Man The smallest fresh water cray you caught that day would have been a country record here in the United States keep it up man I wish we had big Crays like that in the U.S
When I was a kid we would visit my grandparents in Louisiana and I would tow down the bayou to my secret spot and I looked down into the old tree stump and there was a big ass crayfish down in the water it was in the size of the larger ones Robbie caught on this day.
I am from Louisiana, here in the states, and our crawfish are not that large but you catch hundreds of them in a sitting. We call them "mudbugs". Great to see you guys fishing down under. Great show! Thanks.
What an absolute monster! Here in the US I would catch those by hand at night in the ditch out back when I was a kid. Nothing close up that size though. It was rare that they'd be as large as those small crays you pulled out. We called them crawdads.
Love your work mate, you are a brilliant man, an master class with you videos and love. Human interaction with the environment is paramount to all of us. I am feeling well and happy knowing you are there, content and understanding our individual commitment to our magnificent country. Its so amazing that the crays are doing well in man made channels. Our size and bag limit is working. Nature is so wonderful a amazing mother too us all. Your commitment Robbie and love of our beautiful country reminds of the Steve you are a brilliant conservationists nature lover. I value you thanks Robbie you are a great Australian 👍 thank you for being yourself 👌👌👌🙂
Gday Robbie, thank you for inspiring my brother and I to go out cray fishing. It was a first time for me, and armed with some brand new metal bottomed nets we headed out. We caught 10 for the day. 9 undersized and one absolute monster at 14cm. You should have seen the scenes on the bank when that one came out ! But to catch a cray like that on our first go at it together was awesome ! So no keepers for the day, but what great fun it was. Oh, and the bait...Lucky dog 🐕. Cheers Robbie. Love your stuff. Brett
Great video Robbie. I'm a fellow writer in the Fishing Monthly Magazine, I report on the freshwater area for Western Australia. When our season opens in January I'll do a full report on where to go. As the other guys mentioned we have strict laws over here in WA and those net with the steel grill were introduced some 20 years ago . They not only let the juveniles escape , the marron also don't get tangled in the base . If you are over here I can take you to my secret pool that also holds some nice big redfin .
Hi Pete, thanks so much for that great info mate. It's always great to hear from fellow magazine journalists. Hopefully I will get over to WA one day mate.
@@robbiefishing cheers Robbie, I forgot to mention our marron season runs from early January until mid February and of course a license is required for public waters however, there are lots of private dams that hold monster size marron as they are rarely fished . These private property dams don't have state restrictions but the marron must not leave the property. I have one where we have a nice cook up of ( arguably ) the tastiest crustacean in Australia . Just let me know if you come this way . I'm heading to your area in early September after I finished with the bass at Glenbawn and yellas in Windemere 👍
Hi Robbie, I’ve been watching your channel for about two years now. I’ve learnt a lot about fishing and I’ve catch a lot of fish big or little. I’m so excited
Hey Robbie. It's so much fun watching you fish. Those yabbies are a special treat. Maybe one day you can make your way down to South Texas, USA. Plenty of largemouth bass, yellow bellied catfish and Alligator gar. Keep up the great work. 😎
Thank you so much for watching mate. I went to America in 2001. I absolutely loved the places and have dreamed of going back ever since. I really hope that I can make it back over some day, this time with my fishing rod. Haha
Thanks Craig. I had just kept two on my previous trip and I know that Rohan hasn't been able to get out a lot this year so it was an easy choice to make.
Good day mate Great fun , and prolific stock , maybe why there on the smaller size... Population x food etc... Rob very enjoyable and one of the better ways to start your week .... Best wishes to yourself and Loretta and girls ... 😎🇬🇧
I saw a monster crawdad bigger than those in Churn Creek near Redding, CA while snorkeling in the early 90s. It was as big as a lobster you get in the grocery stores! Scared me, because I didn't know they could get that big and it looked like it could take a toe off. We later found its carapace during the summer dry season.
Thanks Vincent. I had just had a feed a few days earlier and I know Rohan hadn't been able to get out so it was an easy decision to make. A great man is Rohan.
Those nets are all that's we allowed to use in Western Australia to allow the little Marron 2 fall through so we call them marron nets not crab nets. Crab nets have chicken wire on the bottom
Yeah they're very skittish not like the ones you're catching they love to just hang on and also the Marion has a lot more meat in the tail the tailes very deep on them and of course no spikes so no cut fingers and of course excellent fun just to catch
Thanks so much mate. I don't know if they will all get big to be honest. Either they will be harvested by people, or there won't be enough food for all of them.
