Blue Water Crabbing for Beginners
It’s the very start of winter and over the last couple of trips, Benny had almost run over a couple of commercial crab pots so it must be that time of year again. CRABS!! 🦀 Benny headed out one arvo and deployed a couple of pots around the areas where he has been regularly been seeing the other pots. The next morning he rounded up Deano and Bonnie when they raced out to check the pots. On the way out they tried to get some squid without any luck.
They then punched over to the first pot, after a bit of complaining from Benny about how heavy the pot is he finally got it up and she was stacked. There were blue swimmers and 3 spot crabs, males and females, big and small ones.
Benny then sorts them out and explains what’s what with a couple interesting facts and tricks. The keepers got put straight on ice for the best eating and all the females and undersized males go put back to live another day.
Deano drove to the next pot while Benny told a story about his dad’s hate for people stealing pots and a couple of his tricks to help stop people stealing them.
They pulled up to the next pot and she’s loaded once again.
Have a watch of the YouTube video to see how the rest of the day panned out!