Cray Pots
Submitted by jayce on Sun, 2011-12-11 12:27
Gday guys
We are heading to cervantees over the christmas new years period and are wanting to set a few pots for some crays.
Just chasing a bit of advice on what would be good depths at that time of year to get a few.
We will only have a 12ft tinnie so wont be going out to far. And i am not asking for peoples spots here just a rough depth that we should start looking.We are only new to catching crays.
tonyb
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Date Joined: 10/11/08
You will get them in 5 meters
You will get them in 5 meters in the weed, just have a look around for other pots. I think you will find at that time of year they won't be hard to spot.
Don't forget "Fishers who use lobster pots between Wedge Island and Freshwater Point, south of Dongara are required to fit sea lion exclusion devices to their pots to prevent sea lion pups getting caught in pots". Fisheries are hot on it up there.
roberta
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Date Joined: 08/07/08
So true tonyb
our 4 pots in Leeman have the bolt (thats what I call it, as it looks like a big bolt) . We got the bolts from Fisheries in Jurien Bay and they also gave us a small looking float that once you have the bolt in, you use the small float to make sure the bolt is in the correct position. It does make it a bit harder to get the crays out, especially if you want all their legs on as well.
We left Leeman 5.12.11 and it looked like the pros were going deeper, as a lot of them had longer ropes with extra floats on for out deep
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quindieselbrad
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Date Joined: 01/09/10
hmm
try 5-7m in close any dark lumpy bottom with a sand edge. if not try 10-15m same bottom, directly out from cervantes beach. we usually get a couple for a feed when we stay the weekend fishn...
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