Shrimping

[BeardyMan]

Those weaver fish sound like horrible little buggers! I bought one of these for when we go out crabbing - just waiting for the arrival of some sunshine (and the net itself!)

Will this be any good for shrimp? I'm trying to find a source for cray fish locally

[Geordie_Rob]

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

[BeardyMan]

(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?

[Metroyeti]

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.

[BeardyMan]

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

[bigpaul]

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.

[Geordie_Rob]

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.

[Metroyeti]

I have never tried crab,lobster or crayfish. Going tohave to investigate these traps.

[Metroyeti]

Crayfish traps http://www.fishsouthwest.co.uk/forsalecrayfish.htm also googled eel traps and a few articles came up about otters drowning in traps, so I wouldnt use them if theres otters in your area

[BeardyMan]

(19 March 2013, 23:07)Metroyeti Wrote: Crayfish traps http://www.fishsouthwest.co.uk/forsalecrayfish.htm also googled eel traps and a few articles came up about otters drowning in traps, so I wouldnt use them if theres otters in your area

Good find. Shame the discounts for multiple purchases aren't very good, might have been worth approaching them for a group buy. I'm happy to investigate tomorrow an see if there's another supplier who would do a better rate if people are interested in getting some of these? I'd fancy 4 or 5 fer meself.