so, had arranged with a friend to meet up at the secret location on the new river/hertford just for those that don't like me using the words "secret location"
anyhow, terry had thought about calling me to cancel, as it was raining cats and dogs, but too late, I had been up with the larks and was already on route
we arrived around 10am, and after a quick coffee and chat, took the bicycle wheels in my newly made carrier (thanks to the wife)upto the river and set up, getting the nets in by 10.30
a friend gave us around 15 old advertising banners, which we used as covers for shed roofs etc, and now crayfish net bags
anyway, I made a joke that we needed to catch at least 120 in the first hour, using all eight of my wheel nets, terry commented that his grandson's record was 135 in an hour back at the end of september
well exactly an hour later, we had caught 141 :good: and also beating my record of 7 in one net, by doing an 8
after this we lost count as we walked up and down, lifting the nets one after the other, finishing on the second hour
once we had loading the 4x4 up and said our goodbyes, it was back home for a final count up and sort out, my missus has a couple of pictures on her phone not downloaded yet, of one of the biggest crays we have seen yet, posing with me and terry
we sorted them out, and re counted, the second hour we therefore caught 110 :good: giving us a total of 251 crayfish in 2 hours
sorted into piles, Ive started freezing around 120, another 120 are being kept alive, just chilled, for using later in the week, and the other few big un's, are going on the boil later tonight, as on arriving home, our neighbour had taken in a parcel for me, my big boiling pot from the usa, its not as big as I hoped, only 22 quarts, but it's a vast improvement on what we had on offer over here, am just awaiting a propagne burner to arrive, and then I'll be trying it the american way, of a proper crawfish boil, but probably instead of using CAJUN powder in the boil, will try reggae reggae sauce :yes:
Ill be on the look out for even bigger of this
and heres a few of the big ones
thanks again to terry, another great day out, hopefully more to follow next year,
anyhow, terry had thought about calling me to cancel, as it was raining cats and dogs, but too late, I had been up with the larks and was already on route
we arrived around 10am, and after a quick coffee and chat, took the bicycle wheels in my newly made carrier (thanks to the wife)upto the river and set up, getting the nets in by 10.30
a friend gave us around 15 old advertising banners, which we used as covers for shed roofs etc, and now crayfish net bags
anyway, I made a joke that we needed to catch at least 120 in the first hour, using all eight of my wheel nets, terry commented that his grandson's record was 135 in an hour back at the end of september
well exactly an hour later, we had caught 141 :good: and also beating my record of 7 in one net, by doing an 8
after this we lost count as we walked up and down, lifting the nets one after the other, finishing on the second hour
once we had loading the 4x4 up and said our goodbyes, it was back home for a final count up and sort out, my missus has a couple of pictures on her phone not downloaded yet, of one of the biggest crays we have seen yet, posing with me and terry
we sorted them out, and re counted, the second hour we therefore caught 110 :good: giving us a total of 251 crayfish in 2 hours
sorted into piles, Ive started freezing around 120, another 120 are being kept alive, just chilled, for using later in the week, and the other few big un's, are going on the boil later tonight, as on arriving home, our neighbour had taken in a parcel for me, my big boiling pot from the usa, its not as big as I hoped, only 22 quarts, but it's a vast improvement on what we had on offer over here, am just awaiting a propagne burner to arrive, and then I'll be trying it the american way, of a proper crawfish boil, but probably instead of using CAJUN powder in the boil, will try reggae reggae sauce :yes:
Ill be on the look out for even bigger of this
and heres a few of the big ones
thanks again to terry, another great day out, hopefully more to follow next year,
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