Swan river crabbers.
Spent yesterday arvo downing a few bevys and catching a few crabs in the swan, what better to do pre new years?
One thing i noticed was all the other crabbers in the area were soaking their pots for 30 mins or so at a time where as our approach is to set, go back to the first pot and pull straight away and repeat. IMO soaking pots allows the crabs to feed and leave pulling them repeatedly gives you a better chance of getting a crab thats just arrived and if its not in the pot yet after your pots in the water again any crab that was close by will find it in the time it take for you to return for another pull. As for depth to set it always varies but recently we found staggering your pots in a few different depths to locate where the crabs are was a better option than sticking to the standard one long line of pots.
Happy crabbing swan fishers!
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Andy_b
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Date Joined: 19/10/11
nice feed their well done,
nice feed their well done, swan river crabs ohhh beautifull with a few cold ones :)
fishmad69
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Date Joined: 19/10/10
I love crabs and can never
I love crabs and can never find any in the Swan River any slight hint of where i should looking.
I know its a long shot
Andy_b
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pm sent fishmad69
pm sent fishmad69
Righteo
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go deep, thats the he best i
go deep, thats the best i can do ;)
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DG
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Date Joined: 10/01/09
Not a bad bag full!
Hey, Not a bad effort there!
As you say it's a good idea to try your nets in different spots and depths to increase your chances of finding them, instead of having all your eggs in one basket - or nets in one spot. Also like you, I like to check pots straight away as it gives you an idea if they're around.
I went out this morning and had no luck at all and only pulled 1 undersize crab around Mosmans. Are these from upstream?
Happy Crabbing!
Righteo
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put in the time DG your so
put in the time DG your so close to cracking the code, maybe try afternoon ;) lots of undersize at the moment and even the size ones are still a bit light but extremely tasty, couple more months and they will be full with pink bellys :P
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pharlap
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Rope length
Great catch righteo, mate can you tell me how much rope length ya need, ive only got standard shop length on my nets.
Cheers
Righteo
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run 3m longer than the depth
run 3m longer than the depth you plan on crabbing, its not %100 necessary but if you happen to get some solid tide movement it will pull your floats under, scored many a pot sitting a meter or 2 under the surface and wasnt recovered, last year i spotted one about 2 meters down dived in with my eye on the float and it smacked me square in between the eyes, free pot though but watch out if ya pull someones lost pot..... the rotten old bait is the worst thing ive ever smelt.... and ive smelt a few nasty things in my time. noticed an old bloke the otherday who had floats that where rectangular shape but forked at each end so he just wrapped the float with line, once he dropped in and it set its own depth. was a good idea... so basicly what eva depth he fished would always have minimun amount of rope out. me personally i like to have a bit extra out it lets you come up past the pot and and give u time to start a rapid retrieve and set the crab in the pot before ya steady your pull, you can actually feel crabs fall out at times it sucks.
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soupster51
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Quality
Not bad at all....... Nice work that man.
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Ben Derecki
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Nice feed! We'be just got
Nice feed!
We'be just got back from a session and got zip, not even undersize.... we were in shallow water though, 5-6m. Picked up some nice tailor while we were waiting though.
r.gates
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Crabs in the Harvey Estuary
Sorry if I've hijacked your thread, Righteo, but Mrs gates had been nagging me to take her scooping for some crabs so on Thursday arvo (after our cray dive) we went for a walk along the shoreline just across the Old Coast Rd from our place and in an hour we'd scooped 8 sized ones....threw back a few undersize ones as well as the females...we only take the males.
She was happy and that gets me back in the good books
Crabs and crayfish for tea...went down a treat!
regards
rusty...
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dkonig82
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looking like i gotta get out
looking like i gotta get out for a crab soon!
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Subaquatic
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Agree 100% mate. We do the
Agree 100% mate. We do the same. Drop, go back and pull em....any delay is just blowie feeding.