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I've never caught a yabbie, that's on my to do list.

I was watching a TV show and they said place a small can of cat food in the yabbie net, just open the lid a bit so the meat doesn't float away, apparently it's a very strong smell that yabbies love. Oh and they cant eat it as they can't get inside the tin.

I wish you luck.



-- Edited by Grams on Sunday 14th of April 2013 10:31:20 AM

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I read that yabbie hunting is popular with our travelers.  

What is the best way to catch these things? What works for you?

 

 

 

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They will go for a lot of different things .

Cat or dog food with small holes in the tins , dried dog biscuits , fresh meat ( the best ) ,

soap , rock melon , spuds , carrots , chook carcass , fish carcass . All work . Leave nets in the water overnight seems

to get the best results for me .

 

In NSW , opera house nets are banned anywhere east of the Newell Hwy .



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If you have a catching net on a handle of the type you use when fishing, you can tie a meaty bone (preferably a bit "off") to a piece of string, throw it in and wait. Like fish, you will feel the yabbies eating the bait, pull it in very slowly, and get them with the net before they let go and swim away. Overnight nets catch other critters, best to only leave them in an hour or 2 in the day-time.

Yabbies can taste a bit muddy, if you give them a few hours or a day in a bucket of clean water they improve a bit.

I won my kids approval when we moved to the country after years of city-living and I showed them how to catch yabbies.

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Not sure how legal but a stocking with a lump of meat or dog bickies . when they go to get at the food their claws get caught up in the nylon and you drag them ashore and into the pot

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I have two yabbie nets. I use sardines in a can with a few holes in the top. Also leave the nets out overnight. Will be at Green Lake tomorrow so tomorrow night the nets will be in...



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What sort of nets are the best? We want to catch Red claw when we leave at the end of June (around the block)
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Stay close to the loo if you eat a lot of them

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two dogs wrote:

What sort of nets are the best? We want to catch Red claw when we leave at the end of June (around the block)
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Hi Andy:  My nets are small crab pots, small entries at each end with small diameter mesh. The pot has a pouch in the center in which I tie the sardine tin. You mention Red Claw, my favorite. Only place I've ever caught them is at that big dam at Emerald in Qld. Can't think of the Dam name. With 2 pots in overnight, must have caught 100 Red Claw. Really made a guts of myself for several days...  Ken.



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Hi folks. 

Firstly the best nets IMHOpinion would have to be the Opera house nets available from most fishing outlets. Cost between $8 - $10. Maybe even $12. 

In Queensland you are only allowed 4 nets per person. So in our case 8 nets.

It is an offence in Qld to throw back any Red Claws. 

The dam mention above is the Fairburn Dam outside Emerald.

Also the Somerset Dam  to the west of Brisbane by say 150 klms is a great spot for Red Claw.

So you southern folks heading north for the beautiful Queensland winter weather, place these two places on your list and you will not be disappointed. 

Many other dams  on the westernb side of the Great Dividing Range.

I think the bait question has been fairly well catered for by the above comments.

Jay&Dee

 



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try cooking them in as much sugar as salt to clear the mud taste, that is if you boil them. deep fry them or steam them is the better way. in w.a. they're very common but are an introduced species, slowly wiping out our Marron. some dams we use prawn nets and may be get a wheat bag full, good to desex them and put all the males in one dam so they grow out. they will eat the meat etc. that you put in a trap to get rid of it from their habitat. sometimes would be good to put some of these bad crims in there, though they would find the bones.

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JayDee wrote:

Hi folks. 

Firstly the best nets IMHOpinion would have to be the Opera house nets available from most fishing outlets. Cost between $8 - $10. Maybe even $12. 

In Queensland you are only allowed 4 nets per person. So in our case 8 nets.

It is an offence in Qld to throw back any Red Claws. 

The dam mention above is the Fairburn Dam outside Emerald.

Also the Somerset Dam  to the west of Brisbane by say 150 klms is a great spot for Red Claw.

So you southern folks heading north for the beautiful Queensland winter weather, place these two places on your list and you will not be disappointed. 

Many other dams  on the westernb side of the Great Dividing Range.

I think the bait question has been fairly well catered for by the above comments.

Jay&Dee

 

 Hi Jay & Dee. That's it Fairburn Dam. I'm originally from Brisbane but left in early 80s to work overseas. I recall that in past few years the Qld. Govt. stocked a lot of Dams with Red Claw although I didn't know about Somerset.  I tried the Dam at Proserpine several years ago but couldn't get near the waters edge because of reeds. Cooked properly, they are certainly good eating.... Ken.



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Thanks for the net information. Go to Rays Outdoors tomorrow. I had no idea they were a pest, Were they introduced from somewhere?
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Interesting about the sugar and salt in equal quantities. Asians do that in their cooking all the time. I've never eaten yabbie but I understand only the tail has enough flesh worth eating. Is that correct? As to taste, is it similar to prawn or more like lobster? Or crab, for that matter.

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Gary.... they taste like Mud!

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My cousin uses some fresh roadkill as bait if available.



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Only way i can eat them is cooked in Beer batter or soaked in vinegar and salt and black pepper, to kill the mud taste.



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I stay away from fresh water "seafood". If that makes sense...

I ate a few marron that were not de-veined and turned into a human pomegranate. I had to go to hospital at three in the morning. In the time it took me to walk from the front door to the counter, a nurse had a bottle of calamine lotion waiting for me!!!

I had a taxi job to take a customer to the airport at 5:00am, he took one look at me and offered to drive....

Never again.

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vk6tnc wrote:

I stay away from fresh water "seafood". If that makes sense...

I ate a few marron that were not de-veined and turned into a human pomegranate. I had to go to hospital at three in the morning. In the time it took me to walk from the front door to the counter, a nurse had a bottle of calamine lotion waiting for me!!!

I had a taxi job to take a customer to the airport at 5:00am, he took one look at me and offered to drive....

Never again.

 

 I like the fun of catching them more than eating them.rather go for a dive and get some crays/ lobsters.That is the thing i miss most Diving off the coat in WA.Best place in the world for diving.



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Diving off the coat in WA.Best place in the world for diving.

 The best time I had was at Coral Bay eating oysters off the rocks. Screwdriver in one hand, legs wrapped around a rock so I didn't get washed away, and a bottle of worcestshire sauce in the back pocket....



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vk6tnc wrote:
herbie wrote:
Diving off the coat in WA.Best place in the world for diving.

 The best time I had was at Coral Bay eating oysters off the rocks. Screwdriver in one hand, legs wrapped around a rock so I didn't get washed away, and a bottle of worcestshire sauce in the back pocket....

 Yes that is sweeeeet when eating oysters straight from the rocks.  I have done that on a few occasions and the flavour is so intense isn't it?  Man I should have put the worcestshire sauce in my pocket as well lol.  Thanks for the tip biggrin

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the sugar purges the mud, then they taste more like a crab. you have to watch they dont drown believe it or not if leaving them in a bucket



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Hmm we caught three and we did leave them in water for three days then cooked them when we
Got home no muddy taste whatsoever ,also have caught them in coen tasted delish like a giant prawn


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A few words of wisdom from NSW DPI

Yabbies feed on detritus (decaying material). Yabbies are much tastier if their gut has been emptied after harvesting and prior to sale. In order to improve the flavour, harvested yabbies need a period of cleansing in holding-tanks (purging) to empty the gut.

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