Fabulosity video, Mr. Rea, a summer classic. I am stateside in Arizona. 40 plus years ago as a kid my dad would take me and my brother romping through creeks and shallow ponds in the White Mountains of northern Arizona. We netted or speared / forked buckets of the native crawdads for a boil and picking feast. So simple, free, and delicious. Crack on, mate!
I'm from Sweden and we absolutely love the crayfish! -As you may very well know... And with some Aioli, crispbread or a baguette, a really good beer, and not to forget the "nubbe" (spiced vodka) and the "nubbevisa" (special songs sung between bites of food)... Ooh la la!
This brings back great memories when I visited my cousin in Michigan in 1981. We canoed down a river towards a lake but before we got there we stopped at a small creek (American for stream) to go crayfish hunting. But her method was different to yours. We just stood in the stream wiggling our white toes and very quickly the crayfish just kept coming. We just picked them off our toes or (better still) before they got there. In about 20 mins we had enough for a decent starter for our evening meal. Great video, happy memories.
Hello Mr Rea, From New Mexico, "USA" . Took my granddaughter last spring and she loved them , all she wanted to eat for 2days..Thank u for keeping it old school .. GOD Bless u
What beautiful stream. I see no bait containers or other trash. Unfortunately, where I live, a stream so pristine is rare. Love your videos - thanks Scott!
Scott! Great vid, as always. Those mud buggers looked delicious. Can't wait for the recipe video. Keep up the awesome content, dear Sir! Cheers from the States.
Fine if they are the native ones. Less so the American signal crayfish, which are a real eco-problem. Still, they are worth eating. Anything that removes them is good.
@@serenityinside1 Bein' a Yank, we all know tea belongs in the bay. LOL. Just a little fun from across the pond. Holy crap it's the day before The 4th. LOL Not gonna lie I have a box of Yorkshire Tea in my pantry. It makes the BEST Southern Style Sweet Iced Tea I have ever had in my life. Seriously. It beats Arizona sweet tea by a...oh what do you call miles over there...beats it by a kilometer. LOL. English Breakfast Tea, I guess it's just "breakfast tea" for you, is a great alt for coffee. That shit wakes you up and you don't crash in three hours like coffee.
Almazan now seem to be more about videography than the food, I hope Scott never goes down that route, there's only so many times glistening juices running down a burger is interesting.
Noice! Me and the wife are ordering our UK legal traps, same style as yours, and dragging the boys out crayfish hunting. Nom nom!!! Thanks for sharing.
Great video. I think this is the 2nd or 3rd cray video I've seen since I've been following you. (Probably more than a decade) Excellent camera work, beautiful scenes.
As The Master; Mr. Keith Floyd, would've said...."What a jolly little time we had down at the Brook!....Catching all sorts of wonderous things to eat! And, none more so wonderful, than the humble Crayfish!" Well, that's how I imagine it would go and that's what I have in my ears when I pull my Crayfish Traps , from the Brook, from the Lake and from the River. Oh! How I would've adored a TV skit with Sir Floyd and Sir Lemmy; Possibly curated by Sir Everett.
😂🤣 Behavioural ‘omnivores’, is a heart attack and cancer and high blood pressure, fat deposits clog the arteries everywhere, Limp👇🧟♂️🦠🍖🔴Diiick eating Cooorpses 🛏💔🤷♀️🤦♀️ .. ua-cam.com/video/KK7vFRcB8lk/v-deo.html .. ua-cam.com/video/XmXynDLkbXY/v-deo.html 😂🤣😂😂. Over a frigging 5 minute burger or chicken etc. CuItfoIIowing !!!! MeatfIake !! Caveman !!! 🙄 TimeIapse pig carcasses. 6-10 days in your stomach putrefying 🤮. Deodorant mask the symptoms but you still smell bad in your feet and shoes and socks 🔴🍖🦠🧟♂️🥾🦶🧦, 🧟♂️💩🚽🤮🤮🤮 🤮. No Fibre. PH 4, hard arteries. ua-cam.com/video/VvSZTmWRvXY/v-deo.html Vegans they don’t smell, because lots of fibre if you eat plants and fruit and nuts and berries and tubers and lentils beans and potatoes etc. Lots of fibre !! PH 7-10. Smooth arteries. Toilet ✅❤️💩🚽😉neutral. And you get bigger and stronger and fitter when you go plant based. No fat deposits because fat deposits is animals and cheese and fish etc.
