Fish of the dive - South Australia

Fish of the dive - South Australia

Went 2.9KG


kane's picture

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nice cray mate

Mon, 2009-10-19 18:16

making me hungry! bring on cray season in WA!

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Nice size do you find them

Mon, 2009-10-19 19:59

Nice size do you find them tough when they are that big.

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very nice, but wondered the

Mon, 2009-10-19 20:07

very nice, but wondered the same as Paul, did you use a snare or just pick him up

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Snare

Tue, 2009-10-20 10:28

Snare him by the horn to hold him from retreating, then wrestle him out with the other hand. He brought out an equally sized rock in his feet which I couldnt pry out, so rock an all went in the bag!

Cooked in sea water and eaten that day - he was good, the smaller ones we cook and freeze after wrapping in newspaper - had one last night, went down well.

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Another good cray

Tue, 2009-10-20 12:53

He must have been dead for you to handle him like that!

Stingray's picture

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Dead

Tue, 2009-10-20 14:46

Only opportunity for a cuddle once they're drowned ey! it looked like a five kilo cray under the water, man the old adrenalin was pumping! All the bigger ones are males so far. Only seen one female so far with eggs - they're real dopey the ones with eggs, put em back in the same hole and they don't really panic, just sit up and carry on with being a cray! 

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I'm loving these southern

Thu, 2009-10-22 06:36

I'm loving these southern red pics, they certainly make the westerns look a little small. They do make up for it in numbers though. He would've been a sight underwater, I potted a 3.5-4kg off KI a few years ago and he was huge out of the water, would've been intimidating under.