Crays and pumpkins

[finga]

An old timer up this way was telling me the best way to catch crays is to use pumpkin.
He digs a hole near the edge of a dam and then bungs a plastic bucket in the hole (fills in the gap on the outside) and then puts some pumpkin scraps in as bait.
Has anyone tried this?
If so does it work?

I tried it but the moo's kept eating the bait :-?

Thanks then
Scott :)

[DAVE_S]

Whats a craw ?

[finga]

Whats a craw ?
Good question...I meant cray not craw but some people refer to crays as craws or crawdads or craybobs or freshwater yabbi's don't they??
Typo sorry :-[

Anyways these little buggers.
http://www.nma.gov.au/shared/libraries/images/exhibitions/resistance/fanny_balbuk/objects_slideshow/crayfish_w480/files/25067/Cray2_w480.jpg

[ronmac]

When i was a young fella, I lived on the South Coast / Wollongong area we called them Crawchies. Never used pumpkins. We used a yabbie trap with Sunlight Soap as bait, never failed. cheers ron.

[mull dog]

yeah finga. also try rockmelon, potatos and paw paw.

[gr hilly]

my old man used sweet potato i know that worked.
Hilly

[bennykenny]

yeah they love fruit i use anything on hand like peaches necterines apple pears. cant see why pumpkin wouldnt work, except for the cows eating it!!! the bucket trick sounds good to will have to give it ago.

[lippa]

get a better feed from the moo, so use pumkin to bait the moo's then shoot moo.

[finga]

get a better feed from the moo, so use pumkin to bait the moo's then shoot moo.
Only one problem with that.
The moo has a name and once they're named they're pets.
And it's Blue the moo.

So unless I want to be in the poo the moo called Blue better not be in the stew.

Look at that. I'm a poet and didn't know it ;D

[tunaticer]

Down Warwick / Stanthorpe way I used fresh rabbit pieces and could no go wrong. Half a dozen pieces of string and a landing net and could fill a 20 litre drum in about an hour, ready to boil on the camp fire.
During summer it is best to use a carton of beer. Sit in the water up to your tits drinking stubbs and reach down and carefully grab anything that feels like bubbles on your legs. An hour long soak will produce a bucket of yabbies and a well satisfied thirst.

If you intend on using vegetable matter for bait, peeled carrot is by far the best shot.

Keep soap away from cattle and sheep drinking sources.

[finga]

Gees Jack. Have you priced rabbit lately??
I'd be better off slicing some 'extra' off my thunder thighs and use that for bait.
Rabbits are not real common anymore. Maybe a roo tail??

They're pretty amasing little critters these crays/craws or what-ever you prefer to call them.
On the old farm the dam had been empty for a couple of years due to the big dry so I cleaned it out. I went down another 10-15'
As soon as it rained the buggers were back.
Another old codger told me they can burrow about 20' into the bank and hibernate for an extended period.
I had to believe him because the proof was there.
Just another good thing about this place. It's full of old codgers and their stories :)

I think I've sorted Blue out.
A wheelbarrow turned over sitting over the bucket tied down to some pegs seem to have fixed him. ;D

[Pridey]

Mango, mango or avacardo seed, potato

I've even used a dead snake as bait once..

most things work in my experience.

[odes20]

So Its proven then! They eat veges and meat so take your pic

So will it be one meat and 3 vege? or one vege and 3 meats??
LOL
Its great fun aint it and they are such good fun and experience for kids to catch. Such good bait as well
John

[lippa]

we used cow's liver as kids to go yabbying. so maybe practise some surgery on blue the moo. liver grows back so you should be able to harvest bait every 3 months from blue. blue wins, doesnt get turned into tasty t-bones, and you win, free bait for life!!!!

[STUIE63]

I used to get the gun out and blow a galah to pieces and use it

[finga]

blue wins
Your kidding right??
The blues winning next state of origin?? ::)

[lippa]

blues got as much chance as gillard winning the election!!!!!!!!!! qlder!!!!!!