yeah ive seen it done but never tried it ... but when i worked on the stations up north i learned to do the same to a sheep ... works a treat till you try to move the stupid animal :)

hehe....same thing with crabs....when you wake them they go off...

you just rub there bellys dont ya?

Yes.

Have been doing this for years..... Drop them in a boiling pot of water.

hehe  good one david...goodluck trying to rub their bellies......use a crab measurer or something similar and move it up and down between their eyes and they just freeze.

Ill have to try that with a big muddy....

Can hyptnotize chicken easily enough..... tuck their head under a wing and move them in a circle motion a couple times and they freeze...

Or there too dizzy to move... haha

don't know if it works on muddies Marky.......let me know how many fingers you have left if it doesn't work lol...

it works on Koonacks and yabbies.  we used to do it when we were kids.  you just rub your finger from the top to the tail along its back quickly for about a minute.  It somehow temporarily paralises them.

hold them down on the ground then draw a line in front of them and they will stay there for ever.  Grandfather used to go straight to the chook house when we girls left, used to get told off time and time again, but sister and I still did it.

some memories there Roberta.....my dad used to do the same thing...something about chooks lol

yeah you get the same effect if you balance the crabs on their heads with the claws facing out good fun making a big line of crabs along the beach and waiting for someone to walk past and knock one over haha

If you get a small shark just hold it belly up for a while and the same thing happens.Used to do it when we had to tag and release them

some interesting comments there guys......Carnarvonite do you still have all your fingers and limbs from doing that with sharks....lol

Yep,still got all the fiddly bits.Used to poke a bit of wood about 4-5 inches in diameter in to the sharks mouth so we could pull the hooks out safely then measure,tag and inject them with a dye,twist the wood out of its mouth and release them.The dye shows up like the growth rings on a tree so if you catch a sand bar whaler [thickskin]with a fisheries tag in it don't chuck it back.Cut a 4-6 inch section on spine and freeze it,notify Fisheries shark research dept at Hillarys and they will tell you where to send it and they will give you a T shirt for your trouble.
They cut the spine into thin slices to inspect under a microscope where the green dye had been injected show upgiving them a good estimate of its growth rates since capture

interesting info there carnarvonite...i will keep that in mind.......is it only for the sandbar whalers and if so what main area?

While fishing up north we had shark research blokes on a few times tagging them from Exmouth as far east as 120 deg east--about half way between Broome and Hedland and down south from Windy harbour up to around Binningup.At different times they come on board all of the shark boats to get a good coverage of the whole of sand bar whalers habitat

now that would have been interesting work...are you still involved in that sort of research now?

Premature retirement,back is knackered.
Was skipper of a shark boats using both demersal nets down south and a long/drop line set up in the north