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19th April 2012, 07:46 PM
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Administrator
How to catch Yabbies and Shrimp - Bait
The old days as kids using the bit of stinky meat tied to the bit of string and trying to slowly pull it in and flinging it over your head at the last minute to only hit your mate in the face are long gone...LMAO
The best way to get shrimp for bait (if legal in your part of the world) is to put a bar of environmentally safe phosphate-free soap in the Opera house net.
Shrimp and Yabbies love it. Easy bait as well!!!
You can also use some stinky rotten meat for the Yabbies.
Now, I heard a story from a forum member up at Loveday that the reason Yabbies are attracted to soap and meat is that they hate it and they are trying to get to it to then take it away from their homes.
I have never heard that before....Can anyone confirm this???
Opera house net below...
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19th April 2012 07:46 PM
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19th April 2012, 07:58 PM
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I am he, fear me
Nah... Yab's will eat almost anything. They are just coming for a feed. The oils etc in soap fool 'em into thinking it is tucker.
I caught a big feed a few weeks ago on 2 fresh chicken necks but just about anything will work, pet food, soap, potato, road kill. Pretty much haven't found anything they won't eat yet.
Dolphins are so smart that within a few weeks of captivity, they can train people to stand on the very edge of the pool and throw them fish.
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19th April 2012, 08:04 PM
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Hardcore
They love chook pellets, that brings the yabbies in
Cheers, the ferret.
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19th April 2012, 08:04 PM
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19th April 2012, 08:17 PM
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Patrol God
I have never eaten a yabby. I would love to try one. We get em down here but they're real small, they're the ones that's make little mud chimneys in real muddy areas around creeks.
Eaten a good few fresh water lobsters (obviously before they were illegal to touch!!) and Crayfish and crabs pale in comparison compared to them. But I'd imagine a yabby would be similar, being fresh water.....
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19th April 2012, 08:37 PM
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Administrator
Yabbies are good eating. I know someone who pickles them too and done right they taste even better!
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19th April 2012, 08:56 PM
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Patrol God
Yabbies are good eating. I know someone who pickles them too and done right they taste even better!
Wow that sounds different!
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19th April 2012, 08:59 PM
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19th April 2012, 09:21 PM
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Hardcore
Blue and red claw love the honey dew and rock melon we used that while in rocky with full nets coming back up was nice
Whoever appeals to the law against his fellow man is either a fool or a coward.
Whoever cannot take care of themselves without that law is both.
For a wounded man shall say to his assailant,
'If I live, I will kill you. If I die, You are forgiven.'
Such is the rule of honour.
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19th April 2012, 09:31 PM
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The 747
Never heard of using soap, will have to try it!
When we drop yabby nets in the Morwell River we always end up with eels.
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