Mud Crabbing Etiquette in Karratha

So I had a  bit of  a punt into Airport Creek  with a  mate to do a  spot of mudcrabbing.  Its not the biggest system so  youd expect  others  to be out dropping nets as well.

So we  pull up near one which we  werent sure  if  was  ours  or not  and  identified  it wasnt ours  without pulling the net and moved on and around  the  corner comes  flying another boat  obviously  the owner of said  crabnet who chases  us  down  to  the  point of  nudging  our 2 water crafts. I dont really  care  as  mine is  a  25 year old piece of shit quintrex  runabout  but  he managed  to  put  the  biggest  dent on  his   very new looking  quintrex coastrunner. So we pull up  and   starts accusing us  of  pulling his nets. All we  could  say   was no we  didnt  and..........they stood there just huffed and puffed with a look of "DERP" on their faces. I was waiting for them to jump over on ropes like pirates in the carribean and start swinging. Violence didnt eventuate  but was just wondering if  this  is  normal  behaviour?

Anyways in the chance  that skipper may be  a  contributer of this forum,  if  you are  the  owner  of  that  Quintrex coast runner off memory   you looked rather fat(keep ur shirt on dude)  with curly  hair  and   your  deckie  who  looked  like a  dwarf  with a  mohawk.........im really sorry  about the dent but we didnt see  you charging  up behind  like a raging homo.

 

That is all.

 

 


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awesome

Sat, 2011-10-15 15:35

lol another etiquette thread, awesome they seem popular,

no input on muddies apart from they are bloody expensive to buy down here,lol

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Im not mad  or anything hey. 

Sat, 2011-10-15 15:39

Im not mad  or anything hey.  Just stunned  people  behave   like that.

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Creek Rage...

Sat, 2011-10-15 16:18

Did you hear Banjos playing at the time...after reading that ....the first image I had was of that old american movie which the name of ...escapes me for the moment....yeah sounds a bit scary...

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Ha ha love the comments

Sat, 2011-10-15 16:20

Ha ha love the comments Busted. Pleny o d/heads out there. A good friend of mine teaches Skippers ticket courses and does private navigational and safety tutoring. The stories he tells me of the idiots he encounters in the class etc would make your hair stand on end. There are a couple of class acts from where I launch and we try to avoid them at all costs as they're going to kill themselves or someone else one day.

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Deliverance?

Sat, 2011-10-15 16:21

 

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lol

Sat, 2011-10-15 17:20

bit of entertainment

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Bad luck mate.....

Sat, 2011-10-15 19:44

Did you end up catching crabs, it would have been a shame if you went home empty after that episode.

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Nah mate nothing this time. 

Sun, 2011-10-16 07:39

Nah mate nothing this time.  We had pretty limited time on the water   with the   kids  and   women  at hearsons waiting. The pirate fella asked the same thing hahaha!

Give me  a call if  u need a deckie or good company bryn.....though  i may not be very good company for you if the wallabies smash  the allblacks  this arvo.  I know a  guy from work  who  got a  decent   size barra, threadie as well as a triple tail  at the nickol river  rockbar last week.

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paint your floats-then there

Sun, 2011-10-16 09:46

paint your floats-then there isnt an excuse for anyone to go near anyone elses!.

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Yeah i might  give em a  lick

Sun, 2011-10-16 10:57

Yeah i might  give em a  lick of  hot fluoro pink. 

They did  the  same  with  one of  our  nets which  was  fine  by  me.  Crystal Meth is  bad  hey. 

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yeah mate this town is full

Mon, 2012-03-05 11:11

yeah mate this town is full of crack heads

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CRABS AIRPORT?????????

Sun, 2011-10-16 18:12

 Mate the chances of pulling a muddie at airport has passed about 5 years.There are some real spankers on the water at the moment and crab pot mania has been a issue for a while.Best thing to do is drop your pots in the mangroves at hearsons ,more crabs there(dogs can find them LOL) Go a bit further too less slamed places and you will go alright.

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Have got crabs there  and

Mon, 2011-10-17 17:14

Have got crabs there  and know other  guys that do as well. Also been  with  Brynner  just round  the  corner  and hooked a few on a  low tide across from the island.

Mind you I only drop  2 nets at a time and would be happy with just 1 or 2 crabs for a feed unlike the 10 or 12 ole pirate boy  had spread out....dunno  but thats  taking the piss if you ask me.

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 i've had  aperson pull my

Sun, 2011-10-16 21:29

 i've had  aperson pull my pot and move it elsewhere because he wanted to fish that spot, probably got a muddy out of it too, i like to keep my pots in sight if i'm crabbing thats for sure, takes all risk of people"checking" your pots

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when i was a youngun i went

Tue, 2011-10-18 00:38

when i was a youngun i went to mandurah for the w.e with a mate. weve gone to a family freinds or something who were right near the (one of, i cant remember which) river, had their own 'private' little jetty etc. put some nets in off the jetty, gona back to the house for a while and then come back to check 'em- theres 2 dero bikie lookin dudes there fishin off the jetty with their own nets in, they see us and go "ey dont worry mate we put ur nets just over there', pointing to where our few nets have been unceremoniously piled in a corner... wtf?

the bloke that owned the jetty went down to have a chat, but they started gettin aggressive. what can ya do?