Another great video Robbie always love your vids specially the cray vids wish i could catch crays where i live in s.a keep up the great content you bloody legend
South Louisiana here says get about 35lbs. of them bad dudes some zatarains seasoning, celery, lemons, onions, corn on the cob, small red potatoes, mushrooms, hotdogs/sausage, cold beer and it would be on like donkey kong for 5 or 6 people. Enjoyed the video. Definitely looks like you were having fun just catching and releasing👍
Wicked session on the Crays Robbie and a beautiful keeper . I have been using crab nets for a couple of seasons now and they are just as good in the rivers mate . What a healthy population and such a positive for the future 👍
Another great video Robbie, good to see you and Rohan out together again. By the way, I think those new nets would be better in snags rather than a net bottom getting tangled in everything.
Great stuff Robbie, I see Brendan explained the marron thingy in this comment before...I reckon you would love the South West of W.A at the right time of year...Thanks again for your vids 👍
Thanks Ryan, I know I would mate. It is definitely on my bucket list. Most people here dream of going north and fishing for Barramundi. I dream of going west and fishing for Marron. haha
Hi Robbie, great day on the crays I thought you might like to know how to tell a male from a female, the male has dots on the bottom legs closets to the tail & the female has dots in the 3rd legs from the tail, have a look next time you throw the nets in. I came in to anaconda when you where there but my 4y old son Sid got star struck & hid behind a display, that’s what kids do sometimes, keep up the good work🦞
Thanks so much Brad. Hahaha there were quite a few kids that clammed up. Haha Kids are the best, I live them. Thank you so much for coming down and for the info on seeing a cray. I know how to do it, but I always forget which one is which so tend to call every crayfish without eggs a male hahaha
Very nice to see that there’s healthy numbers of them. I’ve watched several of your videos and it’s great to see you obey the rules. You’re definitely top class! I’m just fortunate to see these creatures up close because I don’t live there or anywhere nearby. The only question I have is what do they taste like?! Lobster?
This spring summer, I'll be crayfishing for the first time. Since we don't have huge crabs like you do. I was just going to use an open 2 sided trap that they can't exit once in. Any tips??
I wish they would get that big in the U.S.....Especially about 40 years ago when we were kids we used to catch em and fry em up ....Delicious....Pain to peel and all that but when you're 12 yrs old and hungry with nothing better to do I guess it could've been worse!
Thanks mate. Its a big win for the crab nets for me. I bought 4 of each, so still have 4 unused white ones here. They still have their place, especially from a boat. But from the bank these crab pots are the bomb!
I wonder if you could use a paint pen or something to mark the shell of the ones you've caught to see if you catch them again in the same trip or soon after. I like the spiny crays to look at but I think I'd rather catch blueclaw. Not really sure why.
Man.... The UK even monitors the size of crawdads.....! I'm so sorry for the afflictions that come with authoritarian rule, my friend! Any of those crawdads would have been ok to eat here in the States. Out of common sense we let the little ones go, but anything over four inches is perfect. Sometimes I keep a couple of the little ones to jig with while I wait for my trap to fill up; where I live, it only takes about ten minutes, and the thing is completely full. Surprisingly I found the best crawdads in a small lake in Arizona! Clean and so sweet, the Goldwater Lake (a little outside of Prescott) Crawdads were the best I ever had. And there are some Dandies in there too! I had one that was ten inches ( at least) claw to tail. Brother you need to move here, and then we can show you some fishing holes!!
They are a completely different Family, Genus and Species to your crawdads. These Euastacus crays grow slowly and are very vulnerable to overexploitation. Marron in Western Australia grow faster, but we've got limited habitat for them, are delicious even by freshwater and saltwater crustacean standards, and again, very vulnerable to overexploitation. Basically, if we didn't have strict, scientifically based regulations for them, there wouldn't wouldn't be many left, and certainly very few big ones.
What a great day out👍 How good is it to see such good numbers on something that was almost fished out of existence. Good management and good support from fisho’s proves that you can turn things for the better. Do you think they are small in that area due to the high numbers(?) Like when reddies runt out in dams? Thanks for sharing Love your work Healthy habits
Thanks Moo Moo. I am not 100% sure but that is my thought as well. Quantity more than quality, which I would imagine comes from the fact that the channel is inaccessible for so much of its length.
now that's a LOBSTER ..would be a good little feed . But then again , what would it cost in a fine restaurant in Sydney or for that matter in Melbourne . top episode Robbie
Thanks so much Bob. I don't think you would ever find this species in a restaurant. There is no commercial fishery for them and to the best of my knowledge they are not farmed anywhere.
