queensland Mud crabs - Brisbane

[Sky]

I am looking for a good place to throw in a crab pot around Brisbane. We do not have a boat so a spot accessible by land would be great. I've considered Boggy Creek pinkenba or near Boondall wetlands.

[kmcrosby78]

I'd hop on Google Earth and go from there. Generally speaking, the harder it is to get to, the better it will crab, but obviously it's then a trade-off as far as how much you're prepared to trek through mud, sandflies, spiders, etc .....  . Good luck. Once you pick a spot, or spots, try to take note of patterns regarding rainfall, tide sizes, time of year to work out when they are likely to be in that area in numbers.

[Drop Bear]

13 hours ago, Sky said:

I am looking for a good place to throw in a crab pot around Brisbane. We do not have a boat so a spot accessible by land would be great. I've considered Boggy Creek pinkenba or near Boondall wetlands.

Yep same advice as KM. pretty much everywhere has muddies. We used to get them off the rock wall near toowong. Not a special place or anything. 

Post up some pics of your trip

[Gad]

only added advice I will offer on  KM's, and Drop Bear's is if you intend to set pots and leave them unattended for any period of time, hide/camoflauge your ropes and tag/float well....
most low life share farmers and their low life rellies, and mates are still on holidays with plenty of time to raid, and/or steal your pots.... sad, but active low life's are part and parcel of life these days
Hope you have rewarding efforts 

 

[kmcrosby78]

5 hours ago, Gad said:

only added advice I will offer on  KM's, and Drop Bear's is if you intend to set pots and leave them unattended for any period of time, hide/camoflauge your ropes and tag/float well....
most low life share farmers and their low life rellies, and mates are still on holidays with plenty of time to raid, and/or steal your pots.... sad, but active low life's are part and parcel of life these days
Hope you have rewarding efforts 

 

Yep, good call Gad. We put some in via kayak/canoe in Tingalpa Creek within the last week and had two stolen in the main channel within view of the fishing platform which is popular IN THE MIDDLE OF THE DAY ....... . I'd checked them in the morning (no luck - they'd been checked ..... ) but still had one more to find so I re-baited and planned to come back in the arvo closer to low tide to find two gone and someone else's pot in their place (above what we assume is a cracked water pipe or otherwise a wonky hole - my brother and dad pulled three crabs out of that pot the day before ). They pulled out 6 in total for the first overnight soak so at least we got some crabs for our efforts.

Actually @Sky, another tip is to cable tie closed the top of your pot so you know if someone has opened it (they'd need to cut it) to steal your crabs. Doesn't stop them, but makes you think twice about re-setting them ......

[kmcrosby78]

Photo for inspiration … . My brother took 4 as he was heading home and we were confident we’d get more …. .

[Drop Bear]

On 08/01/2022 at 9:07 PM, kmcrosby78 said:

Photo for inspiration …

Nice crabs there mate. We got a few over at straddie before the wind and rain made it a lot nicer to sit on the deck. Did he get them before the full moon? 

PS 4 sleeps till we get our Straddie house. Yay. 

[kmcrosby78]

13 hours ago, Drop Bear said:

Nice crabs there mate. We got a few over at straddie before the wind and rain made it a lot nicer to sit on the deck. Did he get them before the full moon? 

PS 4 sleeps till we get our Straddie house. Yay. 

We put them in last Sunday arvo then my brother and dad pulled the 6 crabs out on the Monday morning - the new moon was Monday night. 

Straddie house? Moving or holiday home? Intrigued ........ 

[Drop Bear]

10 hours ago, kmcrosby78 said:

We put them in last Sunday arvo then my brother and dad pulled the 6 crabs out on the Monday morning - the new moon was Monday night. 

Straddie house? Moving or holiday home? Intrigued ........ 

We bought a house at Amity.  Gonna try and work from there for a while.

[Ed.]

Nice, you should be able to do some ballooning for sharks from the Amity point rock wall with those reels you are about to buy! Commuting back and forth to the mainland might be a bit expensive though or do locals get a special rate?

[Drop Bear]

5 hours ago, Ed. said:

Nice, you should be able to do some ballooning for sharks from the Amity point rock wall with those reels you are about to buy! Commuting back and forth to the mainland might be a bit expensive though or do locals get a special rate?

There is a special rate but it doesn't make it that much better. The plan is to mostly use the fast barge. We have some mountain bikes and don't really need more than that. I will be yak fishing mostly and have a trolley that I hope to fit to the bike. 

Ballooning could be great fun.  It should be ok at the high and low water range and you normally get an easterly of some type in the afternoons.  I could also take the baits out on the yak. 

 

[Ed.]

Is this your main home now or just a holiday house?

[Drop Bear]

On 11/01/2022 at 3:41 PM, Ed. said:

Is this your main home now or just a holiday house?

Not sure yet...

 

[Ed.]

So party, party, party at your place eh!

[Drop Bear]

8 minutes ago, Ed. said:

So party, party, party at your place eh!

Always. 

[Drop Bear]

oh except today... waiting for a covid result... 

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Hi @Sky

Any jetty along the river is worth a shot. Leave your pots overnight, but drop them early before anyone can nick them. 

If you don’t get any crabs try a different jetty. Use Google maps to find your spot.

Cheers Hamish

[Ed.]

On 12/01/2022 at 4:44 PM, Drop Bear said:

oh except today... waiting for a covid result... 

So how did it go?

[Drop Bear]

7 hours ago, Ed. said:

So how did it go?

Not good... well I don't have mine yet but Mrs Drop Bear is positive and I have symptoms... Poop.