Friday, Saturday

[chewie]

I snuck out for a fish the last 2 days. Friday on Botany bay, and Today on the harbour.

Fridays main purpose was to target Blue swimmers and flick around some plastics.

We managed a few Flatties, Flounder and trevs and interestingly, we managed 4 crabs all of which were female with a belly full of eggs so we released them.

At about 4 we got absolutely smashed by the 40knot winds and it was fun crossing the bay back to the ramp but made it very hard to collect the traps.

Today we fished for a feed of whiting. We did well landing 9 with some nice big 41cm models thrown in. we also tangled with a few keeper bream and another pregnant blue swimmer.

We all came home with a nice feed. Its pretty cool how round the whiting is compared to the Powerade bottle.

Chewie

[bluebottle18]

Unbelieveable catch there. They look like what you`d catch in SA.

Enjoy the feed they will be delicious

[Guest Finno]

Well done on the whiting, great feed keep it up.

Edited September 24, 2011 by Finno

[tinny1]

Great catch of whiting,get them on bait or plastics ? ,must have been only you and me left out there on Friday when those winds came through it was crazy ,check out my tinny punching through it back to Kyeemagh ramp around 4pm

http://www.youtube.com/user/flickinlures#p/a/u/1/NxCTgn5e2J4

[jenno64]

Cracker White chaps there dude...dinner is served!

[macmac]

Hi,

Is it illegal to have female crabs?

Cheers, Phil

[ross patti]

Hi,

Is it illegal to have female crabs?

Cheers, Phil

Hey there Phil,

It's illegal to keep a female crab that has eggs.

To answer your next question, when you turn the female upside down, you can clearly see a whole bunch of small orange/brown eggs protruding.

Female blue swimmers are generally more brown in colour, so it's easy to tell them apart.

As far as keeping females without eggs . . . . well, I guess it's like keeping big flathead. You know for fact that you are killing breeding stock if you do keep them. Depends if you listen to your conscience, I guess.

[nath_reptile]

Chewie, thats a good feed of whiting, my favourite fish, Tinny1, cool vid you have there of bashing your way back into the cooks river....

[Hugeted]

Great fish mate!

Did you get them on lure or worms?

Cheers

ted

[Converted 2]

Hi mate, Shame with the blues.

[myocard]

Hi,

Is it illegal to have female crabs?

Cheers, Phil

Return them if they have eggs. This is very noticeable & very easy to check.

Conscience does not come into it - if they are not full of eggs you can keep them. Just comply with the size & bag limits.

[waldo60]

haha i was out in the bay on friday too, getting smashed at 3.30 ish all the way up the georges too to sandy point. I lost a witches hat or someone flogged it. Did anyone find one lol near red markers near the public moorings ???