I have no idea why I watched and was about to change channels and you dropped the best one line ever when throwing the guy away see you later Bug Ben lol reminded me of vacation Big Ben parliament
Hahahahahaha Thanks mate. I remember that movie, when they just kept driving around and around in circles stuck in traffic. 😂😂😂 Chevy Chase is the best.
Hi Rexxy, it all depends on the bank mate. If it's a steep bank I like to go close to the edge but often I need to throw it right out to find a decent depth.
G'day Robbie, been watching for a while now! I find your videos so relaxing. Im planning a little roadtrip down south in search of the mighty Murray Cray before the season closes. Can you recommend a town/river to try out mate? Cheers. Leaving from the Sunshine Coast
Thanks mate. Their carapace length (from eye to start if tail) has to be a minimum of 19cm and a maximum of 12cm..Anything bigger or smaller must be returned.
Thanks Allan. I honestly don't know, but if it is, I doubt that anybody ever would because they would need to be the minimum size before you could keep it and that would be a very big bait haha
Jeremy Wade on River Monsters did an episode on Tasmanian crayfish. They get insanely large. They make the biggest one here look like a midget dwarf. They get to 6 kilos, or about 12 pounds, although a 4-6 pounder is considered large nowadays.
They sure are enormous. These crayfish are the second largest freshwater crayfish in the world, second only to the giant Tasmanian freshwater crayfish.
@@robbiefishing no but a fishing friend of mine suggested using peas. It sounded good so I typed it. I usually fish for trout, bass, pike, muskie and perch (I really, REALLY want to go after the perch under the Victoria falls in Africa).
My grandparents used to live near the Dismal swamp on the North Carolina side when we visited them , we could catch crawfish with a twig just put it into the mud mound and when the crustasion try to push it out with it's claws just rip it out of its hole ✔️
#4 is about the size of the largest one I've ever seen in Wisconsin, US. And by that I mean the one I saw was truly freakishly large so I kept it a couple hours until I found another normal sized one to compare it to. They were identical species so I guess the one was just a true freak.
That must be Australia, because that Cray fish is bigger than any lobster I have ever seen, we get Cray fish in creeks and rivers here in the United States. At least in North Carolina they don’t get larger than the size of your thumb.
Thanks mate. To be honest I would be surprised if they were not in there. I think they can survive in water with less oxygen that crayfish can so if the crays can survive there then surely the mussels can too.
Robbie, I don’t think you’re a professional carcinologist. However, as a successful Murray River Crays hunter, I am wondering if you any idea of what percentage of a large females 22-24K berries survive to maturity? Best regards and keep up your great crayfish and Yabbie hunting videos .
Thanks mate. To be honest I don't know myself. I photographed a tail full of eggs today and shared the photo on Instagram with the same question. I would imagine that it would vary from one waterway to another depending on how many predatory species there were.
Haha thank you so much for your kind words Brenda. Our winter is not even really cold where I live. It never snows here, but does in the nearby mountains.
Man The smallest fresh water cray you caught that day would have been a country record here in the United States keep it up man I wish we had big Crays like that in the U.S
Thanks mate. These are the second largest freshwater crayfish in the world. I feel blessed to have them at my doorstep.
Would not be a record. Most restaurants sell those big crayfish as lobsters. That size are readily avaiable.
I'm from the Midwest, the size of these blew my mind.
Louisiana currently farms Australian Red Claw, they can get to a decent size. If you have a warm bit of land maybe grow some
When I was a kid we would visit my grandparents in Louisiana and I would tow down the bayou to my secret spot and I looked down into the old tree stump and there was a big ass crayfish down in the water it was in the size of the larger ones Robbie caught on this day.
I am from Louisiana, here in the states, and our crawfish are not that large but you catch hundreds of them in a sitting. We call them "mudbugs". Great to see you guys fishing down under. Great show! Thanks.
Thanks so much Chris. We have smaller ones here that we call yabbies, they are similar to your mudbugs.
They hardly have any meat on them and are so dirty 😢
What an absolute monster! Here in the US I would catch those by hand at night in the ditch out back when I was a kid. Nothing close up that size though. It was rare that they'd be as large as those small crays you pulled out. We called them crawdads.
