Blue bone crabs, the best and what about palstics
Submitted by crasny1 on Mon, 2009-09-14 12:58
Dear Pilbarra and other experts. What is the best crabs for these tasty critters. Havent had much luck with Gulp crabs. Should you just forage for rick crabs at low tide, or visit a beach at night and land yourself some ghosties. Also it it worth a cray leg or piece of blue manna. I think the value of the fish would probably cover the outlay for the more expensive options. Just interested in an opinion because we see heaps but squid, prawn and mulies just dont seem to fuss them to much.
Neels
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SamC
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My recent trip up north we
My recent trip up north we did well on Atomic 3 1/4'' gold glitter paddle tails and 5'' Snapbacks in Shrimp and Blue w/ silver flecks!
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jay_burgess
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never had much luck with
never had much luck with ghosties, but those rock crabs round the islands seem to go alright.
poddyfish
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bluebone
yeh used to do very well with a lightly weighted rockcrab... have heard hermit crabs are awesome aswell but couldnt bring myself to use on of them haha! also used to do very well on muddie flippers!
if all else failed take a deep breath point and shoot lol
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Craig Pearse
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Still chaseing the blueie
Still chaseing the blueie Neels, easy 1- find bombey 2- put flippers and mask on 3- jump in and load speargun 4- shoot. LOL
best of luck m8y
Brucesta
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i haven't had much luck with
i haven't had much luck with crabs but i have tried with manna's before a 1/4 at a time but no luck with them staying on the hook. I have heard that big banana prawns work well (from coles or woolies) if you can bring yourself to spend the cash on a kilo or so of them without cooking them, i can't.
The last two i cuaght was on fresh local squid, a big bait always helps too i'd chuck the whole mob of tenticles on and at worst get a snapper for my trouble. once you break the drought HANG ON, man they pull hard!!!
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Ben Derecki
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blue mannas
Hit the Swan or your local Woollies and stock up on some blue manna crabs, rip the legs off and take them up with you next time mate.
Put a fewon a 4/0 or 5/0, drop them down, tighten your drag and hang on.
It's the #1 baldie bait for us at Denham, I assume it would work the same for further north?
scottnofish
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when i was last in denham
an old bloke i was fishing with used blue manner legs all week and he landed about 6 baldies i was using fresh tuna fillets and landed about 15 baldies so i say stuff the crab go for tuna fillets