How to catch Yabbies and Shrimp - Bait

[growler2058]

Soap over Easter Caught ship loads more than sausage


Tappin N Crappin

[taslucas]

Soap over Easter Caught ship loads more than sausage


Tappin N Crappin

I guess you don't have to wash them lol

tappin it

[Silver]

don't leave traps baited with soap in for too long - I did that in a bore drain out near Bourke, and when cooked up the yabbies tasted of Sunlight Soap - and on that basis I reckon they were eating it.

Macka is spot on with redclaw bait. you can also put cat food pellets into 300ml orange juice bottles and cable tie them into the traps - drill a few holes in the bottle, of course :-) Others use par boiled spuds, lucerne cubes, and pillies.

Check the regs for what kind of traps are legal in your area. I don't think the one in AB's picture above would be legal in QLD. Up here there is a specific si2e for the inner end of the tunnel, and it has to be rigid - usually with a steel ring. Meant to keep turtles out, apparently.

Taslucas, a mate has those yabbies on dry land around a spring at his place in Healesville in Victoria. I also saw a fascinating doco about them on TV - ok, I'm easily amused, but truly, it was interesting.

[taslucas]

Taslucas, a mate has those yabbies on dry land around a spring at his place in Healesville in Victoria. I also saw a fascinating doco about them on TV - ok, I'm easily amused, but truly, it was interesting.

Does he eat them? It's near impossible to catch one....I've never even seen one out of it's hole around home. I think they're fairly small anyway?


tappin it

[the ferret]

Most of the Yabbies I've seen in victoria are about 3 to 5 inches long and are a greeny colour, very yummy
here in the west, we call them jilgies, they grow upto about 9 inches and are a very dark blue almost black.
We also have the Marron, looks just like a jilgie but grows to over a foot, very similar to your redclaw.
Mate, these are better than any cray.

[Silver]

Does he eat them? It's near impossible to catch one....I've never even seen one out of it's hole around home. I think they're fairly small anyway?


tappin it

G'day Taslucas, I think we are talking about the 'land yabbies' linked here

http://www.dpi.vic.gov.au/fisheries/...ctoria-yabbies

[taslucas]

Yum they look like good eating ferret!

And thanks for the link silver the land yabbies that are mentioned right at the end are definitely the ones around home.....chimney building and really small. sneaky little nocturnal buggers, no wonder I haven't ever seen one.

tappin it

[the ferret]

Yum they look like good eating ferret!

And thanks for the link silver the land yabbies that are mentioned right at the end are definitely the ones around home.....chimney building and really small. sneaky little nocturnal buggers, no wonder I haven't ever seen one.

tappin it

These are even better, they are in fresh water in the NW of WA, this is the Cherabin, plenty in Lake Kunanurra.
I gotta tell ya they are yum!!

TOP FERRET BAIT TOO!!

[macca86]

Now I want crays and I'm in brisbane now. where does one go to get these yummy treats. Under rated by so many like most fresh water fish. I would much rather a good yellow belly or eel tail catfish over bream any day

[Silver]

Hey Macca, Nth Pine dam has shore accessible red claws - and you can fish for snub nose gar, and other freshwater suspects - the only issue can be a bit of company and the need to guard against sharefarmers.

I haven't been looking for ages, but Ausfish is not a bad Qld fishing forum and would have info on whether they are still active - I think they would be.

They are in a lot of the dams around here, and if that is all you are fishing for, you don't need a stocked impoundment permit.