Bit suspect!
Submitted by moyster on Wed, 2017-01-04 14:53
So have had our pots in since season started out the back of stragglers.
Today mate went past to rebait his pot and a pot we are sharing, all in a row and marked on gps and checked last wed.
All three pots missing?? One pot maybe, two pots bit suss but three pots in a row?
Apparently there are heaps of pots in that spot now, going out to do a long look in the morning.
Happy new year all.
meglodon
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Might be worth
It might pay you to do a bit of diving at the places indicated by your gps to ascertain if they may have been cut off or in fact have been removed.
Rob H
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Or that someone hasnt simply
Or that someone hasnt simply swapped the floats and moved them a few meters, how would you know?
Give a man a mask, and he'll show you his true face...
The older you get the more you realize that no one has a f++king clue what they're doing.
Everyone's just winging it.
Rob H
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Maybe just make sure he
Maybe just make sure he doesnt have the wrong co-ords though?
Give a man a mask, and he'll show you his true face...
The older you get the more you realize that no one has a f++king clue what they're doing.
Everyone's just winging it.
sea-kem
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So that was Wednesday before
So that was Wednesday before Xmas? Been some monster swell and winds in the meantime as you know. Could have moved a ways, fingers crossed you find em.
Love the West!
scano
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Yep might have moved with the swell and strong winds
He have a few pots in still and some have moved as far as 1 klms for where they were put in only a few days prior. There were a heap of pots all washed into the same area which indicated they weren't all pulled, but instead moved with the swell.
Jackfrost80
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Overheard some bloke at
Overheard some bloke at Dawesville saying his pots were being pulled because all these kents are down from Perth but then went on to say they'd also been shoving Emu Export cans in his bait box.
Talk about an oxymoron!
Officially off the Pies bandwagon
moyster
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Update.
Went out this morning and found them all about nearly half a k away!
Must have been a biggun, tore two batons of one pot!
Thanks all for yr advice, appreciate it!
Saulty2
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tore 2 batons seems suss
same happened to me as well as 1 of the escape hatch totally gone - removed ,either great white trying to get a feed or pullers trying to thraw you off the scent , half a K AWAY! must be sand where ur crayfishing otherwise would have gotten stuck ,doesnt explain if on sand batons broken .2 years back lost my craypot and magically re appeard in the same area at the end of the season ,go figure!
ranmar850
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If you blokes are going light on ballast they will walk.
Some of you are pulling by hand? Especially if they are wooden bottoms. Even steel bottoms need at least 7kg MINIMUM of ballast to keep them from moving with every surge in your relatively protected metro waters. And with that amount, in 15 metres of water, they'll still move. As for wooden bottoms, no matter how heavy they feel out of the water, wet wood floats when you drop it in and you need more than twice the ballast you'll get away with in steel bottoms. I used to dive on snagged pots a lot, and, for those that haven't done it, you'd amazed at how much they move around.
randall df223
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good advice. I have full
Fish! HARD!
Dale
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That's what deckies are for hey Randall.
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