Fresh water muscles

[Sheik]

Yeah my brother sat over one side of tthe creek and pretended to put a mussel on the fire and eat it so I did too and it tasted pretty ordinary. I was about ten. Best way to find them is to just go into the water to about your knees and just squeeze the mud or sand through your fingers. You'll soon pick em up if they're there. THere are nowhere near as many as there used to be maybe because of the drier seasons.
Eel tail catfish will eat them and you'll get cod on them too occassionally. Yellowbelly will very rarely eat them. As mentioned above, shrimp or yabbies are the best for them, and for cod. WOrms will get catties, yellowbelly and cod but aren't as good as yabbies or shrimp.

[odes20]

sorry to side track your thread muscles can be alright but try crayfish, put shrimp traps in river any where there is some sort of weed or grass, worms or borer grubs are good but one of the best baits is the arrow frog if you can catch them. Might be a bit hard with the amount of water around but you will find them near creek or dam under bark or sticks and logs just roll them over at night and look witht he torch. even find them in com tracks at water edge, put them on hook through the rear leg so you dont kill them and let them kick around under the water, yellows and cod cant resist them

any way good luck will struggle to catch anything after that flood but next year will be a cracker out west in the rivers, always after a flood it gets great.

i still stand that the muscles taste like crap you may as well boil cow shit mate taste better

supa

Hey I agree about the arrow frogs but arnt all frogs protected now?? If you know otherwise please advise.

Not that I agree with it because those arrow frogs are awesome bait. We used to
call them grey racers cause they are fast.

MUSCLES GREAT BAIT FOR WATER RATS

As for muscles, we used to use them for eel tail catfish and cracked open sitting on a rabbit trap plate they will catch you Water Rats, which are the only animal in Aust that has a genuine fur. However they also have been protected for a long time.!! ha ha

We had a family of freshly immigrated pommies living on the corner when i was a kid and the dad would go down the creek on weekends and get a tinful to cook up, must have put lead in his pencil! Cor Blimmie!

Cheers
John

[odes20]

A few pics to help the appetite.!

I s'pose if you start young!



Desirable?



Bewdiful!



My old Pommie Mate maybe? Lead for the pencil?

[mouse71]

Hey ODES YOUR RIGHT ALL FROGS IN OZ ARE PROTECTED