I grew up in Woongoolba/Norwell in the 70’s and we used to fish this area all the time. Didn’t need pots we used to pull them up on lines all the time, great place and miss it so much

That's some really awesome footage of the crabs stalking the pots. As for the gaffer, I'd suggest that in this day and age, people are more likely to sink their pots rather than use floats. You and I know that pot raiders are way too common nowadays.

I learned many years ago that sadly, share farming was becoming commonplace. When I was growing up, fishing around the Pine, there was a code of conduct that everyone followed. But as years went on and crab prices went up, thieves started raiding pots. I wouldn't move out of line-of-sight of pots anywhere nowadays, unless it was in the middle of nowhere up north.

I went there during the week Josh and camped over, lost one pot when a big boat motored past where i was camped and cut the rope, but i did a lot of walking on the flats just exploring and got a good photo of two crabs having a noughty in a hole😊. I did walk one pot in to a little drain at low tide but only got two slightly undersize crabs. Ended up with one crab for the trip from the other pots, good one just under one and a half kilos but really enjoyed walking the flats. Took your advice and got a pair of those boots you use which are great. Cheers.

A few years back I was lucky enough to work at a place on the Brissie River that had a pretty decent water frontage & lots of mangroves so I didn't need to have a boat or wander around on mudbanks to catch a muddy, it was about one of the only good things about working at that place as they were pretty big dicks. Anyway I found a tin of pet food with a few holes punched in it with some normal bait sent the crabs mental & during the season I was getting 1 to 3 crabs a day from 2 pots I still have some photos but learned to send the pics out " after " I had eaten the crabs as I suddenly had a lot of short term friends, lol. P.S One notable accidental catch was a bloody big eel, kept me in bait for a week, them's were the days, love your videos, cheers. P.P.S No I won't tell you where I worked.

I live on the fraser coast the amount of share farming that goes on this time of year is insane i always try to hide my puts but it always amazes me how they find them

Interesting video it shows you why sometimes an overnight soak is needed for the fussy ones!

Here in the southeastern United States we primary go after blue crabs or stone crabs. You’re only allowed to keep one claw from the stone crabs and then they go back. Pot thieves are really bad here. In the 1970’s one fella kept stealing the crabs. A crusty old crabber caught him and shot two holes through the bottom of the guys boat. No one saw him stealing crabs again.

Loved the Video mate, Good work Good work.👍

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I was not aware that crabs are as active as you had shown them walking the bottom on video.

Old mate has sunk a pot, good on him, hope he got a crab

Nice video mate👍

Shanghaied into crabbing one night on the Fitzroy by an elderly local mate, I asked him to remind me how I could' tell the bucks from the jennys and he told me the jennys were the ones that don't turn red after y cook em. Lucky I took the torch down his back yard to the loaded pots by the river just after dark, they were covered in huge glistening bullants I mostly scraped off with a big stick and turfed into the drink.Only after I came back later with half a doz big bucks did he tell me there were crocs in the river.

Poor bloke is probably sick of having his pots nicked. If he was up to no good i reckon he would have taken yours as well. When i was a youngster i used to sink the whole rope and use a grapple hook - never lost or had one nicked that way. Now i have a boat, i play by the rules. I don’t get the stupid rule for whole address on the tag thing though, the thieves get your address, you don’t have theirs.

Hi very interesting. I have crabed that area for a long time and it is good to see life there, all though I would not eat the crabs from that area as all those houses in that area have septic tanks and the runoff goes into the under ground water system and runs out in the creeks. If you want to chase crabs go deep into the channels that is where the big ones are.😎

November packed full massive in my area.

Interesting!!

Didn't think you could measure from tip of the spikes ...always been measuring from the inside of the notch forward of the spike

Cool video!

Leave smaller crabs in your pot after checking them. Drop in another bait. The fresh bait getting chewed as burly, plus the activity, BRINGS MORE CRABS.

Cool Ep Bloke

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Plenty of crab about mate although not a lot of keepers, heard of a few good rustys coming from the upper reachers of the local systems but 👌

Few wingers as well.

once long ago if the month with an R they were usually full, wonder what has changed

I recon old mate was legit aye

I've done many types of saltwater fishing.. Lobstring. clamming. Scalloping. but I haven't done any crabbing. I find it very interesting You have a question. you say some of the crabs were empty and I didn't understand what you meant.

My dad zip ties his shut and you know they have been stolen

Someone's already been through there and got all the legal ones.

Grab ya self a hook to bring in ya rope lines before ya land in the drink son..! Love me some crab keep the content coming

Có những cuộc săn lùng hồi hộp tim đập mạnh và có bữa tiệc cua ngon ...không cần mua bẩy va mồi chúng là những kẻ tệ nhứt phổng tay trên CŨA chũ đã chờ đợi cua trong vài tiếng tội nghiệp lắm .

This was like watching a video of me crabbing lol. Always get a few but they are always green. At least you throw them back though. Most boneheads take them home 🙄

How comes I have never seen anyone mudcrabbing use a nice set of tongs or grippers too make it a little safer handling those things ? Just curious

Are you a telecom worker?

Whats a Floater crab ?

I trust nobody out there. That stems from when I was a kid and watched adults clean out my dads pots.....Seen it a few times in 70 years....

What do you mean by empty crab

Could be a keeper pot

To test if your crabs are legal, they have to go red in boiling water

umm wouldnt it be safer to use a pole to hook the line ... it looks like your in gator area.

😈😈😈 i only like the claws ,, couldnt you just hold onto one claw till they let it go ? Then they could have one claw left for survival against preditors ... but he'll have blue balls for quite some time ? 😈😈😈😈😈

That guy had to of been illegal crabbing in my opinion

Why don't you take the floaters home and feed them for a month

He knows he’s busted by you and pretending to try find his pot.

I wound call it illegal crabing I call it crabbing. To many people nock pots off.

You tube is screwed watching with all their dumb adds

The title is clickbait!!! Nothing happened...

Hey mate. My farts smell like roses 🌹

Check this out Bro u take the time to show in detail how the crab enter the pot and you kept 3 or 4 crab but # what's the purpose of catching them isn't to enjoy the tasty meat that only true crabers know how to clean and cook them and everyone usually has good recipes so without the catch clean and cook your videos are no different than anyone else's except those who take the time to film longer and show in detail, like you did with the crab entering the trap, again the goal is to catch a limit take them home and eat them so by not showing to me the most important is the eating

Since when have you wanted something legal?