Someone please tell me - southern rock lobster question
Submitted by Muppet on Tue, 2013-06-11 19:47
Crayfishing is new to me and apart from the father in laws pots, i have
never dropped a pot in the water. I am looking at moving to esperance.
Do southern rock lobster go into pots ?
That is the most important question before the move can happen !
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Terry
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yes
in a word , yes. they do. But that is about all I can say about them. Except they can be big buggers. I remember seeing one once that weighed 12lbs......
carnarvonite
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Yep
And don't set the pots on sand like you do for western rock lobsters during the whites.
baron 88
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Never had a lot of luck
But deeper water seems to be the key.
big john
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Abs
Plenty of abalone down that way Muppet.
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woody
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And southerns aren't as
And southerns aren't as common as westerns by a long shot....in fact not many rec fishers down here bother setting pots for them. Southern ocean doesn't always co-operate either.... Most guys that chase crays do it on scuba.
woody
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Hit me up if/when you get to
Hit me up if/when you get to town and I'll give you some inside info Muppet, always happy to help.
Muppet
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cheers
woody. will do. fingers crossed we get the move.
not looking forward to the cold if we get it
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Bodie
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Yep they do, have caught a
Yep they do, have caught a few myself. Shallow water too, under 10m and big thumping things too, was in wooden pots so no side release, was a lot of fun getting 3 or 4 BIG crays out of one pot!
carnarvonite
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Fighter crays
They don't call them fighter crays for nothing when you see what damage they can do with the sharp points on their feet.
Seen a diver who bear hugged a jumbo while swimming it back to the boat, its claws went straight through his wetsuit and ripped him to shreds, it might be something you do with a western jumbo cray but definitely not a southern, big mistake.
timboon
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In south oz down in the SE
In south oz down in the SE corner on the flattest days in summer, 40 degree temp we`d grab an esky full of beers and go drop netting for them in the dingi. It would be nothing to catch 20-30 ( keep the best 8 ) often a good sample, the Bulls loved crawling through the day when she`s flat in only a few metres of water. The Pro`s that fish the inside ground would double lift their pots on those days, often getting as many in the second pull after about 6 hours wet as they would for the night set....
The further west you come the more they taper off. Anywhere from Lincoln west it can be a pretty fickle fishery...
Quota`s were brought in too late in the Northern zone ( murray mouth west )in SA, the damage had already been done... As for the Eucla-Esperance area I know even the experienced pros scratch there head as to the fickle nature of the crays down there... You can set the same ground for a week, swell/no swell - moon/no moon etc etc and then they'll crawl the day your about to load the gear on for fresh ground thinking they not there....Anyway off track, Woody will help you I`m sure...