:06

 Could have been the old tie a shark rig onto a spare float line and when a shark pops up ditch it ova keep working and find ya floats later once the sharks burnt itself out. Takes a big shark to dunk all floats but 

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nth tide

Thu, 2012-01-26 23:09

with these weather conditions u always get a screaming north tide with them!