Anyone catching crabs?

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A few in the harbour arms yesterday morning. A solo trip for a few hours potted these 5 with the 2 big boys at the front touching 3kg each, pretty sure they're two of the biggest I've caught over the years, absolute stonkers and full as Dirk Digglers missus 8) Nice return at todays $/kg rate. $10 in fuel and $300 worth of muddies :chef2:

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Melv wrote:A few in the harbour arms yesterday morning. A solo trip for a few hours potted these 5 with the 2 big boys at the front touching 3kg each, pretty sure they're two of the biggest I've caught over the years, absolute stonkers and full as Dirk Digglers missus 8) Nice return at todays $/kg rate. $10 in fuel and $300 worth of muddies :chef2:

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prices at the moment would put just the two big ones at 300 bucks. $50kg at the moment. bl..dy unreal i know.
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Wow, those are massive!! What did you use as a trap, a bl..dy modified shipping container!! Well done mate :bow:
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Melv wrote: full as Dirk Digglers missus
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cool catch mate :mrgreen:
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Couple from channel island way yesty. Could have been more if the crocs didn't take there share :(
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Crackalackin' crabs!
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Nice crabs there gents, looks like its picking up.
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A dozen this morning in the bay ....5 in a pot
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Are they those angry red crabs Balou or a hybrid? Never seen them that colour in the harbour, only the standard issue or the red ones. Only problem with the red ones is they sometimes have a small carapace relative to their claws. Quite often they have nice big claws but don't measure up in the body.

Nice haul BTW :mrgreen:

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Melv wrote:Are they those angry red crabs Balou or a hybrid? Never seen them that colour in the harbour, only the standard issue or the red ones. Only problem with the red ones is they sometimes have a small carapace relative to their claws. Quite often they have nice big claws but don't measure up in the body.

Nice haul BTW :mrgreen:

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Not sure about what species but they were :chef2: :chef2: .
We call them Rambos and there were quite afew today.
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Nice one mate. Hope you left a few for me tomorrow!
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Ripper crabs Tran. I will also be looking for a few when my whole family come up in a few weeks. It will be the first time all together in a long time, so I had better put on my crabbing hat... or else
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Got 11 bucks in leader creek Monday Tuesday soaked the pots for 30 hours
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scottmac wrote:Nice one mate. Hope you left a few for me tomorrow!

How you go today mate.

Left the pots marinate over night for another dozen today.

This ones we hid deep into the mangrove had crabs but the share farmer were busy overnight.
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