My 5 weeks off at Xmas

I have just had 5 weeks off over christmas with the plan of doing everything fishing related, so here is a brief brag about my 5 weeks off!!

 

1st week was all about the crays and getting some for christmas dinner. This has been the first season that I have gone for crays so I was a little worried that I wouldnt get any. As soon as I got home from work the cray pots went in on the monday putting them on lumps I normally fish in the 20 metre mark. First pull was 2 days later on the wednesday... first 3 pots got 6 crays and all were tar spot females... Pretty depressed we headed over to the last pot which I had set near a lump that was 5 metres tall and only about 5 metres wide.... BAM!! 17 sized crays in 1 pot, had to return 1 so we didnt go over the limit. I then pulled all the other pots in and set around this lump. Every day after that we were in undated with crays and over a week and a half we got a total of 65 crays. I decided to pull the cray pots in after I had 2 stolen and the other 2 pulled and moved!!

 

The second week saw the start of the demersal season and with the weather looking brilliant on the monday I re-set my remaining 2 cray pots on the saturday so that we could pull them on the monday on the way out to get some fish. Monday morning came and we headed out to the cray pots..... And guess what.... 1 had been stolen but luckily there was still 1 on the spot. Pulled the pot and almost busted a pooper valve doing it which resulted in 18 sized crays!! Extremely stoked we re-set the pot and headed out wide in search of a dhu..... Wasnt an extremely productive day on the water but ended up getting 1 dhu, 3 baldies, 1 small sambo, 2 stonker king george, 1 black ass, a wobby gong and a strip tuna (cray bait) Sank alot of corona so we were pretty happy by the end of the day!!

 

So the first 2 weeks were going great, however the wind wasnt too kind over the christmas and new year period so I didnt get out on the boat. I did however get to go for a cruise up to Kalbarri to spend New Years there. The party at the pub was awesome and they played great older music that you could sing and dance too...... The only bad thing was that on the drive up there the w@nker boys in blue decided to give me a yellow sticker for a LED light bar and fishing rod holders on my bull bar.... I offered to take them off on the side of the road but they were complete dicks about it!! took them off and got the car over the pits in early January.... Complete waste of time and money.... Would have thought there were other crimes they can spend their time with!!

Anyhoo early January saw the opening of marron season, so with the yellow sticker now removed I headed to Bunbury to pick up my mates and head to our reliable marron spot. Openning day saw 32 marron caught (4 of us bagged out) all were over trophy size even tho we werent fishing in trophy waters! the next night we headed to Harvey Dam to join every other man and his dog out there... In 2 hours we caught 4 so we decided to go back to our spot. We were there for just over an hour and a half and we had another 12 to bag out (Only 2 of us this time)

 

So with the end of my holidays in sight and the depression starting to kick in before I went back to work I was thinking of 1 more fishing activity that I could do...... Sitting around sinking gods gift to man (Red cans!!! Export) my mate says "Prawns would be good right now" so off we trotted to a spot I know where we could get a feed of prawns all year round.... Was a fair bit of hard work but we were able to get a bucket pull.... Being wayyyy to drunk we decided to cook the prawns the following day!!

 

So all in all the holiday was pretty good with alot of fishing getting done and alot of seafood getting eaten.... See below

 

Cheers fellas!!

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Best catch

Sun, 2014-01-19 05:16

report iv'e seen for a while, all bases covered for sure. cheers Pete.

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Terrific look to the kitchen bench.

Sun, 2014-01-19 05:16

 Nice post. Your "lost" pot problem sounds common enough.

The Feds pulled up an old bloke and his wife near the over lander servo as a part of some heavy blitz on road safety 4 years ago. The couple received a fine for having rod holders on the bull bar - naughty people - the police lost big time that day, no one was very pleased with the story, and the old bloke was fuming upset telling anyone who cared to know. Police got the advertisement they wanted, but lost a few supporters for it. Lucky for the pedestrians of the North West my 3.5 tonn fourby and boat didn't have a rod holder on the front bullbar. I can't imagine how much more pain and suffering I would have caused running down a paderistrian in the rig with a rod holder on the bull bar.

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Far out!!!

Sun, 2014-01-19 06:24

that is a thumping big marron..

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FEEEISH ONNN!!!

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 What a report!! Nice one

Sun, 2014-01-19 09:41

 What a report!! Nice one mate, some great eating there. Thanks for sharing. 

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great work! with the what

Sun, 2014-01-19 10:47

great work!

with the what looks like mournay cray done in oven I am sure tasted awesome but for something different , try it in microwave (time depends on size) or even the smoker.

I find they don't dry out as much.

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Style

Sun, 2014-01-19 13:49

 Like your style, all the best stuff right there.

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Are you living in the land of the gods or what

Sun, 2014-01-19 16:18

Very good report I'm very envious of the catches you have had, keep it up and may your gods keep smiling down upon you

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Cheers fellas

Sun, 2014-01-19 16:57

 Cheers fellas!! Was an awesome few weeks off! Hope the weather plays nice so I can get back out next week!!

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mate - dominating it on all

Sun, 2014-01-19 18:45

mate - dominating it on all bases! Love your work

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