Sharefarmers?

[rayke1938]

Another good day at hinze western arm our shrimp traps were very disappointing with only 5 shrimp in them after rebaiting them last Sunday. Think we may have s sharefarmer there, If lean next trip we will have to move them elsewhere. Fortunately i had a lot of shrimp in my tank at home that I had brought along. We went downstream to our favourite group of trees We pulled up to the first isolated tree and caught 30 odd bass in the first 90 minutes with most of the fish around the 30 to 33cm mark. At the end of the session the school moved to the other side of the tree which was 47 ft deep compared to 35 feet on the other side of the tree and we noticed that the fish were suffering from from barotrauma so we moved to the next group of trees where we caught all the fish last Sunday. The fish were a better size between 35 and 40cm and when we ran out of bait the tally was 46 bass. Hope the shrimp traps are more productive next trip

[AUS-BNE-FISHO]

Nice job Ray. Shame about the sharefarmers.

Hamish

[ellicat]

Apart from the thieves, it was a good day by the sounds of it. Beautiful day for it again.

[Kat]

Sounds like a great day fishing. Can you put something on the pots that will let you know if they have been messed with?

[Bob9863]

They say sharing is caring, but at lest when someone raided your mad cab pot in the NT, they were decent enough to leave you a 6 pack in it. 

Nice bass too, seems to be the week for them. 

[kmcrosby78]

Nice one Ray, couple of nice schools there. Hope the sharefarmers leave you alone next time.

[Hweebe]

17 hours ago, Kat said:

Sounds like a great day fishing. Can you put something on the pots that will let you know if they have been messed with?

Exactly what i was thinking - maybe simple cable tie

[rayke1938]

When we used to cable our redclaw pots in NPD quite often they were slashed open and the pot destroyed. A rubber band on the clip of shrimp pots is a good indicator. At least this time the pots were closed and the bait contains left in the pots. By the lack of shrimp and small redclaw I estimate that the pots were raided the previous day.

[Hweebe]

On 19/08/2022 at 7:33 PM, rayke1938 said:

When we used to cable our redclaw pots in NPD quite often they were slashed open and the pot destroyed. A rubber band on the clip of shrimp pots is a good indicator. At least this time the pots were closed and the bait contains left in the pots. By the lack of shrimp and small redclaw I estimate that the pots were raided the previous day.

So an honourable thief but the rubber bands is a simple tell tale for next time.