mate i love your eagerness to get out there and get a few crays. have you thought of free diving for them. Youll be surprised what you might find under a shallow ledge or lump. a half decent mask and flippers and a good set of gloves and your away. if youve done a bit of free diving before muck around with a weight belt it will help you alot. but dont just go chucking weights on you and diving down. start with a little until you know your strengths with swimming with the extra weights. and also make sure you can dump the weights if your in trouble.
...and have a think about things. You're obviously a young, enthusiastic fella who really wants to get into the crays/fishing for your Jurien trip...going by what you've posted on this thread, as well as the other where you asked if it's cray season, I'd say you need to check the regulations. Before you do anything, get a cray licence...for you it will cost $20...and go on the Fisheries' website and check all regs under "recreational rock lobster fishing". Sorry, I'm not smart enough to post up a link. There are bag and size limits, daily possession limits, rules regarding size/configuration of pots/escape gaps/floats/etc, female crays in various stages of reproduction...it goes on and on and you have to be up to scratch on all of it. And fisheries will be hitting places like Jurien HARD over the next few weeks.
Aaron's freediving suggestion is the most logical choice for you, I reckon...except doing it from a kayak (yes, I too saw the thread about driving a dinghy to Jurien) may be a bit of an adventure. Not being a yakker myself can you even get back in? And pulling pots from a yak isn't really an option, either. The lighter the pot, the less likely it will be there when you go to pull it the next day. There is a reason for all that steel ballast in the bottom of the pot...so it stays put!
The best freediving option for you that I can think of is a fairly large lump just in front of the marina, to the left...if you were coming out of the marina in a boat, bear left around the southern groyne and head towards the beach at a 45 degree angle...should come across it within 100 metres. Or you can swim out from the beach, starting a hundred metres south of the groyne. I think it's only about 6m deep. This time of year, there most likely would only be some grotty little (undersized) reds on it, but you never know.
If thats those green fold up style traps. They are illegal in WA. They can only be used in private dams or in Lake Argyle.. Im still shocked that they sell them here at all.
They sell them here because they're an eastern states company and all their stores are replicates of the eastern states model. Ever notice they dont sell any cray pots or cray pot parts? It's because there is no demand for them over east.
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oh ok, do you know where i
oh ok, do you know where i can buy cheeapish plasic really light craypots??
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mate i love your eagerness to
mate i love your eagerness to get out there and get a few crays. have you thought of free diving for them. Youll be surprised what you might find under a shallow ledge or lump. a half decent mask and flippers and a good set of gloves and your away. if youve done a bit of free diving before muck around with a weight belt it will help you alot. but dont just go chucking weights on you and diving down. start with a little until you know your strengths with swimming with the extra weights. and also make sure you can dump the weights if your in trouble.
hope your rewarded with a couple mate.
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Mate, you need to step back...
...and have a think about things. You're obviously a young, enthusiastic fella who really wants to get into the crays/fishing for your Jurien trip...going by what you've posted on this thread, as well as the other where you asked if it's cray season, I'd say you need to check the regulations. Before you do anything, get a cray licence...for you it will cost $20...and go on the Fisheries' website and check all regs under "recreational rock lobster fishing". Sorry, I'm not smart enough to post up a link. There are bag and size limits, daily possession limits, rules regarding size/configuration of pots/escape gaps/floats/etc, female crays in various stages of reproduction...it goes on and on and you have to be up to scratch on all of it. And fisheries will be hitting places like Jurien HARD over the next few weeks.
Aaron's freediving suggestion is the most logical choice for you, I reckon...except doing it from a kayak (yes, I too saw the thread about driving a dinghy to Jurien) may be a bit of an adventure. Not being a yakker myself can you even get back in? And pulling pots from a yak isn't really an option, either. The lighter the pot, the less likely it will be there when you go to pull it the next day. There is a reason for all that steel ballast in the bottom of the pot...so it stays put!
The best freediving option for you that I can think of is a fairly large lump just in front of the marina, to the left...if you were coming out of the marina in a boat, bear left around the southern groyne and head towards the beach at a 45 degree angle...should come across it within 100 metres. Or you can swim out from the beach, starting a hundred metres south of the groyne. I think it's only about 6m deep. This time of year, there most likely would only be some grotty little (undersized) reds on it, but you never know.
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If thats those green fold up style traps. They are illegal in WA. They can only be used in private dams or in Lake Argyle.. Im still shocked that they sell them here at all.
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They sell them here because
They sell them here because they're an eastern states company and all their stores are replicates of the eastern states model. Ever notice they dont sell any cray pots or cray pot parts? It's because there is no demand for them over east.