Perth abalone madness

Perth abalone madness

A bit of Sunday abalone madness in Perth. There were at least double this amount of people to the south, the poor old abs.


allrounder's picture

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I can see my house from here.

Mon, 2010-11-15 20:31

LaughingIt is getting harder to find a parking spot that is for sure.

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honestly i dont understand

Mon, 2010-11-15 20:33

honestly i dont understand why some go nuts over the abs when they are so small. put a total ban on for a couple of years and give the abs a chance to recouperate from the over fishing

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They are not all small

Mon, 2010-11-15 20:42

i can tell you that from the weekendLaughingI will take my camera next weekend and show you just how many are around.Or you can just ask AlfredLaughingIt is one of the most policed and controlled fisheries in the state.I have gone to the piece of reef i dive on two days after the pros have gone through and the numbers are still there.I think they only take a certain size as it was still loaded with small and big ones.You could see the spots they had been.

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Will agree, there are heaps

Mon, 2010-11-15 21:51

Will agree, there are heaps and last Sunday I scored my first ever 100mm abalone.

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Did you head across to where i said

Tue, 2010-11-16 05:12

i ended up taking only 15 had about half a dozen 100 plus and the rest were mainly around the 80 90 mm mark.If you are in a hurry you could bag and be out of the water in under 10 mins there.LaughingNext sunday i will tell you what to look for for the biggens.Wink

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Didn't go round to that side

Fri, 2010-11-19 08:37

Didn't go round to that side as I forgot my fins!  Just swam the south part of the reef.

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Ah i forgot that

Fri, 2010-11-19 16:28

told you i had a spare set in the car.Tongue outI get a few big ones right down that south end toward the wall.One year i swam down until it looked like there are no abs then swim about another 15 meters or so and there is a little pocket that dont get touched.I dont think the pros even take a crack at them (that i have seen anyhow.

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So tell me have you got your info from years on the water or hours on the internet?

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how has everyone been going

Mon, 2010-11-15 20:33

how has everyone been going with the abb's?

unfortunetly i cant get a licence

allrounder's picture

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We would go up in Cervanties

Mon, 2010-11-15 20:45

but the little spot we used to go to has been turned into a no take zone.We will have to look around again soon.

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So tell me have you got your info from years on the water or hours on the internet?

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omg

Mon, 2010-11-15 20:34

i REALLY want to find a way to make all those people eat reef, remote controlled sharks, massive stingrays to run into peoples feet... jokes aside, shits gettin ridiculous.

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why not

Mon, 2010-11-15 20:36

drive 2 1/2hrs and catch your limit of BIG Abs?

Would catch me dead in a crowd like that!

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Ants

Mon, 2010-11-15 20:39

They look like ants on a lolly paper.

 

 Whats needed is a five metre swell, that will sort the men from the boys

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Problem

Mon, 2010-11-15 21:23

Can't see the problem. They paid their licences and are fishing when they are supposed to be fishing. Good luck to them I reckon.

For the odd loser who breaks the rules, throw the book at them but the rest are just enjoying the experience.

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where was this? i was out

Mon, 2010-11-15 22:13

where was this?

i was out cruzing along the coast (cot-freo) on sunday and thought the cars were for the good weather? obviously not.

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whaat a joke ,

Tue, 2010-11-16 00:51

whaat a joke ,

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Once again...

Tue, 2010-11-16 04:50

...fisheries have regulated to suit themselves. A lot of these abs are getting ripped off the reef, then measured, then thrown back if undersized, then dying because they simply don't survive that type of treatment.

 

The pencil-pushers have worked out that something like 50 tonnes of abalone get taken by recs every "season" but they don't account for all the dead loss and fisheries have no doubt deemed it too hard to police how people are actually handling the ones that need to go back. Much easier to wait up in the carpark and simply check bag/size limits/time/licences. 

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yeah as the guys I was with

Tue, 2010-11-16 06:23

yeah as the guys I was with were getting out of the water there were piles of undersized of overbag abalone lying on the bottom. Pretty sad when people pick over their limit and don't even try to return the excess so they survive. It's not hard to guage an ab while it's still on the rocks and leave it alone if it's u/s.

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packed

Tue, 2010-11-16 18:26

not quiet as bad as that up here last sunday but was still people everywhere! and we had a 3.5m swell and decent sthrly with it. needed to be veryyyyyy careful thats for sure! one bloke got put on his arse not respecting the ocean enough! very lucky only had abit of skin off... hopefully the weather is abit kinder this sunday! Quick ab mish then into the crayzzz

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Reef Damage !

Thu, 2010-11-18 15:21

The biggest problem i have with this abalone gathering exercise is the damage that all those people do to the reef by walking all over it.

 

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