Charlie's yabbie hunting adventures

julia_bites

"Legal Yabby Trap (Opera house style trap)
Although a legal yabby trap in inland waters of Australia, it has been known to drown small turtles. When using traps like these its best to use soap for bait instead of meat. It actually works better and doesn't attract turtles.
Note the relatively small metal rings at each end that the Yabby must climb through making it impossible for medium and large turtles to gain access through."

Well i found this info on the fisheries website concerning the trap in your top two pics Charlie. And it only applies to redclaw

"Fishers on Lake Kununurra and the Ord River upstream of
the diversion dam and downstream of Lake Argyle may use
commercially available ‘opera house’ style traps that have
been specially modified to target redclaw. However, the
use of fish traps in all other Western Australian waters will
remain illegal".

Maybe Chillidude could provide the link that states its ok to use traps in public waterways because i can't find it
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Charlie

Fish traps are not the same as yabbie nets.

DrLuke

chillidude wrote:

mantis wrote:

Well, yabbying will always beat working

yep, even your best day at work

No offense to yabbying. But you guys must have shite jobs.

Charlie

The adventures continue once again. :cheers:

Went out camping last night and although it was raining I quite enjoyed myself. Set nets in 3 dams and got a few, they arent very big but a feed none the less. One of the dams had a fireplace so I made the most out of that while I was there to dry myself and keep warm.

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julia_bites

Nice feed Charlie, must be nice having access to so many dams

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rsevs3

I think that the next time im am out your way we should go camping.

Fire + Yabbies + Beer is a win for sure.

Charlie

Any time Ryan :thumbleft:

Got plenty of spare rooms here if you wanna stay for a weekend or something, we can go out and hit some of these dams and Ill show you what Kal has to offer. Usually take the rifles and shoot some roo's and rabbits whilst waiting to pull the traps.

Another haul today, took about 40 minutes to fill the esky so I had to come home.. :dontknow:

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verry jelous Charlie

Cheers
pete

Charlie

Some more pic's.

No animals were harmed in the making of these photographs....

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rsevs3

Seeing that it might be a special trip just to go camping. Awesome stuff man :thumbright:

Charlie

Any time mate. :thumbleft:

Simo

What hardware you using for the Roos? Brings back memories of shooting Roos with a 270 out the back of Southern Cross many moons ago.

I see that when it comes to the serious work you can't beat the old Landcruiser Charlie? :blackeye:

Charlie

We are using 243's Simo. Thats plenty of fire power when your dropping 5 ton of roo over 3 nights. A 270 simply just gets painful, expensive and not really required. It comes down to cost per round, we reload our own but its still not real cheap. One head shot, one roo. The roo's are sold to the local pet meat slaughter house and the black fella's buy the tails for a dollar each.

And yes, when it comes to buisness.. nothing stops the ol' Tojo. Mind you, its specially built for this kind of punishment. :thumbleft:

Medic4049

Ok u got my attn when u said reloading. What load r u using if u dont mind my asking??

Kangaroodog

Charlie, quick question for you, do all yabbies have the blue/red around their claws etc? I havent seen yabbies in WA with so mcuh blue as I have seen on the last trip to Kal, before that im sure they were more brown. Is there a reason for it? the Bro in law seemed to think it was to do with the water

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