10 each

127mm across

Suggest you head to the fisheries website and have a read.

Swan seem's to finally be producing the goods, mandurah estuary is always good

yer, ill head over to the website and double check...   just curiousity, where abouts in the swan? :p  and what times/tide seem to produce... ?  i generally have no idea when it comes to crabbing.. i just know the missus wants to go...  

dumped an amberjack carcus in the shallows around bicton an hour before dark, came back a few hours later and counted over 30 in a 10 meter radius, all undersize though. if you can stake down a few bait buckets ide assume they would come around.

over near bicton baths kinda area?  might have to do that, got a few snapper/tailor frames in the freezer. surely i could attract something ... probably just a shit load of blowies. but worth a try! :D

the missuses old man is oldschool fisho, he probably have some kinda idea.. might just ask him where we are headed. :D  might try near applecross jetty as well, i rekn if i set out a few frames 10m across somethign will come for a feed. :D

cheers Righteo 

Scooping in the swan is usually a lot of hard work, with long stretches between drinks. I have found spots where they congregated though, and it would be easily possible to bag out then.

Attracting them with frames might help though. good luck.

great name tha, before i gave them up, was my smoke of choice... :D

ive heard mosman bay is the go but better for pots not scooping, worth trying round there?

all i rememebr was when i was a kid, literally hundres.. you just walk along and they are everywhere, swan not like that? my mates telling me to go down to busso someone else pinjarra and another mate mandurah... all better spots than the swan i guess?

Yeah, I dunno how much longer I can keep smokin em....Missus is trying to put her foot down.

Mosmans was where I saw the congregations, but generally I think potting is the go there. I always see 1-2 while wading the flats during the day

so they must be around the area. Maybe try the claremont flats after dark with a dolphin torch.

You will get a lot more exercise in the swan looking for them then down south. I'm sure there are good spots around, but the numbers are down mandurah way in my experience. Doesn't seem to be as many as when I was a kid, but that could just be my memory playing tricks. Never tried the other estuaries, but my old man rates the bunno estuary.

thats why i gave the smokes the flic, luckily this one likes me fishing. gives her time away from me and she likes eating fish.. works well for me... rekns she will buy me a boat.. good deal - coz an engagement ring is a f%#kload cheaper... ;)

might just head down mandurah ways...

cheers guys :D 

Righeto- my phone told me i had a PM.. the page says i dont... cheers for the info. will give it a crack :D 

yeah mate i pmed ya but for some reason it never sent, ill try again.

the message came through to my fone.. who knows wats up with FW

think i sent the first one as an email.

Im hitting the estuary for a scoop tomorrow ill let you know how i go

good luck scottland!

mosmans was always fun to go with a bunch of mates, but not so much for scooping, unless u go during the night with a good headtorch, u can try lure the crabs in the flats by shining behind them :P
plus u can spot some cool stuff along the way :) (like slugs that squirt out red goop when u prod them)
also prawning :)
there's also a bunch of cobbler down there but theyre protected in the swan...

i'm sure ur misses will enjoy that if she goes :) just a bit of a hike around.

If you want to scoop the Swan/Canning River, I was wading the flats inbetween the Canning Bridge and South perth Yacht Club on Tuesday. It was a shame i didnt have a crab scoop because there was good numbers of big blues cruising the shallows. That was at about 1pm with an incoming tide. Otherwise the infamous Mandurah estuary would be worth a go this time of year. Walking along Coodanup foreshore Which is off of Wanjeep Rd will provide a feed.

The bag limit is 10 per person, 127mm across the carapace (back). If you use a coke can its actually a bit larger than 127mm so your minimizing the chance of keepers too. We sell the plastic crab gauges for $2.95 so its not a bad little investment. And dont be afraid to keep females either, The fisheries support the idea of a mixed bag, (Provided their not carrying eggs/ Spawning) The females quite often taste sweeter too.

Cheers

im quite close to canning bridge and fish the canning/swan regularly so i might go for a bit of a wade and see how i go, will try lure them in first with some frames staked down and hopefully score myself a feed :D  

 Was just down that way for a snorkel 40mins in the water shallow to 2 metres, one word "BARREN"

every time ive been past there as of late, theres around 100 pots out to the left of canning bridge and a flock of boats checking them.  maybe its been fished out.. shrug

 Yeh yours always going to get alot of people dropping nets in the deeper channels from deepwater point to canning bridge, thats where the blues mainly hang around, sometimes you get the strays that get lost in the shallows, night time however is a different story they come out to look for the females lol.

i slept in XD might go through the week or something

Sounds like things have changed in the past few days, The crabs that i seen were all within approx 1 meter deep.

i went into oceanside on friday-great service  from the guy there !

got some crab gauges, fishing stuff, and a large prawning scoop