Scott nthQld
08-09-2008, 09:07 AM
Well, I took the old man out crabbing and fishing yesterday arvo, mainly focusing on crabbing, we needed a bit more water to get to our crabbin spots. We had 4 pots between us and baited with mackeral frames and minced pillies. We set the pots in a little side creek off the Bohle river, in a nice deep channel net to the mangrove lined mud bank, perfect territory.
Once the pots were set, I come up onto a sand bar, and starting pumping a few yabbies, and made our way up to a little gravelly bump to fish for some grunter and whiting. Fishing was a bit slow with only a handful of tiddlers landed, would've made great live baits though.
After about 4 hours changing spot and catching nothing but babies, we set off to collect the pots.
we pulled the first pot to reveal a crushed mass of mesh and metal.....well looks like old salty wanted the bait and perhaps crabs more than us, so we untagled the mess to get it to lay flat and found 3 or 4 big crab legs, well, at least we know they are there, lets just hope the croc didn't beat us to them.
Coming up on the second pot, I think we found the culprit, sitting up on the bank, an old mate I haven't seen in a while, was a 16 footer, I can tell it was the same one cos he's missing a couple of scoots down near the tip of his tail. We'll a bit bigger than I last saw hime, but still very fat, so I'm guessing there's a few roos and wild pigs less because of him.
Dad kept a keen eye on him while I pulled the second pot to reveal 3 big muddies inside, 2 bucks and one massive jenny. Put the bucks in the ice slurry, (faster, safer and easier then tieing them up, the ice puts them to 'sleep' almost instantly) and let the jenny go. 3rd Pot we pulled up another 3 bucks, all just over legal, and tonnes of tiny ones and a couple of legal sand crabs, which were kept (babies thrown back).
The 4th pot was feeling very heavy, and when it surfaced there were 2 decent cod of 50cm inside, both with a small muddy wedged sideways in their massive gob, allong for the ride was another 4 tasty bucks.
It was the best crabbin I have seen in a long time, 4 pots, 9 muddies and 2 sandies + a couple of cod, and all it cost me was a pot and about 5L of fuel.
Was a great way to spend father's day arvo with the old man, the only downside was, that though the crabs felt full, all but 3 were half empty, and those cod went down a treat last night. So its sand crab sandwiches fo lunch today and crab with mayo on crackers for smoko....gotta love NQ
Once the pots were set, I come up onto a sand bar, and starting pumping a few yabbies, and made our way up to a little gravelly bump to fish for some grunter and whiting. Fishing was a bit slow with only a handful of tiddlers landed, would've made great live baits though.
After about 4 hours changing spot and catching nothing but babies, we set off to collect the pots.
we pulled the first pot to reveal a crushed mass of mesh and metal.....well looks like old salty wanted the bait and perhaps crabs more than us, so we untagled the mess to get it to lay flat and found 3 or 4 big crab legs, well, at least we know they are there, lets just hope the croc didn't beat us to them.
Coming up on the second pot, I think we found the culprit, sitting up on the bank, an old mate I haven't seen in a while, was a 16 footer, I can tell it was the same one cos he's missing a couple of scoots down near the tip of his tail. We'll a bit bigger than I last saw hime, but still very fat, so I'm guessing there's a few roos and wild pigs less because of him.
Dad kept a keen eye on him while I pulled the second pot to reveal 3 big muddies inside, 2 bucks and one massive jenny. Put the bucks in the ice slurry, (faster, safer and easier then tieing them up, the ice puts them to 'sleep' almost instantly) and let the jenny go. 3rd Pot we pulled up another 3 bucks, all just over legal, and tonnes of tiny ones and a couple of legal sand crabs, which were kept (babies thrown back).
The 4th pot was feeling very heavy, and when it surfaced there were 2 decent cod of 50cm inside, both with a small muddy wedged sideways in their massive gob, allong for the ride was another 4 tasty bucks.
It was the best crabbin I have seen in a long time, 4 pots, 9 muddies and 2 sandies + a couple of cod, and all it cost me was a pot and about 5L of fuel.
Was a great way to spend father's day arvo with the old man, the only downside was, that though the crabs felt full, all but 3 were half empty, and those cod went down a treat last night. So its sand crab sandwiches fo lunch today and crab with mayo on crackers for smoko....gotta love NQ