Skippered trips

Don't want to drive? Bec will.

Small-group trips on Col's Tinnie with a local skipper who knows which mangrove bank the bucks are hiding under this week. You pull the pots. We do the rest.

Max 5 guests per trip. Private charters on request.

Cooked on the pontoon

Our signature trip

Catch & Cook with Bec

Morning · timed to the low tide

Bec sets the pots on the bottom of the tide and takes you fishing the flats while they soak. Then you pull them together, learn to sex and gauge every crab, and head back to the shed. Your keepers get steamed and served on the pontoon with lemon-myrtle butter, fresh bread and Moreton Bay prawns from the co-op.

Duration3.5 hrs

Group2–5

Price$165 pp

All gear, bait and licence-free fishing
Crab lunch on the pontoon (plus prawns if the pots are shy)
Take-home keepers in a cooler bag

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Shorncliffe Pier stretching out over Bramble Bay

Families & first-timers

The Dusk Pot Run

Afternoons · Sep–Apr

A short, gentle trip for families with small kids or anyone a bit nervous about driving a boat. We cruise past the Shorncliffe Pier and pull pots we set that morning. Then we sit in the creek mouth while the sun drops behind the Glass House Mountains, if the haze plays nice.

Duration2 hrs

Group2–5

Price$95 / $55 kid

Pre-set pots, so there's always something to pull
Kids get a laminated "Crab Inspector" badge
Back on the dock before dark

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Bucks only**the crabs

Groups & parties

Bucks on the Bay

Weekends · 3 to 6 tinnies

Yes, it's a crab joke. It's also the best bucks', hens' or work-team morning in north Brisbane. Three to six tinnies race to fill their pots, Bec referees from Col's Tinnie, and the biggest legal buck wins the trophy: a spray-painted crab claw on a stubby holder. Then it's a pontoon cook-up.

Duration4 hrs

Group8–20

Pricefrom $120 pp

Skipper-referee and safety boat on the water
Weigh-in, gauge-off and a trophy that's genuinely awful
Pontoon cook-up. BYO drinks for after (not before)

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School holidays

Junior Crab Inspectors.

A 90-minute session on the dock and in the shallows for 7–12 year olds: how pots work, how to tell a buck from a jenny, why we throw the small ones back, and what lives in the mangroves. Every kid leaves with their own gauge. $45 per kid. Runs Tuesdays and Thursdays in the Queensland school holidays.

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