PB cray
Submitted by Notorious on Thu, 2013-10-31 16:04
From five fathom bank this morning, 2.7kgs....Freediving in 10m, pulled this one away from his girls in a cave
my little tinnie loses its jumbo virginity too! :)
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JoeH
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Wall mount?
Awesome roach. Kept all his legs too, would look great on the wall.....
Cheers,
Joe
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dj dvd
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Nice work - killing with the
Nice work - killing with the crays. Tinny lyfe is the good lyfe
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oz74
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very nice
First pic I was thinking " yeah, an ok Cray" - doesnt do it justice.
second pic- fck me- that thing's a monster! And on a single breath- admirable.
cheers
brett
Stevo81
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Beast mate! We'll done.
Beast mate! We'll done. Drove home in ya wetti aswell
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diver
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Well Done
I take my hat off to you,to free dive 10 pluse get a cray that size is an awsume feat.Diver
milsey
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Rippa roach, gotta love the
Rippa roach, gotta love the swim up with one of them in your hand.
kirky79
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That is awesome!! 10 m I
That is awesome!! 10 m I reckon I could just make it down and back up but that is it. Well done.
Lamby
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Bomber roach!
Bomber roach!
Vinesh87
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Solid cray!!
Solid cray!!
Notorious
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Thanks blokes....I got lucky
Thanks blokes....I got lucky today.....this big boy was in a cave with a bunch of females (lucky guy, till I came along), luckily I had a torch and managed to see him in the pitch black and wrestle him out. Struggled to fit him in my catch bag!
10m is not too bad, one day I was pulling them out of 16m, after 8 dives and 6 crays at that depth I was buggered
Now hoping to upgrade my current PB for a 3kg+ model......I love early cray season! :)
The old dingy performed well today, dive buddy sitting up front needed to see a chiro when we got home though haha
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Versus
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can you tell males and
can you tell males and females apart from looking at them? Or was he just huge compared to the others? We had a dive at rotto yesterday and they were either berried, tar spot or undersize!
Vinesh87
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Yes. Have a look for prong
Yes. Have a look for prong shapes under the flaps. if they have hair you can't take them. look up western rock lobster brochure on a fisheries website has all the photos!
Versus
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I meant just looking at it
I meant just looking at it head on, as the way he wrote it kinda implied he picked the male from a bunch of females (without grabbing each one and looking under their flaps)
Vinesh87
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haha i get ya.. Not that i
haha i get ya.. Not that i know of !!
kmo
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Legs
With the jumbos the males have much bigger legs so you can have a good guess that way. When they're smaller your guess is as good as mine, but sometimes you can see the under carriage if you can get your torch on the right angle, especially over sand when the light reflects up.
Notorious
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KMO is on the money.....For
KMO is on the money.....For me, I ascertain cray size based on the legs. If you see big legs hangining in front, go for that one.
The one in this tread, I saw him side on first and saw his big fat tail first.
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Notorious
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carapace was 150mm :) Have
carapace was 150mm :)
Have kept the carapace, it takes pride in my collection of fish jaws
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psion
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I can only say
Holy crap, luck he didn't mistake you for a female cray.
well done
Super peg
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That's a horse! Could enter
That's a horse! Could enter that in Melbourne cup tomorro!
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Habanero
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Sweet
Nice Cray , it has been an awsome start to the early season down here also , mate and I bagged out in 1.5hrs on a shore dive on sunday 7 of em Jumbo males . what fish jaws do you have??
Notorious
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So far I have a harlequin
So far I have a harlequin fish......and a small bronzey that I shot.
I hope to add mack, Wahoo, Trout, blue grouper and baldchin to my collection this season. They are a real conversation piece when people come over
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Habanero
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Harlequin would be good
Yeah they look great , I have a reasonable collection , my fav are "Mu" or Big Eye Sea Bream , they have teeth like human molars in the back half of the jaw ( hard fish to spear though , as allways seem to hang just outside of range! ) have a 15kg trout jaw aswell , but never have been able to keep Wahoo jaws together ( only fish which can moove its upper jaw as well as lower) , let me know if you have any success with Wahoo jaws , would be interested to know how..
Notorious
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15kg trout!?! wow, epicYep,
15kg trout!?! wow, epic
Yep, hear about Mu being hard, didnt know about their rear molars, interesting!
Gotta get lucky and shoot another Wahoo first, I'll let you know :)
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