anyone been catching sandcrabs

[rosco1974]

planning on going out crabbing on the weekend and just wondering if there has been any good numbers of crabs caught lately....any hints will be greatfully appreciated...thanx in advance...cheers rosco

[Benny01]

brought home 4 on the weekend caught on a rod n reel

[-spiro-]

i heard there getting a few in the Bribie passage at the moment..

[SgBFish]

Saw a bloke at the Clontarf boat ramp last weekend who had 12 but he left his pots in overnight, which is a bit risky.
Scott

[rosco1974]

going to give green island a go..will post how i went

[trueblue]

Saw a bloke at the Clontarf boat ramp last weekend who had 12 but he left his pots in overnight, which is a bit risky.
Scott

leave them out overnight when it is rough...

and split your pots up out of sight of each other and mark them on the gps...

there are bugger all people out to pinch your pots when it is rough, and the crabs don't seem to care about the surface conditions

And if your pots are not lined up in a neat 'menu' string, they don't get raided too much, and if they do, its only going to be one. Give the thieves a nice bright string of pots, and they'll go through them all.

cheers

[bondy99]

Mate,
I'd like to set a few razor blades into the lines for these pricks to cut themselves then one will know who the crab pot theives are, after all what are they going to do report their cut hands to the cops. That's a low act to knock off someone elses crabs in pots that don't belong to them. DPIBF can crack down on these thefts if they want to by placing microchips on the crabs with the pot owners permission. then triangulate the signals using radar and RDF.

They can do this with commerical crabbers on muddies and has been tested successfully, they only need to do a couple of stints and the message will soon spread.

These are my thouthts on the problem
Peter

[trueblue]

That's a low act to knock off someone elses crabs in pots that don't belong to them. DPIBF can crack down on these thefts if they want to by placing microchips on the crabs with the pot owners permission. then triangulate the signals using radar and RDF.

They can do this with commerical crabbers on muddies and has been tested successfully, they only need to do a couple of stints and the message will soon spread.

These are my thouthts on the problem
Peter

agreed, it is a low act by the thieves... but thieves will be thieves, and until the law sorts it out (probably never), all we can do is to actively evade the thieves through some clever crabbing techniques to minimise the risk of being robbed, and minimise how much they are likely to steal from us.

cheers

Mick

[bondy99]

agreed, it is a low act by the thieves... but thieves will be thieves, and until the law sorts it out (probably never), all we can do is to actively evade the thieves through some clever crabbing techniques to minimise the risk of being robbed, and minimise how much they are likely to steal from us.

cheers

Mick

G'day Mick,

You're spot on it seems the days of honesty has gone out of the window for some of these jokers. The old saying is also true I think, what goes around comes around...Law of Karma I think