Plenty of Sandies and a lost Muddie

[Tangles]

Dropped the pots out Saturday out in the Bay, around the 10 metres, returned Sunday morning and picked up 34 sandies and a very lost Muddie. Crabbed two areas, the 4 pots in one area had a lot of undersized and females but we got a few, the other 4 pots up the road had really good crab with 11 good sized keepers in the final pot. They are out there fellas and the muddie must of been swimming to New Zealand. Kept a few and the muddie for ourselves with the rellies like feeding seagulls:D

The 2 entry pots out-crabbed the usual 4 entry ones on the overnight soak.

Cheers
Mike

[Mike Delisser]

Well done Mike, good to see somebody is getting into the sandies, and good to see the share farmers weren't out and about also.

Cheers
MD

[tropicrows]

Top effort Mike, I think you could teach that netmaker bloke a thing or two.

[craigie]

Mike,

Sand Crab Fever !! great catch mate, they are out there in numbers !!
Have you tried the central bay out from the river ?

I'm going to hit it this weekend, time for a lovely crab sandwich and beer !!!!

Regards
Craigie.

[netmaker]

Top effort Mike, I think you could teach that netmaker bloke a thing or two.

geezuz, fair go bruce. the man is using twice as many pots... dropped mine out this morn so will see what tomorrow brings. good effort mike.

[Tangles]

Mike,

Sand Crab Fever !! great catch mate, they are out there in numbers !!
Have you tried the central bay out from the river ?

I'm going to hit it this weekend, time for a lovely crab sandwich and beer !!!!

Regards
Craigie.

Craigie,

not that spot Craigie, mate i lost your number can you pm it? ( computer malfunction called deleting wrong folder)

[Moonlighter]

We dropped our 8 pots in Sat after lunch. Lifted them for a quick look at 5 pm for 10 nice keeper sandy's. Left them in overnight, but a bit disappointed when we lifted them early Sun am for just another 10.

We were crabbing in about 5m near Peel. Might have to go a bit deeper based on your results, Mike!

Anyway got a decent feed, there do seem to be quite a few about. They were all chocka block full too.

We had same thing happen as you too Mike - rellos swooped like seagulls on a hot chip when word got out!

Cheers

ML

[rosco1974]

well done mate nother cracker feed,i dropped mine in for muddies on sat morning then went for a troll for macks,could only manage 3 macks then pulled the pots for 4 muddies on the way home,went out yesterday morning early and got 11 good keeper muddies with a combined weight of just on 17 kilo so good muddies.

[Seahorse]

17 kg. how good was that.
Hey Rosco where u get the Macs.


Cheers
Greg

[Axl]

Well done Tangles nice feed there mate thanks for the report, I fly home tomorrow and as the boat hasnt been in the water since before xmas im keen as to get some salt water on it (and me). I am heading to Somerset to try for some yabbies first but once I get back it looks like ill have to dust off the crab pots.

[Tangles]

Rosco, nice going on the macs and muddies,

ML we had 4 pots near Peel which didnt do as well either....and the rellos cleaned us out, i must admit i did wonder if one rello who can really demolish the sandies was serious when he asked if they where cooked or not? answer we dont usually catch cooked crab from the Bay but next time ill try!

[Scalem]

Just to be spiteful I would give him a raw spanner crab that are red aren't they? See how he tucks into that one Mike. Good effort there dude, does Bec enjoy sandies?

Scalem

[Tangles]

Bec loves them Brian, prefers them to the muddies