Crays n Reefes Sun9/4

[DougHanning]

Left manly at about 5am on Sunday to dive round moreton. First spot in the bay we were diving it was still abit dark and scary when 100kg+ groper appear out of the murk. Still we scored a couple of jacks,tuskys and a trout. Headed out off the top past Flinders and I managed a mackie and two jobbies. SCoured the coffee rocks for a few hours and got our bag of ten big crays but no mackies. Headed down off point lookout but only saw one billfish tail swimming off. Came in closer and got two more jacks and two small jews. Back through the bar and home to clean the catch. Lovely day.
Cheers all Doug
1.my bigger jobbie

[DougHanning]

2. The days work

[DougHanning]

3. Tonights dinner!

[vertico]

bloody top catch there doug

[isaac]

:o thats some quality variety doug, awesome stuff

[-spiro-]

Doug i wish i had the gumption to do what you do
Awesome
can you get any under water shots of spearing the crays? it would be good to see.
Question ---do the jacks hang on the bottom or up so far?
pm me if you want to keep it private

[White_Steenbras]

Well thats a good feed, suppose its difficult to catch/release when you spear the fish huh. :'(

[pittymick]

hey spiro, i know you asked doug, ::) i,ve seen heaps of jacks in the water they just seem to hang round structer, they just cruise round being the hunter not the hunted they seem to be very relaxed looking smash some food that jumps in its way,untill doug and his stainless come along anyway, so i would so bottom and mid water , you don,t miss many by the looks doug good work, wish my shooting was as good, good to hear you get a bit freeked out by the big blue sometimes too. :-?

[Scott15]

Shiit doug, awosme catch

[Sandman]

Bret will be jealous ;D

[Chrisco_stew]

Bet you Ymer will be doing the same rounds as doug did this weekend!!

Nice haul Doug

We will get ours up at north west mick [smiley=guitarist.gif]
Best you stop smoking now!

[bugman]

Not sure what to say - I'm a bit confused.

That seems like a lot of crays but none have actually made it to my house yet. :-X

Maybe Doug is unaware of the rule!

1/3 of all crayfish catches must be dropped off at my house withing 2 days of captures - OTHERWISE BAD THINGS HAPPEN.

Doug - we should talk.

Bugman

[finding_time]

Buggy

BAD THINGS HAPPEN!! hahahahahahaha


Doug if you take buggy fishing bad things will happen!!! :o You wont see a fish or cray all day!! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

And a sailing boat will probably run you over. ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Ian

[Chrisco_stew]

Brett I think you will be ok in Tassie. Breakfast lunch and dinner lobsters with a side of abolone..........................LUCKY PLICK

How much is it going to cost to send up a box of crays and a carton of ninth island sav blanc?

Best you find out ;D ;D

My flights are booked

Chriso

[devocean]

Bloody awesome

[TIM-DONSELAAR]

Well Done Doug...good variety of fish and some nice crays #[smiley=thumbsup.gif] [smiley=thumbsup.gif]

cheers tim #:D

[outsiderskip]

hi doug
nice feed of fish
love the crays

cheers pete

[Volcano]

Wow. thats what I call a feed.
:o
Love your work...

[DougHanning]

Thanks for the feedback guys.
We practice see and release, at the spots where we get our jacks there are usually between 8-15 of them but we only take a couple so they will still be there next time.
Spiro- the jacks we get down here are just about always in a wreck or cave. Sometimes they will be out swimming around but always within spitting distance of their shelter. If you ever catch one, lock in that gps spot as they frequent the same spots. All of my cray footage is on video but I'll take some pics of them lined up in their holes over Easter.
Bugman- sorry about that was unaware of the rule. They fed 12 of us last night. First crays of the season are always the sweetest.

I went through my D3 freedive watch last night and did over 100 dives at an average of 15m(crays in this depth). Thats 3km total distance travelled up and down and at an average of 1:15 thats over 1hr 40mins holding my breath. No wonder breathing feels easy today and my legs a little sore.
Cheers all and have a safe Easter Weekend Doug

[damons33]

you frikken legend doug~ :o
damon

[NeilD]

Un bloody believable!!!!

Great catch there. I had no idea there were so many Crays out there. At 15m they are pretty safe from me anyway

Neil

[-spiro-]

do they tend to hang with certain fish Doug? i got a few from Hendersons years ago{12-15} and i would always catch spangeld sweeties with them 8-)