crayfish pics

[camokid]

hi all just another free meal i had yesterday first time to eat local caught crayfish. they where lovely cooked them in butter with garlic chives black pepper and salt.

 

[MartinK9]

Blinking hell scared the bejesus out of me

 

[Weesi]

Those look fantastic camokid!.. Got me hungry now lol

 

[Iona]

I can only see the left half of MASSIVE pics...

not sure what's wrong, anyway... I'm in need of some more info please Camokid! I've never caught crayfish, don't know where to find them or anything! Little advice?

 

[camokid]

ha ha ha sorry lads im still messing about trying to load the pics properly that isn't the actual size of the cray's but we can wish...............

 

[MartinK9]

ha ha ha sorry lads im still messing about trying to load the pics properly that isn't the actual size of the cray's but we can wish...............

Still at least you got some of the little invaders

 

[camokid]

try again sorry im a bit behind the rest

 

[camokid]

 

[Kerne]

Excellent looking meal - how did you catch them?

 

[British Red]

I'd also love to know your trapping method - and how your experiences were of getting the relavent licenses and permissions?

 

[camokid]

i just made a mesh trap a box designe with a slope into it and put a nice fresh pice of fish and had a go by chance there where 5 signal crays in the trap the next day so it was a free meal 4 me.

 

[Iona]

British Red, any idea where I might find info on licenses/permissions etc? This side of things is all a bit new for me

 

[Twodogs]

Nice one Camo ,
Twodogs

 

[British Red]

naughty naughty...

British Red, any idea where I might find info on licenses/permissions etc? This side of things is all a bit new for me

Indeed - a specific licence is required to trap Red Signal crayfish.

There are plenty of threads on the subject with links

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/search.php?searchid=1187464&DoReWrite4

Not preaching - but its important to knwo that trapping them without a licence can get you in court!

Red

 

[gunslinger]

Indeed - a specific licence is required to trap Red Signal crayfish.

There are plenty of threads on the subject with links

http://www.bushcraftuk.com/forum/search.php?searchid=1187464&DoReWrite4

Not preaching - but its important to knwo that trapping them without a licence can get you in court!

Red

I know that you are supposed to have a licence Red,but do you know of any instances of someone being taken to court for this ??

ATB
GS

 

[camokid]

they would probley try and get you for poaching or trespass

 

[badgeringtim]

I think part of the point of the licencing is not just to make sure you dont get legal action against you but, and probably more importantly, to make sure that people trapping are disinfecting and not incidentally spreading crayfish plague around.
Suspected of being one of the main causes of decline of our natives.

As said previously pleantly of posts on this, depending on where you are however (look on the EA website for more detail) getting licences shouldnt be too taxing.

 

[Toadflax]

It may depend on the area you are in, but in the Thames, which is regarded as infested with signals, I was able to get a free license for a single trap for personal consumption without any problems at all - it arrived within a week of the application and covered me for a 6 month period - though I didn't actually go out trapping in the end.

As said earlier, there are several threads on the subject of licensing but application forms can be downloaded from the EA web site.


Geoff

 

[British Red]

I know that you are supposed to have a licence Red,but do you know of any instances of someone being taken to court for this ??

ATB
GS

I don't - its not something I follow as I haven't had the opportunity. For me its more about responsible hunting (as so many things are) - not spreading infection, not catching / injuring non target species etc.

Red

 

[camokid]

you should give it a go big red its easy to tell the species apart and as for infection you just gotta think what your doing if your moving the traps from pool to pool or river they need to be cleaned and disinfected do not relise crayfish anywhere its illegal to relise any non british species of any kind plus you dont let them go you eat them