Love your work mate, you are a brilliant man, an master class with you videos and love. Human interaction with the environment is paramount to all of us. I am feeling well and happy knowing you are there, content and understanding our individual commitment to our magnificent country. Its so amazing that the crays are doing well in man made channels. Our size and bag limit is working. Nature is so wonderful a amazing mother too us all. Your commitment Robbie and love of our beautiful country reminds of the Steve you are a brilliant conservationists nature lover. I value you thanks Robbie you are a great Australian 👍 thank you for being yourself 👌👌👌🙂
Hi Jim thank you so much for your very kind words. I just absolutely love being out the bush and in nature. I can not get enough of it.
Gday Robbie, thank you for inspiring my brother and I to go out cray fishing. It was a first time for me, and armed with some brand new metal bottomed nets we headed out. We caught 10 for the day. 9 undersized and one absolute monster at 14cm. You should have seen the scenes on the bank when that one came out ! But to catch a cray like that on our first go at it together was awesome ! So no keepers for the day, but what great fun it was. Oh, and the bait...Lucky dog 🐕. Cheers Robbie. Love your stuff.
Brett
Hi Brett, that is so awesome. Well done mate. Isn't it just the best when you lift a cray net up and see those huge white claws. Haha
I like these crayfish nets. Hopefully, Anaconda still has them😊
Learning more what I can catch from rivers besides crabs.
Thank you heaps👍
Thank you so much Vilma. I hope you have a great day. 👍
@@robbiefishing Off to Anaconda today. I’m sure you are an inspiration to many❤️
Great video Robbie.
I'm a fellow writer in the Fishing Monthly Magazine, I report on the freshwater area for Western Australia.
When our season opens in January I'll do a full report on where to go.
As the other guys mentioned we have strict laws over here in WA and those net with the steel grill were introduced some 20 years ago . They not only let the juveniles escape , the marron also don't get tangled in the base .
If you are over here I can take you to my secret pool that also holds some nice big redfin .
Hi Pete, thanks so much for that great info mate. It's always great to hear from fellow magazine journalists.
Hopefully I will get over to WA one day mate.
@@robbiefishing cheers Robbie, I forgot to mention our marron season runs from early January until mid February and of course a license is required for public waters however, there are lots of private dams that hold monster size marron as they are rarely fished . These private property dams don't have state restrictions but the marron must not leave the property. I have one where we have a nice cook up of ( arguably ) the tastiest crustacean in Australia .
Just let me know if you come this way .
I'm heading to your area in early September after I finished with the bass at Glenbawn and yellas in Windemere 👍
@robbiefishing any recommendations for beginners in the Western Washington area
Hi Robbie, I’ve been watching your channel for about two years now. I’ve learnt a lot about fishing and I’ve catch a lot of fish big or little. I’m so excited
Thank you so much for your kind words Lew Lew.
I knew you would go back there after fishing catching heaps of crays, been looking forward for this vid to come out, great work
Thanks mate. Haha I was always going to get back over asap. LOL
First time watcher. As soon as you said “HEY YOU” i was like YEPP I LOVE THIS MAN ALREADY.
Hahaha thank you so much. I'm certainly an individual, but a fun loving and kind one.
A very nice day with the nets, I enjoyed your video.
Hey Robbie. It's so much fun watching you fish. Those yabbies are a special treat. Maybe one day you can make your way down to South Texas, USA. Plenty of largemouth bass, yellow bellied catfish and Alligator gar. Keep up the great work. 😎
Thank you so much for watching mate. I went to America in 2001. I absolutely loved the places and have dreamed of going back ever since. I really hope that I can make it back over some day, this time with my fishing rod. Haha
Great video Robbie and giving Rohan that big cray was fantastic.
Thanks Craig. I had just kept two on my previous trip and I know that Rohan hasn't been able to get out a lot this year so it was an easy choice to make.
It was very much appreciated! Thanks again Robbie
Good day mate
Great fun , and prolific stock , maybe why there on the smaller size...
Population x food etc...
Rob very enjoyable and one of the better ways to start your week ....
Best wishes to yourself and Loretta and girls ...
😎🇬🇧
Thank you so much mate. I agree 100%. Population x food. It's always either quality, or quantity. Rarely is it both.
They are all delicious 🤤 and survival is more important than regulations in many places these days.
I saw a monster crawdad bigger than those in Churn Creek near Redding, CA while snorkeling in the early 90s. It was as big as a lobster you get in the grocery stores! Scared me, because I didn't know they could get that big and it looked like it could take a toe off. We later found its carapace during the summer dry season.