Hello Scott, long time, no see! Hope you've been keeping well! Glad to see you're keeping an invasive population down and enjoying them too- if I were to fish for them, I'd have to let them go to waste, because I don't like to eat them.
you need some cajun crawfish boil spices to add to that water buddy! do it southern style and add in some whole garlic, taters and some cob corn in the boil as well. HEAVEN!
Something to try, ..... here in Australia we call them Yabbies, the cooking liqueur should be a mixture of salt and water and should be as salty as you would imagine sea water should taste. Try it once and you will be blown away at the improvement in flavour.
Glad to see that I'm not the only one who takes the time to eat the claw meat. Alot of people just suck the head juice and throw the upper body out and eat the tail. I always think you're wasting good eats there. Cheers from Pennsylvania U.S.A
Great stuff Scott, wish I could find somewhere that had them, but up on the pennines the buggers can't climb that high, do ok for small brown trout though 😀😀, and rabbits and squirrels, but a change is good, and free food even better. Great job Scott, 👍👍👍❤🐧, Don't do the penguin 😂😂😂
Just caught your channel , and subscribed what a enjoyable thing to do on a hot morning catching crayfish , the predictions changed it to crabs 🦀, not the thing to catch on a English riverside on a hot summer morning , it’s the embarrassment of asking what do you use in a chemist miles away from your home.
Here in western North Carolina we have large green crawfish. I've not seen the black ones. Chicken wings here are 9 bucks a pound. We use a can of cheap tuna, punch holes in the can and the crawfish love it. Great video brother, now catch some sea fish and prepare.
Hi, American here. Look for a spice powder called Old Bay (Amazon UK has it), and add some to the boiling water. They are also amazing when you add the cleaned meat to a butter, white wine, green pepper sauce over corn grits. That's some fine eating right there.
I tried Old Bay. Didn't like it. I think it is one of those things that you have to grow up with in order to think it is essential. I put it up there with Asian Sriracha which the kids love, but which leaves me cold. But I'm a huge fan of Franks sauce. I think I prefer the Scandinavian way of preparing these, with lots of fresh Dill.
Living where the signal craws are native, I can only wish they were as easy to catch here as they are there. I’ve caught and eaten countless Dungeness and red rock crabs, I’ve had several species of lobster, but the lowly crawdad is still my favorite water dweller.
Hi Scott, I put in for some pot licences for where i live which is in West Yorkshire, and have been told in reply that it is illegal to trap for them anywhere in Yorkshire, Its against county laws here, and we still have to many native cray fish in the rivers here, so the EA won't issue them. I really miss catching and eating them, the best free food you can get.
@Vin Delanos That was my thinking, but it shows, the more you trap them, the more they come back, and people don't bother taking the native ones out, and put them back, so we lose the native ones faster.
@Vin Delanos I know it’s mind bending why we can’t catch and eat a invasive species that are responsible for killing off our native crayfish? Some laws just don’t make sense. You’d the British waterways authority would encourage people to catch and eat them!?
It's because they don't want anyone getting a free feed,,, with excuses like people would move them to other areas or eat native crays ,,, you know the type they think we aren't capable of thinking for ourselves,, id just go and do it if I was you ,, they have no right to take a man's natural abilities away from him ,, .
I think the EA are worried people may take the wrong species. Haven’t seen a native crayfish in 40 years, I live down south. All the rivers are full of signals.
The same story as you tells was in Sweden too. No more Floodcray's in ouer watherways, lakes and rivers! Some one tryed to inplantat the new ones. And was moving boats beween without desinfect them, tragiskt! 🦂,🕊🇸🇪
I'm getting to recognize this stretch of this stream. I have fished them in NY, Il. and NJ. I have never seen them as big as this. The Australian Murry River are, by US standards, Godzillas
Subbed and notifications on, but first time I've seen anything in ages! UA-cam algorithms keep stuffing things up. Was that a Merlin I heard in the background?
