went with my friend to empty his Crayfish traps at the weekend,netted about 50 crayfish (traps had been baited and left for 2 days) anyway im going to get the next catch,anyone on here like/tried crayfish? he has a licence to catch them from the environmental agency. couldnt believe how many we bagged !!!
Crayfish (american ones)
- Thread starter gary r
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Panter
Just call me Chris...
- Location
- Sittingbourne, Kent
No! but very interested to hear how you get on.
I've had the odd one hanging off of a cube of meat or Lamprey pellet when fishing and have often thought about getting the license but just never got around to it.
They're supposed to be very tasty!
I've had the odd one hanging off of a cube of meat or Lamprey pellet when fishing and have often thought about getting the license but just never got around to it.
They're supposed to be very tasty!
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
I didn't realise that you needed a licence (not that I go fishing), but I thought they were trying to reduce numbers of them anyway (the American ones), therefore you would think that they should be encouraging the catching of them.
Panter
Just call me Chris...
- Location
- Sittingbourne, Kent
I think they are, the license is (or was) free. I think it's only required to help stop people catching the native endangered British ones and to help correctly ID the signal crays (the invaders)
summerdays
Cycling in the sun
- Location
- Bristol
Thanks - that makes sense!
yes the traps need a registered "TAG" on them so they comply with environmental standards (so the traps wont harm any other animals)
Maz
Guru
The commercial fisheries I go to, ask us to crush them underfoot. Don't normally catch more than 2 or 3 in a single fishing session, so not worth taking them home for the cooking pot.
Gareth
Guru
- Location
- Norwich, Norfolk, UK
This is how I do 'em http://www.cookingforengineers.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1285&highlight=
I've tried American crayfish - the bigger invasive ones. A lot of effort for not a lot of flavour. If you could only get them in the shops I wouldn't bother.
Davidc
Guru
- Location
- Somerset UK
Yes, out of Cotswold Water Park. Not the tastiest invertebrates I've eaten but reasonable barbecue fodder. Wouldn't go out of my way to get them.
You have to put any British ones back.
You have to put any British ones back.
When canoeing down the Thames a couple of years ago we bought two of the collapsible lobster pots from a lock keeper to get the crayfish. They wanted us to catch as many as possible and kill any we did not eat.
You get enough over a single night to cook for breakfast in the morning
You get enough over a single night to cook for breakfast in the morning
Cyclist33
Guest
- Location
- Warrington
I'm pretty sure most of the big supermarkets do eg crayfish and rocket salad sarnies...
Cyclist33
Guest
- Location
- Warrington
Austropotamobius pallipes
Used to swarm chalk streams;
now you hide your face,
hunched up in a re-entrant
or wedged in the space
where a brick crumbled
from a culvert.
Now your American cousin’s in command –
daily marches along the riverbank,
bold, brash, claws of brass
clacking away at your erstwhile nest,
turning it into a family restaurant.
Bigger and impermanent.
Populations surge, others are sent out
in exilium, their millions dwindling,
former homes reduced to kindling.
But I have always preferred you, native cray,
for the complexity and cadence of your name,
the limpet striations of your pallid feet.
Used to swarm chalk streams;
now you hide your face,
hunched up in a re-entrant
or wedged in the space
where a brick crumbled
from a culvert.
Now your American cousin’s in command –
daily marches along the riverbank,
bold, brash, claws of brass
clacking away at your erstwhile nest,
turning it into a family restaurant.
Bigger and impermanent.
Populations surge, others are sent out
in exilium, their millions dwindling,
former homes reduced to kindling.
But I have always preferred you, native cray,
for the complexity and cadence of your name,
the limpet striations of your pallid feet.
Not round me, they don't. We think rocket is for Southern Bedwetters.
What I meant was that I only ate the American crayfish because I had gone to the trouble of catching them. If I could just buy them I wouldn't bother.
