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RE: Shrimping - BeardyMan - 18 March 2013
RE: Shrimping - Geordie_Rob - 18 March 2013
If you find a source of crayfish, don't tell anyone you're going & be very careful for the fuzz or water bailiffs. If they catch you, you will be in a spot of bother.
If you do find them though, you're a lucky bugger
RE: Shrimping - BeardyMan - 18 March 2013
(18 March 2013, 21:51)Geordie_Rob Wrote: If you find a source of crayfish, don't tell anyone you're going & be very careful for the fuzz or water bailiffs. If they catch you, you will be in a spot of bother.
If you do find them though, you're a lucky bugger
Cheers for the heads up Rob!
I thought they were okay to catch?
RE: Shrimping - Metroyeti - 18 March 2013
Not sure about crayfish thinj you need a permit/license?
Im new to fishing but everything you catch has to be a over a certain size. Been warned about the bailiffs, if you catch anything legal,ilegal and some random comes up and asks what youve caught your best to say no.
RE: Shrimping - BeardyMan - 18 March 2013
Hhmmmm, apparently they are quite numerous in the rivers Kennet and Lambourne. Not too far from me - might have to stop on the way home from work
RE: Shrimping - bigpaul - 19 March 2013
if you take out the American crayfish...which is in most of our rivers now...their bigger than the native ones(of course) than you'll be doing the British ones a favour.
RE: Shrimping - Geordie_Rob - 19 March 2013
Signal crayfish (American ones) eat their own young so taking adult crayfish makes the population grow rather than decline (god knows how having more of something that tastes yummy is a bad thing
) so they very rarely give permits to individuals to catch them.Having said that, if you were to set a trap "to target eels" or something not restricted & you get a couple of crayfish in the trap, it's then illegal to release them back into the wild. The law stated they must be dispatched & disposed of. I have read cooking is a good way to dispatch "unwanted" crayfish & inserting the cooked meat into the stomach of the human species via the mouth is a very good way of disposing of them
Also a tin of tuna in sunflower oil is supposedly good at attracting crayfish to traps so you better not put one of those in. I read a couple of nail holes in the top & bottom of the tuna tin is a very effective method of releasing the scent trail. Again best not to do this as you don't want to be accused of secretly targeting crays with your eel trap.
RE: Shrimping - Metroyeti - 19 March 2013
I have never tried crab,lobster or crayfish. Going tohave to investigate these traps.
RE: Shrimping - Metroyeti - 19 March 2013
RE: Shrimping - BeardyMan - 19 March 2013