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Are Darwin Harbour red rambo crabs up or down in 2019 (EDIT: And 2022?)?

Posted: Fri May 17, 2019 10:00 am
by Matt Flynn
Are Darwin Harbour red rambo crab numbers up or down in 2019?

Re: Are Darwin Harbour red rambo crabs up or down in 2019?

Posted: Fri May 17, 2019 4:39 pm
by NinjaFish
Starting to see them more in the local creeks where I haven't before.

Re: Are Darwin Harbour red rambo crabs up or down in 2019?

Posted: Sat May 18, 2019 10:03 am
by slug
I've had the pots out 1/2 doz times over the past 3 weeks - both harbour & Hope Inlet - muddies around in good numbers, but haven't seen a Rambo this year.

Wierd, cos last year I reckon I was getting close to 50/50 ??

Re: Are Darwin Harbour red rambo crabs up or down in 2019?

Posted: Tue Jul 02, 2019 12:13 pm
by Matt Flynn
Bumping this poll.

Re: Are Darwin Harbour red rambo crabs up or down in 2019?

Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 12:10 pm
by pms
Definitely down this year on previous few years. Dunno why.

Re: Are Darwin Harbour red rambo crabs up or down in 2019?

Posted: Wed Nov 20, 2019 1:25 pm
by mickd
Definitely way down. Agree with Slug. Nearly 50/50 last year.
More so in Shoal Bay and the creeks towards the harbour.
Buffalo creek, Sandy creek behind the hospital and rapid creek.
Into the harbour they seemed to thin out, with creeks on the other side holding even less.
I’d get 10 crabs fom Woods with only 1 or 2 Rambos but 50/50 in Shoal Bay.
This year I’ve hardly seen any, but I think evidence of inter breeding is evident

Re: Are Darwin Harbour red rambo crabs up or down in 2019?

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2022 1:11 pm
by Matt Flynn
How are red rambo crab numbers in 2022?

Re: Are Darwin Harbour red rambo crabs up or down in 2019?

Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2022 7:50 pm
by Gibbsy
Been more greens lately but that is in the harbour Matt not the bay. West arm has been producing green one between 17-19cm 😁

Re: Are Darwin Harbour red rambo crabs up or down in 2019?

Posted: Thu Aug 04, 2022 7:17 am
by Matt Flynn
West arm has been producing green one between 17-19cm
Gotta love the harbour! Seafood on tap.

Catching crays down here is a bit of mission, need a boat licence, a cray licence, and the pots aren't cheap either, and the bag limits are tight. Nor are the crays usually as abundant as mud crabs. Muddies must be running around like cockroaches in the harbour and Shoal Bay because heaps of people catch them but these spots keep producing.