WOW That is unreal.
Your a good friend looking after your buddies tummy. A friend for life.
Thanks Vincent. I had just had a feed a few days earlier and I know Rohan hadn't been able to get out so it was an easy decision to make. A great man is Rohan.
Nice work mate. Good to see Rowan out again.
Thanks so much Brad. It was great to be back out on the water with him.
Awesome numbers given the small area you were covering. That channel must be alive with them. Great video mate.
Thanks Ross. Thay channel must be crawling with them I reckon, especially with access being so limited.
Those nets are all that's we allowed to use in Western Australia to allow the little Marron 2 fall through so we call them marron nets not crab nets. Crab nets have chicken wire on the bottom
Hey mate thanks for the insight. I would love to catch Marron some day.
Yeah they're very skittish not like the ones you're catching they love to just hang on and also the Marion has a lot more meat in the tail the tailes very deep on them and of course no spikes so no cut fingers and of course excellent fun just to catch
Was about to fill Robbie in on the details myself Brendan, but looks like you have covered it well...cheers from the S.W 👍
Great session Robbie, and to see Rohan as well, what a bonus mate 👍🏼. Love the video mate…
Thanks so much Wayne. It sure was great to catch up with Rohan.
Looks like a spot that will produce some good sized crays in 5 years. Let's hope they keep coming for decades to come.
Thanks mate. I hope you are right, but I suspect that it may be more about quantity over quality in that spot.
AWESOME, what a great session!! Nice to Rowan again 👍
Thanks Mat. I was hoping you would see this after the conversation last night. They worked a treat mate. 👍👍
I subscribed in one of your last few videos your enthusiasm lifts my spirit thank you!
Thank you so much for your kind words mate.
This was wicked! So many cray! Gonna be a great spot when they all get bigger 😁 although it's pretty good now lol. Well done 😁👍
Thanks so much mate. I don't know if they will all get big to be honest. Either they will be harvested by people, or there won't be enough food for all of them.
@@robbiefishingyeah well, they're good points too. Well, you can only hope 🙂🤞
Great to see Rohan back in action. Good to see so many Crays.
Thanks mate, I agree on both.
Great to see Roan again watched his video other day maybe he could get some new ropes and some of those open top crab nets.
Thanks mate. He definitely needs new ropes. LOL
Another great video Robbie always love your vids specially the cray vids wish i could catch crays where i live in s.a keep up the great content you bloody legend
Thank you so much for your kind words mate. I love crayfishing, it is the think that I look forward to the most each winter.
South Louisiana here says get about 35lbs. of them bad dudes some zatarains seasoning, celery, lemons, onions, corn on the cob, small red potatoes, mushrooms, hotdogs/sausage, cold beer and it would be on like donkey kong for 5 or 6 people.
Enjoyed the video. Definitely looks like you were having fun just catching and releasing👍
I sure was having fun mate. I just absolutely love pulling my nets up and seeing those big white claws in the bottom..
Wicked session on the Crays Robbie and a beautiful keeper . I have been using crab nets for a couple of seasons now and they are just as good in the rivers mate . What a healthy population and such a positive for the future 👍
Thanks so much mate. I was certainly very impressed with the nets thats for sure.
straight up lobster size crays man! great job and most importantly you guys had a blast doing it!
Thanks mate, we sure did.
Love that your patience is improving
Haha only just. My ADHD prevents me from becoming too patient. LOL
Another great video Robbie, good to see you and Rohan out together again. By the way, I think those new nets would be better in snags rather than a net bottom getting tangled in everything.
Thanks so much Mick. I do too to be honest. I'm hoping to get out and give them a go in the river really soon.
@@robbiefishing, I hope you have success with them in snags, looking forward to finding out.
well done robbie,good to see rohan out and about.
AWESOME Robbie!!! Poor Rohan and his broken net ropes...
Thanks mate. LOL He sure was having a bad run.
Thanks for video. Great fishing.
Love ya work mate.... Might have to catch up for a fish and a cordial when I'm up that way...
Great stuff Robbie, I see Brendan explained the marron thingy in this comment before...I reckon you would love the South West of W.A at the right time of year...Thanks again for your vids 👍
Thanks Ryan, I know I would mate. It is definitely on my bucket list. Most people here dream of going north and fishing for Barramundi. I dream of going west and fishing for Marron. haha
@@robbiefishing You DO know you can get them here on the Mornington Peninsula right?