Great vidio thankyou iv often wanted to do this do I need a licence as the you gov thing just confuses me obviously I'd not harm natives species but me trying to work our wether I need a licence or not is baffling me tia
the other line of thought is they are so installed in our rivers now you will never eradicate them and because there are a plentiful supply of them, it's bringing otters back to areas that haven't seen them in a long while! that said i enjoy nothing more than catching some down by the river and eating al fresco! 😊
Thanks for this excellent production. Used to net these in the river Darent (North Kent ) in the late sixites. I'm guessing they must have been the, so called , native variety. There used to be gudgeon and sticklebacks and minnow further downstream, together with chub, pike and perch. Now there's just chub - in a greatly depleted and overgrown river. I have heard many stories of rampaging catfish (just the one), American crayfish and the mitten crab ; supposedly responsible for the disappearance of these critters . I guess that's Globalism for you.
Love the vid but honestly especially in UK personal u won't catch me doing it like that in raw sewage uk waters unless we purge until waters clean then cook & eat.
In my world, the "order of the day" is hot tea and bourbon. In my youth(100 years ago) crayfish were for bass bait. I got them by scraping a wood and screen device over the mud in a "cow Pond." The cows pee and poop in the pond. Crayfish were not something you wanted to eat.
Love to eat these little fellas, but I can't gety a license from the EA where I live (leicestershire) because there's some pockets of local whiteclawed crays here and there. Interesting that you grab the poop chute and boil on the bank - I was told to purge them for a couple of days in a bucket of freshwater - I guess this achieves a similar result?
Fabulosity video, Mr. Rea, a summer classic. I am stateside in Arizona. 40 plus years ago as a kid my dad would take me and my brother romping through creeks and shallow ponds in the White Mountains of northern Arizona. We netted or speared / forked buckets of the native crawdads for a boil and picking feast. So simple, free, and delicious. Crack on, mate!
Cup of tea and a cigarello he said, how swarv. This was a good one I'm gonna smash the like button for keeping it real.
I'm from Sweden and we absolutely love the crayfish! -As you may very well know... And with some Aioli, crispbread or a baguette, a really good beer, and not to forget the "nubbe" (spiced vodka) and the "nubbevisa" (special songs sung between bites of food)... Ooh la la!
I love European drink and food culture
This brings back great memories when I visited my cousin in Michigan in 1981. We canoed down a river towards a lake but before we got there we stopped at a small creek (American for stream) to go crayfish hunting. But her method was different to yours. We just stood in the stream wiggling our white toes and very quickly the crayfish just kept coming. We just picked them off our toes or (better still) before they got there. In about 20 mins we had enough for a decent starter for our evening meal. Great video, happy memories.
Hello Mr Rea, From New Mexico, "USA" . Took my granddaughter last spring and she loved them , all she wanted to eat for 2days..Thank u for keeping it old school .. GOD Bless u
What beautiful stream. I see no bait containers or other trash. Unfortunately, where I live, a stream so pristine is rare. Love your videos - thanks Scott!
Welcome back! Love your videos, so inspiring.
I had a couple of crayfish as pets when I was a kid. I named them Ronnie and Reggie.
Been waiting fir some bright spark to do that .. 😃
Was one of them a nonce!😂
I'm sitting in the Saudi desert thinking "where did I go wrong in my life?" Leaving Herefordshire , I think... Love the videos Scott!
Scott! Great vid, as always. Those mud buggers looked delicious. Can't wait for the recipe video. Keep up the awesome content, dear Sir! Cheers from the States.
Its amazing how many of them there are. On a recent trip to Loch ken , almost every single rock I looked under had crayfish under.
Fine if they are the native ones. Less so the American signal crayfish, which are a real eco-problem. Still, they are worth eating. Anything that removes them is good.
Good sized mud bug. I love a good crayfish boil here in the US.
7:53... it's time for a brew. Being a Canadian I thought you meant beer, not tea.
English... 🇫🇴- surely you know our reputation for tea drinking?!!!
Canada is clearly a nation of dedicated alcoholics. Mind how you go.