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I have been very pissed off

Fri, 2011-10-21 10:19

I have been very pissed off when trolling in the only decent part of a creek, and some knob comes and drops 5 bloody nets right in the middle of the troll stretch.

The best crabbing spots are not in the middle of the barra hole

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I hear you mate

Fri, 2011-10-21 13:27

Had a guy watch me troll for 15 minutes then when i reached the end of my troll run and went to turn around he dropped his pots straight down the run......... Unbelievible considering i was in Cossack and there is plenty of water there to crab. Who knows what people think sometimes.

 

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get naked and chicken wrestle

Fri, 2011-10-21 20:06

get naked and chicken wrestle in the mud!

 

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hahaha welcome back to the

Wed, 2011-10-26 17:36

edit - woops. just got told by picture perfect that youre not picture perfect. he said the same thing about the mud wrestling. hahaha

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Poor old

Wed, 2011-10-26 20:20

Poor old Picture_Perfect_Pilbara, prematurely ejected from the game. Wonder where she is now.......

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hahahaha tell that bung

Thu, 2011-10-27 14:43

hahahaha tell that bung headed prick that the guy from exmouth novatel rang and he wants to chicken wrestle!

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Picture perfect  said  he

Thu, 2011-10-27 18:20

Picture perfect  said  he wants back in.he's just a bit misunderstood. Once you get  to  know him  you'll realize he's an allright sort. Most  women wanna  be  with him, most  blokes  wanna be like him  and  with an organ like  phar lap he's  lucky I talk to him at all as  i tend   to dislike fellas  with a bigger wang then me........dont  like  too many  fellas  hey.

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Definately heard about the

Thu, 2011-10-27 19:06

Definately heard about the Wanger, but I assume that its an Opticool Illusion. Anyway, I thought he was scared of Sea-Snakes?

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mud crabs

Sun, 2011-12-18 13:36

Sorry for picking up an old thread, ive followed this site for ages and only just signed up...

 

I can also relate to this, i had soemone pull my pots up airport creek a week or so ago, they pulled them and dropped them in the middle of the creek, and then started to abuse me for putting them in they way of there trawl section...

 

I forgot they owned the creek...

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Should have got naked and

Tue, 2011-12-20 22:05

Should have got naked and chicken wrestled on the mud banks  mate!

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Am i missing a personal

Thu, 2011-12-22 12:15

Am i missing a personal chicken wresting joke?...

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 I guess Ktown is getting to

Sun, 2012-01-01 17:45

 I guess Ktown is getting to big for its creeks.No body should touch your gear but theres a few that think that they will own the world one day and every thing belongs to them.When I say there no crabs in airport you should just agree as most of these nobs read these threads but dont join the forums.Have you thought about poleing the crabs on low tide ,heaps of fun and no fat blokes as they get stuck

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So that's you and me out

Sun, 2012-01-01 20:08

So that's you and me out Wayne-O hehe ,any skinny buggers wanna go and hook some crabs for me? Please.

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Cmon Daisy, everyone loves a

Mon, 2012-01-02 16:48

Cmon Daisy, everyone loves a bit of poleing in the creek with their mates in summer, dont they?

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 LOL Daisy I was only going

Mon, 2012-01-02 20:00

 LOL Daisy I was only going to calls us well built in the middle area but after this xmas the patio was extended a bit more and the little fella hates the shade.New years resolution pole in the creeks Alone and catch only mud crabs

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Pouring my heart out to all

Mon, 2012-01-02 21:40

Pouring my heart out to all  with a really serious issue and  things  just  deteriorate to mud wrestling and poleing bromance....... *sighs*

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Are they sighs of yearning

Wed, 2012-01-04 21:13

Are they sighs of yearning bro, is that how you developed your username :-D Seriously though every one's got a right to use the creek.

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Its the people that trawl for

Tue, 2012-01-03 19:06

Its the people that trawl for barramundi that are the problem, think they own the joint then they only throw them back anyway!!

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If I catch anyone trawling

Wed, 2012-01-04 21:05

If I catch anyone trawling for Barra be warned a good poleing will ensue :-(, nothing like poleing a few mudholes after a big day on the Beers and Bazzas in the mighty Pilbara creeks.

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nice and slow action too, the

Thu, 2012-01-05 08:27

nice and slow action too, the mud is perfect lube

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Poleing with random people is

Tue, 2012-01-03 19:08

Poleing with random people is a good way to catch crabs ;-)

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sword fighters

Tue, 2012-01-03 19:12

sword fighters

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Not too long ago i actually

Thu, 2012-01-05 20:46

Not too long ago i actually seen with my own two eyes someone throwing someone else's crab nets into the mangrove's!

The young "Hooligans" had came into the creek after everyone else, but still they thought they owned the creek!

It was very upsetting picking up the empty emu export cans off the bank that they had left!

 

Get it together people

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Hmm Chooks and unruly

Thu, 2012-01-05 21:26

Hmm Chooks and unruly behaviour, I'm beginning to get the picture, how close were you to the action brother, might have been a ploy to get them onto the bank for a bit of Chicken Wrestling and poleing action. ;-P

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Daisy

Mon, 2012-02-13 20:22

daisy was that you chicken wrestling sat night?

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Hells yeah, it was crazy man,

Thu, 2012-02-16 19:06

Hells yeah, it was crazy man, get to touch other dudes inappropriately and it's all good, just like the arse pat after a goal kick in footy I guess.

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