I so wish we had that species in the US! Ours are so small in comparison! Great video!
Thanks so much Floyd. These really are amazing creatures.
What a keeper! Awesome day on the crays. We’ll done Robbie 🤙🏻
Thanks mate, surebwas a ripper session
Love it mate !!! Big regards from North Yorkshire in England !!! You know your stuff buddy !!! We net American signalls over here, good feed !!!!
Thank you so much mate. I would love to go crayfishing in the U.K. for the invasive Signal Crayfish.
Hi Robbie, great day on the crays I thought you might like to know how to tell a male from a female, the male has dots on the bottom legs closets to the tail & the female has dots in the 3rd legs from the tail, have a look next time you throw the nets in.
I came in to anaconda when you where there but my 4y old son Sid got star struck & hid behind a display, that’s what kids do sometimes, keep up the good work🦞
Thanks so much Brad. Hahaha there were quite a few kids that clammed up. Haha Kids are the best, I live them. Thank you so much for coming down and for the info on seeing a cray. I know how to do it, but I always forget which one is which so tend to call every crayfish without eggs a male hahaha
That was a fun day! The video turned out great. Here's hoping we can catch up again soon
Thanks mate. Absolutely wrong will do it again soon.
Loving this mate. That crayfish was a monster.
Awesome video. I will putbthis onnthe UKCA PAGE AND WALL.
cheers bro.
Andy
Thank you so much for your kind words and your AND for the share. I really appreciate your amazing support.
@@robbiefishing you are a legend bro !
What a good guy. A real sportman. Thank you for making the effort to release the throw backs well. Well done.
Thank you so much for watching.
Love the video team i love watching your content always happy and upbeat and you always pick the nicest spots to camp love it keep up the great work
Thanks so much Akmal.
@@robbiefishing your welcome papa
Awesome love the crayfishing videos Robbie top stuff also just a suggestion but you should do a catch and cook crayfish video keep up the great work
Thabks so much mate. I actually do have one on my channel from a couple of years ago.
Mate love the video. I use those nets aswell and I won't be using the old style anymore. So much easier to get crays out
Thanks mate, I agree. AND.... they're so much easier to throw as well.
@@robbiefishing yep. I use them in the goulburn out of the boat and also off the bank.
You're KILLING it on the crays this season Robbie!
Thanks UF. I'm absolutely loving every second of it too.
@@robbiefishing I bet!
Very nice to see that there’s healthy numbers of them. I’ve watched several of your videos and it’s great to see you obey the rules. You’re definitely top class! I’m just fortunate to see these creatures up close because I don’t live there or anywhere nearby.
The only question I have is what do they taste like?! Lobster?
Thanks so much mate. It's hard to describe the taste. They are very good eating like any crustacean. I prefer Yabby meat, but these are still amazing.
I love the video Robbie I wish I could catch some crayfish, you are my hero keep it up
Thank you so much for your kind words Alex
Another Great Video. Love the new nets, may have to get some :)
Thanks Trevor. I got them after my instore appearance at Anaconda recently.
This spring summer, I'll be crayfishing for the first time. Since we don't have huge crabs like you do. I was just going to use an open 2 sided trap that they can't exit once in. Any tips??
Hi mate, I don't really have any tips because I don't know where you are located and what species you are targeting.
I wish they would get that big in the U.S.....Especially about 40 years ago when we were kids we used to catch em and fry em up ....Delicious....Pain to peel and all that but when you're 12 yrs old and hungry with nothing better to do I guess it could've been worse!
Love the video mate! Was in anaconda the other day, was tossing up between the cray v crab nets. By interesting to see how they go in the river
Thanks mate. Its a big win for the crab nets for me. I bought 4 of each, so still have 4 unused white ones here. They still have their place, especially from a boat. But from the bank these crab pots are the bomb!
Nice crays Robbie I thought the legal one would have been over but on perfect good job
Thanks mate. Ibwas worried it would be too
OMG, the size of them. In Louisiana we call those Select.
I wonder if you could use a paint pen or something to mark the shell of the ones you've caught to see if you catch them again in the same trip or soon after.
I like the spiny crays to look at but I think I'd rather catch blueclaw. Not really sure why.
I've thought about that but never gotten around to it. Blueclaw sounds like a lot of fun.
You can estimate population that way, re-capture by effort
That was so cool, lots of yabbies great vid.
Thanks so much Kev. I had a wonderful time.