@@serenityinside1 Bein' a Yank, we all know tea belongs in the bay. LOL. Just a little fun from across the pond. Holy crap it's the day before The 4th. LOL
Not gonna lie I have a box of Yorkshire Tea in my pantry. It makes the BEST Southern Style Sweet Iced Tea I have ever had in my life. Seriously. It beats Arizona sweet tea by a...oh what do you call miles over there...beats it by a kilometer. LOL. English Breakfast Tea, I guess it's just "breakfast tea" for you, is a great alt for coffee. That shit wakes you up and you don't crash in three hours like coffee.
Loving the Almazan feel to this video Scott.
Almazan now seem to be more about videography than the food, I hope Scott never goes down that route, there's only so many times glistening juices running down a burger is interesting.
Noice!
Me and the wife are ordering our UK legal traps, same style as yours, and dragging the boys out crayfish hunting.
Nom nom!!!
Thanks for sharing.
Great video. I think this is the 2nd or 3rd cray video I've seen since I've been following you. (Probably more than a decade) Excellent camera work, beautiful scenes.
mate that was brilliant , brilliant video , thanks for the info & showing all the prep thru to eating it.👍🙂
You're a class act Scott, bangers tea, SOD IT I want to go Crawdad hunting with you mate
As The Master; Mr. Keith Floyd, would've said...."What a jolly little time we had down at the Brook!....Catching all sorts of wonderous things to eat! And, none more so wonderful, than the humble Crayfish!"
Well, that's how I imagine it would go and that's what I have in my ears when I pull my Crayfish Traps , from the Brook, from the Lake and from the River.
Oh! How I would've adored a TV skit with Sir Floyd and Sir Lemmy; Possibly curated by Sir Everett.
For an invasive species of shellfish, that does look really good, the way you prepared the crayfish. Cheers, Scott! ✌️
😂🤣 Behavioural ‘omnivores’, is a heart attack and cancer and high blood pressure, fat deposits clog the arteries everywhere, Limp👇🧟♂️🦠🍖🔴Diiick eating Cooorpses 🛏💔🤷♀️🤦♀️ .. ua-cam.com/video/KK7vFRcB8lk/v-deo.html .. ua-cam.com/video/XmXynDLkbXY/v-deo.html 😂🤣😂😂. Over a frigging 5 minute burger or chicken etc. CuItfoIIowing !!!! MeatfIake !! Caveman !!! 🙄
TimeIapse pig carcasses. 6-10 days in your stomach putrefying 🤮. Deodorant mask the symptoms but you still smell bad in your feet and shoes and socks 🔴🍖🦠🧟♂️🥾🦶🧦, 🧟♂️💩🚽🤮🤮🤮 🤮. No Fibre. PH 4, hard arteries. ua-cam.com/video/VvSZTmWRvXY/v-deo.html
Vegans they don’t smell, because lots of fibre if you eat plants and fruit and nuts and berries and tubers and lentils beans and potatoes etc. Lots of fibre !! PH 7-10. Smooth arteries. Toilet ✅❤️💩🚽😉neutral. And you get bigger and stronger and fitter when you go plant based. No fat deposits because fat deposits is animals and cheese and fish etc.
Hello Scott, long time, no see! Hope you've been keeping well! Glad to see you're keeping an invasive population down and enjoying them too- if I were to fish for them, I'd have to let them go to waste, because I don't like to eat them.
Hurray!!! A new video! Thank you Scott!
When I was a kid in Puerto Rico in the 70's, we would go down to the local river and just scoop them up and boil them and eat them.
you need some cajun crawfish boil spices to add to that water buddy! do it southern style and add in some whole garlic, taters and some cob corn in the boil as well. HEAVEN!
Something to try, ..... here in Australia we call them Yabbies, the cooking liqueur should be a mixture of salt and water and should be as salty as you would imagine sea water should taste. Try it once and you will be blown away at the improvement in flavour.
Yes I had them last time I was in Australia. My cousins neighbour caught a load boiled them up cooked them and they were delicious😋
Crayfish are delicious 🤘😋🤘
Another awesome video, Scott. Nice work!
Glad to see that I'm not the only one who takes the time to eat the claw meat. Alot of people just suck the head juice and throw the upper body out and eat the tail. I always think you're wasting good eats there. Cheers from Pennsylvania U.S.A
Everything looks so pure!!!
