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I have a mate coming up from Adelaide and was keen to take him crabbing . As I haven't been out for a couple of months due to work and wind was wondering if there is still a few around or do we just go fishing ?

more crabs then fish getting around ATM.

well that was the case at SWA 2 weeks ago.

All I got was Jenny's at SWA last week so let them all go ! Some big ones to

yeah we got more jennys then bucks as well.
im same. dont bother taking the jennys only bucks.
but plenty of them. didnt have to let the pots soak very long to get results (30mins)

SWA last month we got 13 big bucks and twice the amount of jennies. Threw all the girls back and kept the boys. Managed the bucks by putting pots right up in the little arms coming off the main system. Jennies filled.our pots in the main system. Not sure if this was the key to getting the bucks though. Just seemed to be the pattern at the time. Heard Middle arm is crabbing really well for bucks as of late.

What for you mob let all the big jennies go. All they do is kill the small crabs. They don't breed! Juvinile crabs lay all the eggs. QLD law is 100 years old and is a load of cr.p!

I take anything that is size. Jennys are sweeter meat

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cuddlescooper wrote:What for you mob let all the big jennies go. All they do is kill the small crabs. They don't breed! Juvinile crabs lay all the eggs. QLD law is 100 years old and is a load of cr.p!

Thats it CC. Big Jennies are just Buck smashers. They go through menopause, get cranky with the young Bucks who try to mate with them and smash them up. Just like human females

Prefer jennies myself. Don't much like the texture of the big buck claw meat...

Thanks for the info looking forward to some chilli crab

Yes cuddlescooper and others are right big jennies kill all the smaller bucks trying to mate with them. With taking both at large size as we have done for many many years up here our crab stocks seem to be getting stronger, yet qld you would be lucky to get a size buck in ten trips. All about fishing management.

Fish Tank wrote:

cuddlescooper wrote:What for you mob let all the big jennies go. All they do is kill the small crabs. They don't breed! Juvinile crabs lay all the eggs. QLD law is 100 years old and is a load of cr.p!

Thats it CC. Big Jennies are just Buck smashers. They go through menopause, get cranky with the young Bucks who try to mate with them and smash them up. Just like human females

I'm with you guys, went to Shoal Bay yesterday, ended up with about 30 all up, kept 4 bucks and 4 big girls, nothin wrong with them tonight on the chew!

Same could be said about metre barra !!
Bit of a conservationist my self just would rather see a female that breeds in the ocean than a esky !!

DOUG wrote:Same could be said about metre barra !!
Bit of a conservationist my self just would rather see a female that breeds in the ocean than a esky !!

Big female barra breed. Big female crabs don't.

Since when ??