My new boat has finally arrived
Hians hunter patriot crab hunter 1.4
Keen to get the patriot in the water the calls went out to goat and dalmatinac’s to come for run.
The plans were to hit the lower part of the river and get some mussels then when the sun had set for the night pack up the patriot and head up river for some crabs. I swung past rutars around 6.30 and we headed to dalmatinac and then to the river .We launched the patriot only to be greeted with the local water police who hovered around for a while, I think they were admiring my new boat or they were wandering how the 3 of us were going to get in it, but really I think they were waiting to see if we were going to put a dive flag up. After they moved on we hit the mussel zone plenty of big fat mussels to be harvested 10 minutes work and we had our bag limit.
We moved up river to farm the crab paddocks where we loaded the batteries and lights into the patriot and headed out into a stiff easterly but the patriot handled the sharp chop well. It didn’t take long to gather some nice blues that had dalmatinac screaming like a sissy at one stage.
Colin Hay
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Good one Bill
Looks pretty fast.
brenz
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da big boat
absolutly love it . when is the windscreeen bimini etc goin on. as col said would be interested in the top speed of that beast .
good stuff brenz
jimbo1
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Its a
Its a bath tub!!!! just need some rubber duckies...........
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Ryan Thipthorp
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hehehe
3 men, one small boat.......would of been funny to see their reaction......gold!
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Leethal
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Date Joined: 28/10/07
Swan Mussels
Nice rig mate. Must be an awesome sight up on the plane at full noise!
Just wondering about the mussels... Have ya started to grow any extra limbs (or god forbid, an extra head!) from eating mussels from the swan.
Last time I ate mussels out of the swan was over 25 years ago.
Bill
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yer it's only 1.4 meters
yer it's only 1.4 meters long and 500mm wide no hope but great crab boat for carrying all the batteries needed to power my lights and put the crabs in.
Bill
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nah there top notch these
nah there top notch these are well below low tide line so never there exposed and in a area well away from boat clubs so no antifowl
GOATRUTAR
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Leethan the mussles are
Leethan the mussles are excellent!
You have probably stopped getting them from the river and now from a shop who gets them from Cockburn sound!
The swan or Cockburn.............??????
I;m not sure which would be worse!
Still taste good.
IF IT SMELLS LIKE FISH IT MUST BE GOOD FOR YOU!
Leethal
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Nah Goat, I don't buy them
Nah Goat, I don't buy them from a shop either, they just never taste quite right.
Last lot I've eaten, I collected off the rocks down at Denmark. Best feed of mussels I'd had for ages
GOATRUTAR
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Yeah I don't suppose you can
Yeah I don't suppose you can compare the brown water of the river with Denmarks crystal water.
IF IT SMELLS LIKE FISH IT MUST BE GOOD FOR YOU!
sherbert
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Put goats 2 motors on the back
And you got a good rig
steve
Born to fish forced to work
ROCKPOM
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Rubba dub dub 3 men in a
Rubba dub dub 3 men in a tub!!!