The Aussie Fisherman Greg catching big mudcrabs, in his Bonito fibreglass boat and his Yamaha outboard motor. I highly recommend Yamaha outboard motors for professional and recreational fishiers and crabbers. They are good on fuel and are the most reliable outboard motor in have ever used in my forty-six years of being a professional fisherman. I have had plenty of definite brands.
Getting back to pulling up my ultimate pro crab pot and putting it in the boat the right way. Making sure not to damage the crabs.
Putting fresh mullet bait in the crabpot.
When I was doing my apprenticeship as a bricklayer, on weekends when I was not laying bricks, one of my mates and I would go crab hooking. To do this y,you need a crab hook which is a 2 metre long steel round bar about 10mm thick with a handle on one end and curved on the other end. The mudcrabs like to dig deep holes in the mudbank and stay in there on the big tides. So when the tide is out w,e would find the crab holes and put the hook in . Soon as the hook hit the crab it would make a noise so we knew there was a crab in there. You just put the hook around the back of the crab and pull it out. It is illegal to do this now
That's the reason why I set my crab pot in that spot, so I could catch the mudcrabs going up the little channel to there crab holes. A good tip is,if you see big crab holes in the mudbank and lots of crab digging when the tide is out, it probably a great spot to set your crabpot for when the tide comes back in.
Show how to tie up mudcrabs the easy way.
Make sure the crabpot door is closed so the crabs can not get back out after they have a feed.
A safety tip, I have a rope tied to my leg and back to the motor, where it has a kill switch to stop the motor if I fall out of the boat. I don't want to be swimming after a boat that is motoring away. Where I do my crabbing there is lots of huge crocodiles so I don't want to be in that water too long
Make sure you throw the crabpot in the water the right way, if the crabpot is upside down the crabs will sit on top of the pot and try to eat the bait and not go into the crabpot.
I hope some of this will help you catch more mudcrabs and enjoy your day on the water.
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6 сен 2024