My Cajun friends would go crazy over crawfish that big
Man, would I love to get some "crayfish" that size in the US. Have an Old Bay freshwater lobster boil!
Man....
The UK even monitors the size of crawdads.....!
I'm so sorry for the afflictions that come with authoritarian rule, my friend!
Any of those crawdads would have been ok to eat here in the States. Out of common sense we let the little ones go, but anything over four inches is perfect.
Sometimes I keep a couple of the little ones to jig with while I wait for my trap to fill up; where I live, it only takes about ten minutes, and the thing is completely full.
Surprisingly I found the best crawdads in a small lake in Arizona! Clean and so sweet, the Goldwater Lake (a little outside of Prescott) Crawdads were the best I ever had.
And there are some Dandies in there too! I had one that was ten inches ( at least) claw to tail.
Brother you need to move here, and then we can show you some fishing holes!!
Thanks so much mate. I would LOVE to head to America again one day. I went there in 2001.
Just FYI, I am from Australia. 👍👍
They are a completely different Family, Genus and Species to your crawdads. These Euastacus crays grow slowly and are very vulnerable to overexploitation. Marron in Western Australia grow faster, but we've got limited habitat for them, are delicious even by freshwater and saltwater crustacean standards, and again, very vulnerable to overexploitation. Basically, if we didn't have strict, scientifically based regulations for them, there wouldn't wouldn't be many left, and certainly very few big ones.
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The next time I get a line in the water, I will give you a lookup!
What a great day out👍
How good is it to see such good numbers on something that was almost fished out of existence.
Good management and good support from fisho’s proves that you can turn things for the better.
Do you think they are small in that area due to the high numbers(?) Like when reddies runt out in dams?
Thanks for sharing
Love your work
Healthy habits
Thanks Moo Moo. I am not 100% sure but that is my thought as well. Quantity more than quality, which I would imagine comes from the fact that the channel is inaccessible for so much of its length.
Shhhh...them freshwater baby lobster, those crayfish are huge
That area is packed with fit cray. I guess I have to wait for lobster season b4 I can chuck rings. ATB Brad
now that's a LOBSTER ..would be a good little feed . But then again , what would it cost in a fine restaurant in Sydney or for that matter in Melbourne . top episode Robbie
Thanks so much Bob. I don't think you would ever find this species in a restaurant. There is no commercial fishery for them and to the best of my knowledge they are not farmed anywhere.
I have no idea why I watched and was about to change channels and you dropped the best one line ever when throwing the guy away see you later Bug Ben lol reminded me of vacation Big Ben parliament
Hahahahahaha Thanks mate. I remember that movie, when they just kept driving around and around in circles stuck in traffic. 😂😂😂 Chevy Chase is the best.
Well done mate that big one was awesome … 😎👍🏼
Thanks so much David.
Wow those are some big crayfishes
Didn't know you did videos with RKJ 🔥
Sure do mate. Rohan and I are very good friends and have fished together in quite a few channels on both his channel and my channel.
The small ones are as big as they get in the Midwest USA. But I hear, If you can pick them up with one finger there are bunches.
I reckon it you picked one of these up with one finger you would lose your finger. LOL
Hi Robbie you always frisby your pots out quite far is this more successful then say 3 to 4 metres
Hi Rexxy, it all depends on the bank mate. If it's a steep bank I like to go close to the edge but often I need to throw it right out to find a decent depth.
G'day Robbie, been watching for a while now! I find your videos so relaxing.
Im planning a little roadtrip down south in search of the mighty Murray Cray before the season closes. Can you recommend a town/river to try out mate? Cheers.
Leaving from the Sunshine Coast
Thanks mate. The Ovens and Goulburn Rivers are both good rivers to crayfish in, but are both flowing very hard at the moment too.
WOW those are pretty big, wondering how big they need to be to keep??? Those tiny ones are the ones we eat here in the US, so funny!!
Thanks mate. Their carapace length (from eye to start if tail) has to be a minimum of 19cm and a maximum of 12cm..Anything bigger or smaller must be returned.
Hi Robbie, entertaining video, love your enthusiasm. Is it permitted to put a kayak in the channel and explore the more inaccessible reaches?
Thanks mate. I can't say for sure, but I doubt that it would be allowed.
Hi Robbie luv the cray catching vids, it must be a healthy water way. Is it legal to use crays for bait.