Love the video I love eating crayfish. Can't wait to see more
Loving this video. Doing the river a favour, snagging dinner at the same time. I would love to make Surf and Turf with them!
Glad to see you back! Here in the Netherlands these crayfish have invaded too especially in the 'polders' !
I don't eat any shellfish, but love your crayfish videos, beautiful filming, thanks Scott
Great stuff Scott, wish I could find somewhere that had them, but up on the pennines the buggers can't climb that high, do ok for small brown trout though 😀😀, and rabbits and squirrels, but a change is good, and free food even better.
Great job Scott, 👍👍👍❤🐧,
Don't do the penguin 😂😂😂
Brilliant video thanks for sharing. Ive just set a pot today up in scotland. Hopefully get some critters later
If more people knew how delicious they are they wouldn’t be a problem, they’d be dinner! The carapace makes an awesome stock too.
Cheers from South Louisiana
Just caught your channel , and subscribed what a enjoyable thing to do on a hot morning catching crayfish , the predictions changed it to crabs 🦀, not the thing to catch on a English riverside on a hot summer morning , it’s the embarrassment of asking what do you use in a chemist miles away from your home.
With great envy my arthritic hips and fallen arches want so much to go trekking thru those streams for crayfish. Multi-tool for cracking the claws.
Dang Scott!!!...Those mudbugs are looking mighty tasty!
Scotty went straight Louisanna. Couldn't hide that deep south in ya!🤠
great vid! love to see a beautiful clear stream
Here in western North Carolina we have large green crawfish. I've not seen the black ones. Chicken wings here are 9 bucks a pound. We use a can of cheap tuna, punch holes in the can and the crawfish love it. Great video brother, now catch some sea fish and prepare.
He only gone and treated himself to a drone !! Yessss woo hoo great views
Winner winner chicken crayfish dinner
Hi, American here. Look for a spice powder called Old Bay (Amazon UK has it), and add some to the boiling water. They are also amazing when you add the cleaned meat to a butter, white wine, green pepper sauce over corn grits. That's some fine eating right there.
I tried Old Bay. Didn't like it. I think it is one of those things that you have to grow up with in order to think it is essential. I put it up there with Asian Sriracha which the kids love, but which leaves me cold. But I'm a huge fan of Franks sauce.
I think I prefer the Scandinavian way of preparing these, with lots of fresh Dill.
Living where the signal craws are native, I can only wish they were as easy to catch here as they are there. I’ve caught and eaten countless Dungeness and red rock crabs, I’ve had several species of lobster, but the lowly crawdad is still my favorite water dweller.
Chesapeake Bay blue crabs steamed Maryland style with heavy spices are the way to go.
Hi Scott, I put in for some pot licences for where i live which is in West Yorkshire, and have been told in reply that it is illegal to trap for them anywhere in Yorkshire, Its against county laws here, and we still have to many native cray fish in the rivers here, so the EA won't issue them. I really miss catching and eating them, the best free food you can get.
@Vin Delanos That was my thinking, but it shows, the more you trap them, the more they come back, and people don't bother taking the native ones out, and put them back, so we lose the native ones faster.
@Vin Delanos I know it’s mind bending why we can’t catch and eat a invasive species that are responsible for killing off our native crayfish? Some laws just don’t make sense. You’d the British waterways authority would encourage people to catch and eat them!?
It's because they don't want anyone getting a free feed,,, with excuses like people would move them to other areas or eat native crays ,,, you know the type they think we aren't capable of thinking for ourselves,, id just go and do it if I was you ,, they have no right to take a man's natural abilities away from him ,, .
I think the EA are worried people may take the wrong species. Haven’t seen a native crayfish in 40 years, I live down south. All the rivers are full of signals.
Apply again. Red claw have just been announced as a problem in yorkshire.
The same story as you tells was in Sweden too. No more Floodcray's in ouer watherways, lakes and rivers! Some one tryed to inplantat the new ones. And was moving boats beween without desinfect them, tragiskt! 🦂,🕊🇸🇪
Where did thee get thee traps? Bdid they have environment agency signs on? My house is 3 meters from the shallow part of the Avon. I need to try this.
Thanks you for your video it was amazing
Entertaining as always and of course I am bloody hungry now 😂
Good to see you Scott!
