Swan River Crabs

I headed out with the old man tonight on the swan for a crab despite hearing a few reports they had died off in the last few days we went out regardless.  Left Pt Walter ramp around 5:45 pm and after some shit chop we rounded the marks and were off around the spit and into the lee of Blackwall reach.  We only had 8 nets and on unwinding one the old man saw the mesh bottom depart to the bottom so we were down to 7 nets.  Two tuna heads in each pot saw us off to a slow start with no crabs in the first two pulls.  

On the third run we got our first size crab with a few undersize and berried females thrown back, then another two size crabs.  It still wasnt hot and there were a few boats working Blackies so we picked up two of our nets and repositioned them off chidley pt which was also quite calm.

From then on it just took off with at least 3-4 crabs per pull of the 7 nets, often with two size crabs per pot. Headed in by 10pm with 19 nice swan river crabs.  Another top night on the swan with dad.

Bryan 

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well done mate looks good !

Sun, 2015-02-01 01:18

well done mate looks good !

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There are some very good size ones

Sun, 2015-02-01 22:05

Looks like there are some very good size crabs amongst that lot. Well done

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 Nice haul Bryan

Mon, 2015-02-02 06:07

 Nice haul Bryan

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Blues

Mon, 2015-02-02 07:13

Blues have just started to run up here, can't wait to get out there and get some.

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Nice size blueys

Mon, 2015-02-02 09:04

 I was out there yesterday arvo and got 18 nice size blueys also but I was crabbing at Claremont.

it was a windy arvo but got a great feed.

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