Thanks Allan. I honestly don't know, but if it is, I doubt that anybody ever would because they would need to be the minimum size before you could keep it and that would be a very big bait haha
Gum trees are so iconic to me ,,I’d be a koala for a week , I think ghost gum tree near a quiet town would be ideal
Haha getting drunk on gumleaves. Ephesians 5:18 Do not get drunk on gumleaves, which leads to debauchery. Instead, be filled with the Spirit.
Love the video Robbie 🤩 keep the coming plz
Love the video mate, you always make quality content.
Thank you so much mate.
Jeremy Wade on River Monsters did an episode on Tasmanian crayfish.
They get insanely large. They make the biggest one here look like a midget dwarf.
They get to 6 kilos, or about 12 pounds, although a 4-6 pounder is considered large nowadays.
They sure are enormous. These crayfish are the second largest freshwater crayfish in the world, second only to the giant Tasmanian freshwater crayfish.
@@robbiefishing , PS, I did enjoy very much watching you catch those crayfish, and they are large. I'd gladly take some the size of these yabbies.
In the US all of them would’ve been considered monsters and that big one would’ve been considered a lobster
When going after carp, have you tried sweet corn or peas for your bait?
Hi Cliff, I have never used peas but I do catch a lot of carp on corn. Have you used peas for bait?
@@robbiefishing no but a fishing friend of mine suggested using peas. It sounded good so I typed it. I usually fish for trout, bass, pike, muskie and perch (I really, REALLY want to go after the perch under the Victoria falls in Africa).
Bro thats got heaps of crays? Yabbies. Good chewin!
Good one well done mate 👍👍👍👍👍
My grandparents used to live near the Dismal swamp on the North Carolina side when we visited them , we could catch crawfish with a twig just put it into the mud mound and when the crustasion try to push it out with it's claws just rip it out of its hole ✔️
That sounds like a lot of fun mate. 👍👍
@@robbiefishing oh yeah 👍
Another great video Robbie
Thanks so much Les. A spot for you to try mate.
@@robbiefishing definitely
How much different from a shrimp or lobster does a crayfish taste? I have never eaten a crayfish.
They're nice, but I much prefer eating yabbies.
#4 is about the size of the largest one I've ever seen in Wisconsin, US. And by that I mean the one I saw was truly freakishly large so I kept it a couple hours until I found another normal sized one to compare it to. They were identical species so I guess the one was just a true freak.
WOE that's awesome. Freaks of nature certainly do exist in many species.
Great show
Thank you so much.
That big one you caught is a small lobster here in the States. Wish we had them here
They certainly are a species of massive crayfish mate.
That must be Australia, because that Cray fish is bigger than any lobster I have ever seen, we get Cray fish in creeks and rivers here in the United States. At least in North Carolina they don’t get larger than the size of your thumb.
Haha sure is Australia mate. Everything here is big and out to get you. LOL 😂
I so wish we could get these to raise over here in the states because damn those are huge
G'day Robbie, could the channel also be full of mussels? Just looking at the hollows in the mud.with water level drop .. good show mate.
Thanks mate. To be honest I would be surprised if they were not in there. I think they can survive in water with less oxygen that crayfish can so if the crays can survive there then surely the mussels can too.
@@robbiefishing thanks cob, good bait, just need a couple of likely lads with a rope round the guts ,, and feel for the mussels by foot 😀
WTF! Your throwing back perfect size dads!
Haha these ones are protected by strict size limits mate. The ones released were either undersize or oversize.
Robbie, I don’t think you’re a professional carcinologist. However, as a successful Murray River Crays hunter, I am wondering if you any idea of what percentage of a large females 22-24K berries survive to maturity? Best regards and keep up your great crayfish and Yabbie hunting videos .
Thanks mate. To be honest I don't know myself. I photographed a tail full of eggs today and shared the photo on Instagram with the same question. I would imagine that it would vary from one waterway to another depending on how many predatory species there were.
I so love watching you.. I would rather be in Ozland than freezing my arse off in Minnesota USA
Haha thank you so much for your kind words Brenda. Our winter is not even really cold where I live. It never snows here, but does in the nearby mountains.
@@robbiefishing How old is Holly? I love her shirts.. I am an old school Rocker Chick.
My Daughter Emelia will. Be 18 in April.
@@brendakoehler3892 Hey Brenda, I too am an old school metalhead. Haha
Holly is 13 turning 14 later this year.
These are stickle back or spiny tail
The Clock... love it. :)
Haha thanks. I've used that joke too many times on my channel. LOL
I would love to have some of them
Wish they were that size over here in my part of the US