My friend has just dropped me some crayfish off so your vid couldn't have come at a better time! 👍
Looks like a good location. Do you know what is upstream ? Outlets and from who ?
Looks yummy. Hope to see the next recipe with them. Thanks
Chicken liver attracts them too, but it tends to fall apart in the water. Chicken gizzards is my go-to bait for crustaceans in the US.
I'm getting to recognize this stretch of this stream. I have fished them in NY, Il. and NJ. I have never seen them as big as this. The Australian Murry River are, by US standards, Godzillas
Well, now I'm going to head off looking for cray fish 😂 looks good man.
It was like you were taking us with you. Many thanks.
Lovely setting. Thanks. What county is this in UK.
Subbed and notifications on, but first time I've seen anything in ages! UA-cam algorithms keep stuffing things up. Was that a Merlin I heard in the background?
That stream is a lovely spot
I've been catching them and using them to catch catfish. Although mud bugs, prongs, crawfish, crayfish or whatever people call them are good to eat.
These are similar to the Australiany yabbie , magnificent eating
Arise Sir Scotty, fantastic 🇬🇧👍🏻
Hi ,new to your cannel, very interesting,can you catch them in any freshwater? thanks, William
Great vidio thankyou iv often wanted to do this do I need a licence as the you gov thing just confuses me obviously I'd not harm natives species but me trying to work our wether I need a licence or not is baffling me tia
Not bad Scott. Now you need several more pounds of them, potatoes, corn... eat'em every year!
I’m from the South Mississippi Louisiana border and they are a staple here. Can’t wait to see what you do with em.
Great video
Fab video Scott
We boil lobster in clean sea water. Do you salt the water before boiling the crays?
hii, love ur vids, what river is this?
Scotty you’re a legend
Amazing m8 Subbed!
the other line of thought is they are so installed in our rivers now you will never eradicate them and because there are a plentiful supply of them, it's bringing otters back to areas that haven't seen them in a long while! that said i enjoy nothing more than catching some down by the river and eating al fresco! 😊
I used to use silicon tipped tongs to pick the crayfish up from the bucket.
Can I ask how long do you boil for, they look delicious thank you 💕🦆
How long did you boil it for?
Thanks for this excellent production. Used to net these in the river Darent (North Kent ) in the late sixites. I'm guessing they must have been the, so called , native variety. There used to be gudgeon and sticklebacks and minnow further downstream, together with chub, pike and perch. Now there's just chub - in a greatly depleted and overgrown river. I have heard many stories of rampaging catfish (just the one), American crayfish and the mitten crab ; supposedly responsible for the disappearance of these critters . I guess that's Globalism for you.
Awesome stuff mate, I need to find some of them 😂👍👍
Great vid mate what part of England are you in? 👍🏻
Now that we can't afford the meat or the gas to cook it on its good to see Scott branch out to the more affordable eating of pests
Looks like a perfect mental health day, mate 😎
That is good fish bait sir. It is also a delicacy to some. But in my book they are just another animal in a pond or a fish tank
Cracking Video
But could you not extract the poop sack after cooking?
superb video ---can you commercially catch em n sell em
He's back sonny jim.
Outstanding.
Love the vid but honestly especially in UK personal u won't catch me doing it like that in raw sewage uk waters unless we purge until waters clean then cook & eat.
I’ve never seen anyone boil only one crawfish. 🤣 being from south Louisiana we boil 50-80lbs at a time.
No seasoning in the water? Just curious.
We call them crawdads here in Texas. They're delicious but you have to eat about 2,500 of them to get a meal.
Scott where have you gone man your national treasure hope all is well.
In my world, the "order of the day" is hot tea and bourbon. In my youth(100 years ago) crayfish were for bass bait. I got them by scraping a wood and screen device over the mud in a "cow Pond." The cows pee and poop in the pond. Crayfish were not something you wanted to eat.
Love to eat these little fellas, but I can't gety a license from the EA where I live (leicestershire) because there's some pockets of local whiteclawed crays here and there. Interesting that you grab the poop chute and boil on the bank - I was told to purge them for a couple of days in a bucket of freshwater - I guess this achieves a similar result?
Do you use BBQ, Chinese or Hot wings?
Wow
brilliant bro