Painted Cray : crays

Doevy · Posted: Mon Mar 20, 2006 10:05 pm Post subject: Painted Cray

Ive seen plenty of photos of painted cray but to date i have been unable to find much info about catching these bad boys????????

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a_nomad- · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 9:05 am Post subject:

I have only ever heard of them being caught by accident. usually caught in baited pots down south. not to sure about up here.

2rods- · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:09 am Post subject:

Have got a few from Cobourg with a spear and a mask :lol:

And got 1 from the mouth of leaders creek years ago on a live bait.

chanos- · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 10:50 am Post subject: Catching crays

Painted crays are basically vegetarian, unlike their southern cousins who eat anything. Thats why painted crays will not enter the traditional cray pots. However I have heard of using mangoes for bait in a crab pot and it "supposedly" works in the right areas....eg weed reef maybe. You could even try nailing your pot to the reef with tent pegs on the low tide then go back and get it next low....... stops the current washing it away.
I have seen 2 caught on a baited line but they were actually tangled, not caught as such. At the wessel islands you can walk around the rock pools at low tide and pick them up. I f you dive for them, make sure you stop them kicking as soon as you grab them as the popping noise from the tail attracts every shark for miles. An easy way to get them out of a hole is to have a plastic bottle full of bleach with a bit of hose attached. poke the hose down beside em and give it a squirt, they come out like a rocket.
Anyway.... some food for thought there.

Regards Chanos.

2rods- · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:34 am Post subject:

Yep been told that they are vego's but I don't think that is 100% true!

The one I got was on a live jew fish. It was not tangled up.. it had been eating the poor little bugger (buy the marks on it) and the hook got stuck near the mouth of the cray!

I thought I had a mud crab on to start with as it was gentle pulling the line just like they do when they "steal" your bait.[/img]

guest(chanos) · **Barrabucks points on hand:** Locked **Bank:** Locked

Hmm maybe they play each way at certain times eh. I know I have caught luderick down south on sandworms and they are dyed in the wool weed eaters except for a certain time of year.

Regards Chanos

Matt Flynn- · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 3:10 pm Post subject: crays

As I understand it we get painted and olive crays up here and the olives do eat meat, and they are therefore probably the ones that get caught on baits.

But maybe the painted crays need a meat fix now and then.

I like the mango-in-the-crab pot idea - try it on the Nightcliff bommies, there's a few crays there.

It would be nice to find a method the doesn't involve getting wet and friendly with sharks and crocs. Spotlighting reef shallows at low tide works in some areas. I don't like the idea of squirting bleach at them though, it reminds me of cyanide fishing and putting carbide in crab holes - you might squirt bleach over a load of cray eggs and kill next year's crays.

dodgyone- · Posted: Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:41 pm Post subject: painted crays

Have seen a pair of Painted crays that a guy kept in a tank. They would eat anything meat no problems at all. Loved octopus particularly which I found really interesting because your usual Western Rock Lobster hates occy's. Probably something to do with occy's loving to steal crays out of pots.
Was told the reason they dont go into pots was because their feelers dont fold back over their body like other species so they cant get ionto the neck of the pot.

Chronic · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:22 pm Post subject:

A couple of years ago a friend and i caught 4 big painted cray on the reef between Gunn pnt and the Vernons, it was all luck as we were walking around and ive only ever got one other. where do i buy cray pots?

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Jay Burgess · Posted: Thu Nov 30, 2006 5:53 pm Post subject:

Dad and I got this one snorkelling off Exmouth in WA, I was about 8 at the time.

pagey · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 12:56 am Post subject:

nice swimmers jay :lol:

sorry couldnt help myself

Pagey

Jay Burgess · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:13 am Post subject:

pagey wrote:

nice swimmers jay :lol:

sorry couldnt help myself

Pagey

I prepared myself for that :cool:

Just couldn't help showing off m' big cray :wink:

pagey · Posted: Fri Dec 01, 2006 1:28 am Post subject:

makes up for it i spose :mrgreen:

back-cast · Posted: Thu Dec 14, 2006 3:57 pm Post subject:

..................I've got them spotlighting around sandy rockbars on Bathurst and Melville Island's you can see their eyes and then spear them ........................................................................................................................................................................ :lobster:

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