what weights do you have now ??when you say 10 kg ??

if that is 2 x flat railway fish plates that should be enough for 3/4 size jarrah pots,

you could add more , but its not really needed to catch crays , more to deter pirates/theft , just ensure your rope length has enough to allow slack in the depth your fishing , but not too much to trail 20 metres across the surface and be a navigation and prop entanglement issue for others imo

hezzy

Hey Hezzy,

Ooops, missed that, already have 10kgs of weight in the pots at the moment.

And was also thinking 5 mtrs of slack ?

There is more chance of your pots moving in bigger seas if your ropes are too long rather than straight up and down

Cheers carnarvonite

Give yourself a fair bit of rope.  You can always dog bone (coil and half hitch) the excess.  In my opinion and after years of skippering my own cray boat, when too short, and you get a swell (seas to lesser extent), the pots will walk.  This is because when a swell comes, the rope goes tight, pulls on the floats, which in turn lifts the front of the pot and the bottom surge walks it.  This means next time you go out, your pot will have moved and it will be empty because no cray will go into a moving pot.

Just think, you don't anchor in a big swell with a short rode.  You let rope out so when a swell passes, it gently goes taught and doesn't yank your boat forward.

For reference, the other week I had pots in 12 fathoms (24 metres) with 18 fathoms (36metres) rope, plus 2 fathoms between my 2 floats, and the first float was bobbing with no slack rope.  But yeah, you don't want too much rope on the surface, otherwise some idiot will run over them.

WHAT DEPTH YOU IN THIS WEEK CLAYD HAHA !

CHEERS FOR THE ADVICE, I MAY HAVE BEEN UNDERDONE WITH THE LENGTHS I WAS THINKING

SCOTTY

Pulled out 1 week ago.  2 weeks is enough for me.  

Clayd is absoluetly spot on, we recommend 10m extra rope length over the depth your potting in. As for pot weight we recomend 15kg (for 3/4 size) and if you have a winch max 20kg.