Rotto Crays
Submitted by tiimmbo on Tue, 2011-01-11 20:58
Could have bagged out our 12 in 1 dive the other day but every cray was full of berries. Tried a couple of different spots, 20m and 16m same story everywhere. Certainly a nice way to spend a hot morning though swimming around under the water. Going to hit the 3 mile tomorrow and see whats about.
Lamby
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Shame about the berries mate,
Shame about the berries mate, just got off the blower with Fitzy. Heard someone went in for a new loop and came out with a spanking BCD???
GrahamM
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Good to hear that they are
Good to hear that they are all berried up might have a good season in a few years time. pitty you didnt get any keepers though
tiimmbo
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I did
I did buy a new loop as well though !!
Reefmonkey
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Same story last week
We dived 20m and 14m on a lump near roe reef last week, exact same every single cray approx 10 or so was a big female in berry.
Had some luck though on the last dive of the week found a boys club in 8m off city of york bay not a single female around and bagged out.
Got this bad boy too for a photo and released.
Dave J.
wayneleech
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nice pic dave... looks a
nice pic dave... looks a monster!!
mattdoyle
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dived west kingston reef 2 weeks ago
dived west kingston reef 2 weeks ago and only sore 2 berryed my mate and i got 8 with a few getting away
spinksy
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Dived there over christmas
Was there over christmas and 75% of crays caught were berried... breeding ground! caught a few jumbo males but let them go dont keep the big ones they deserve to stay...
Brock O
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Hopfully Good
Signs for the future with this apparantly low puerulus count,
I have only been diving for six years but amazenly this is the first time / season for me to come across crays in sepotose or berrie.
Averaging two in berry per dive.
D_DOUSH
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Low Puerulus count???? Last
Low Puerulus count???? Last ones were through the roof!!!!!!
Brock O
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Sorry Mate
I thought they were low and thats why fisheries put more restrictions on the pro fishermen?
Thats what i herd and gathered from the nieghboring thread, Fisheries have done it again ! ! !
Leemo
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its happened before (forgot
its happened before (forgot what year), incredibly low peurelis recruitment recorded, turned out to be a bumper season everywere. the predicted season catch was about 40-50% lower than the actual catch.
bludgin' since 94'
Bodie
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we were getting truck loads
we were getting truck loads of berried ones int he pots earlier, starting to thin out a little now tho.
But some thumping males coming in tho!
tiimmbo
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Well
Well today we hit the back edge of the 3 mile for a bit of a look around. There were reasonable numbers of crays about but most of them were well and truly undersize. Managed 1 keeper out of 2 dives. Saw 1 that would have been no more than 15 cm long from tip to tail. Was a great day on/under the water though. Back to the ramp by 1pm then off to work for 3pm.