mmmmmm Muddies

[bugman]

Got a knock on the door late yesterday afternoon and it was Mick (Sandman) saying "have you got a camera?"

He's been crabbing down the mouth of the Brisbane River for a few days now and pulling some nice bucks but nothing as good as yesterday.

The biggest went about 19cm across the carapace. The next wasn't much smaller and the there was another just legal. Not bad for four pots.

Don't ask for the details as I don't know but the fresh must have flushed a few of the big old fellas out as they were dark brown and very very heavy.

Brett

[bugman]

mmmmm

[bugman]

mmmm

[Billo]

Yeh yeh ....thats what we want to see Brett ....top stuff

Time to dust off the big muddy pots and start heading up the creeks .
This fresh is sure to get em moving !

[bugman]

fiesty bugger

[Streaker]

Brett
I hope you were given one for your trouble.
Wayne

[Mick]

What trouble? The crabs all but walked over to Bugmans, let themselves in, put a pot of boiling water on the stove and all jumped in. All while bugman was sleeping in the hammock out the back yard. What a fisherman!

[Sandman]

Cheers Bret,

Wayne i offered one to Bret but he declined Anyways i have been crabbing for the last 2 weeks solid in a few areas namely the Brisbane river!!
Now these crabs are safe to eat before i get rumbled for eating toxic crabs.
Although when you start getting quality crabs luike these you do wonder what they eat!
Bret kindly off loaded his whoo heads and scaps last week , and my theory for these fellows big bait big crabs as the small stuff has produced small crabs.
My totall number in the pots last night was 20 crabs out of that lot in 4 pots was these 3 monsters , we caught 10 others last week but not of that quality. Its interesting to note up until the rain we did not get one Jenny in the pots now after the rain there are jennies galore !!! Anyone know the reason behind this ?

Sand crabs are being caught from the gateway all the way down if you are into them , the mouth is also holding these muddies and if you are game its best to leave them in all night but the thiefs are out !!! >

Thanks again Bret now need to get more bait this weekend bring on the whoo ( hopefully).
Mick

[cuzzamundi]

bewdiful mate - makes me drool looking at em!

cuzza

[MIKOS]

you can come over to my place anytime with a good catch like that and ill cook em up and even shout the beer for a good feed of muddies

Impressive catch

MIKOS

[bugman]

Mikos,

I gave him a beer just for his efforts

[MIKOS]

yeah looked like a hard days work.
well done bugman

MIKOS

[SgBFish]

Great effort. Time to a buy some more pots to replace the ones knocked off last season.
But thats a whole new thread...

[Jay_S]

Great work Brett, [smiley=thumbsup.gif]I bet they would of tasted nice [smiley=chef.gif]

Jay [smiley=bandana.gif]

[Toppy]

Hi guys, nice to see a few muddies of that calibure still comming out of our local waterways.
I bet they tasted great!
Cheers
Toppy