Well it's that time of year again here in brizzy to break out the castnets and go chasing banana prawns and tiger prawns too.
went down to tinnie creek last saturday morning in the pissing rain with a forecast for gale winds as well but to our luck the winds didn't happen so it was a wet morning throwing a castnet catching prawns.
the prawns aren't huge yet but that will come in the next couple of months as they grow very fast when they get the clean bay water into them.we ended up with half a 50 ltr esky for our troubles.
at present they are around the 4 inch mark with a few bigger ones thrown in but march they will hit the six inch mark and by may they will be what we call arm breakers ...as in they reach from your wrist to you elbow and it doesn't take long to fill a 50ltr esky with prawns that big.
banana prawns get around in scoals and to catch a couple of kilo's in a throw is nothing unusual , my best throw was 3/4 of a 50ltr esky in one throw..couldn't believe my eyes when I pulled up the net as I thought I had a few prawns in there but also thought I had a heep of those little black and white striped catfish and stuff but NO it was just pure prawns...holy crap...yeeehaaaaa!!!
stay tuned as the best is yet to come.
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went down to tinnie creek last saturday morning in the pissing rain with a forecast for gale winds as well but to our luck the winds didn't happen so it was a wet morning throwing a castnet catching prawns.
the prawns aren't huge yet but that will come in the next couple of months as they grow very fast when they get the clean bay water into them.we ended up with half a 50 ltr esky for our troubles.
at present they are around the 4 inch mark with a few bigger ones thrown in but march they will hit the six inch mark and by may they will be what we call arm breakers ...as in they reach from your wrist to you elbow and it doesn't take long to fill a 50ltr esky with prawns that big.
banana prawns get around in scoals and to catch a couple of kilo's in a throw is nothing unusual , my best throw was 3/4 of a 50ltr esky in one throw..couldn't believe my eyes when I pulled up the net as I thought I had a few prawns in there but also thought I had a heep of those little black and white striped catfish and stuff but NO it was just pure prawns...holy crap...yeeehaaaaa!!!
stay tuned as the best is yet to come.
ru 12 mug
make squid your friend...then bag them