Crayfish as bait
Submitted by Craig J on Thu, 2015-03-05 13:18
Long story but the freezer door was left open for two days and all my crays defrosted and are now not to be eaten.
I am going to munch them up for berley but has anyone used them successfully as bait ?
Take the shell off and use the tail meat maybe.
Auslobster
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Be very careful...
...crays can't be "processed" until just before cooking/consumption. Technically, the only legal way of using them for bait would be whole...and keep the berley thing quiet, too.
There used to be a company that produced lobster-based berley, not sure if they still exist. But I'm guessing that they would have had permits/authorisation to do so.
Craig J
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Bugger me, there you go
you are right, I never thought of that.
your living life on the edge when it comes to Crays !
trymyluck
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But Ive heard they make great
But Ive heard they make great bait for whiting ;)
Paul_86
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Never tried cray meat for
Never tried cray meat for bait, but I keep the left over heads and smash them up in my burley pot and it's dynamite as burley!
I reckon a whole just size cray as bait would be snapped up pretty quick if there is any big dhuies in the area!
cell
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dollys love it
I used a strip of it along time ago on the cray boat out deep and the dollies cant resist a fresh strip of tail mind u only tried once
GIVE ME A FISHING ROD.....WELL THE REST IS HISTORY
tassy
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They are great for occys. As
They are great for occys. As they are an occys main food
Five bream an counting
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One jetty.
Piggy
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Baldies!!
baldies love cray legs!!
I go boating not fishing
strike_zone
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Kgs
King George whiting love crayfish i had to sacrifice one once when we left the bait at home a fair trade i thought
anypuddle
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cray
Caught a 10kg dhuie once still with a kakka in its mouth, said to my mate "watch this I will get a baldie in 2 mins" put the cray on whole on a gang of 5/0 hooks ... 2 mins later nice baldie.
Anywhere anytime
Travisd
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Introduction of disease???
I'd think twice about that. Rotten crays mushed up cant be that good for the ecosystem. Correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't that pilchard disease in Sa attributed to festering uneated pilchards on the Tuna farms
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sea-kem
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Stand corrected but that was
Stand corrected but that was attributed to a virus not bacteria. I always munch up the shells and heads makes a mint burley base.
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petermac
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i have used
I have used painted crays for blue bone bait up north works good (they are only good for bait imop)
sunshine
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Caught plenty of dhuies
on freezer burnt and buggered crays before the vacuum packer ......never considered it processing
paulbazza
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herring
i have used the meat from inside the head as bait, the herring went mad on it!
out wide
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Had one down the other day
Caught bugger all so took it home for the pot. Mined you it was only for 10 minutes or so.
timboon
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Travisd... This is bloody
Travisd...
This is bloody amazing...
Strike a light, so munching up a few crays could be attributed to SARS or HIV ocean styles??
I just would have thought that when shit happens like a 3000000000000 squillion tonne whale washes up and rotts its ass off on the beach oozing sench and ass into the sea then thats just nature taking care of business...
I didnt realise the devestation that could be caused by ol Craig smashing a few kg's of crays and feeding fish with them..... FFS seriously....
Munch the fuckers up Craig, epic bait/burley...
Stays on the hook well, just kinda swirl your finger around and weave it on... Not much doesnt eat cray
Should you be so unlucky to encounter a Fish pig and they question you, quickly ram it in his/hers ass and use the "what mudcrab" Morton styles excuse
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Ha ha good 1 timboon
Ha ha good 1 timboon
burnz
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Cray tails good bait as said
Cray tails good bait as said above Dhu and Baldys love em
Even nor west blowys are good bait lol
ranmar850
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The pilchard virus
The Pilchard virus was attributed to the frozen Californian pilchard being imported as tuna food for the Port Lincoln tuna farms. The epidemic started in that area and spread west from there. It was known in the Californian stocks, previously not detected here, so our local mulies had no immunity to it. Hopefully, those that survived and bred will now have some immunity, so we shouldn't see such a mass wipeout again. It caused quite a stir even within crayfishing at the time, as it raised big biosecurity issues around imported bait of any kind, and we were buying a bit.
Edit--just saw the last post, and nw blowies are excellent bait, IMO. Tangles would remember that, I still use them if that is the fishing method on the day.