Quick Yabbie Sesh
Submitted by jayce on Fri, 2013-08-02 08:08
After seeing all the talk about yabbies in ponds and people not knowing where to find them i thought i would throw up my 10 minutes work from saturday arvo.
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cell
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yabbie much
Nice haul there any tips on where to find that much. Or wanna catch me some, some of my best bream came from live yabbs
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jayce
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Sorry mate if they are small
Sorry mate if they are small enough for a hook then they go back in the dam to get bigger. I wouldnt waste quality yabbies to catch bream.
Your best bet to find that many is to head out to some farms door knockking and ask if you can put a few nets in there dams.
Just watch how many you take. You might get Inspector tim-o chsing you.
tim-o
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Not a good idea posting over
Not a good idea posting over extremities of bag limits on a public forum. If you look back on the recent yabbie thread, it is mentioned about the bag limit of 10 per person per day that is in the current rec fish guide
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woody
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That's crap
That's crap tim-o............try telling that to farmers with 30 dams on their property......catch as many as you need for a feed I reckon. 10 wouldn't go very far at all!!
jayce
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Wouldnt be a fishwrecked post
Wouldnt be a fishwrecked post with out you putting your unwanted crap comments in Tim-o.
Caught and consumed on the propertyout of dams that i farm and manage stocks in. I would like to see someone come in there and tell me what i can and cant take out of there.
Same as the marron that i take all year round out of the dams on the property. Not a thing they can do about it.
Also caught thm with a drag net. Makes it a easy 10 minutes work for a good feed.
derko5000
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bahahahahaha thats piss funny
bahahahahaha thats piss funny
crasny1
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Im with everyone
Exept Tim-O. I have never heard off a bad limit for Yabbies, and also if on your own property you have no limit for marron or yabbies, other than if they are caught in a stream running through the property, when they are considered public waters to the 100yr flood line. Then Marron rules do apply (I dont know off this yabbie rule).
Can someone enlighten me if I am incorrect, but as far as I was aware yabbies are feral to WA and compete with wild koonacs/Marron/Gilgies etc, so they are a pest.
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pale ale
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jayce
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Bet there was some beer
Bet there was some beer consumed with that lot.
petermac
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crickey mate
hope that little girl wasn't getting into the pool
3315B
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Bloody hell
Sorry, tim-o that I brought that piss pour bag limit up.
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tim-o
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Ok, sorry mate, you didnt say
Ok, sorry mate, you didnt say caught on private dam, fair to say with what you wrote I presumed you caught them at a local pond given the recent discussions as you said. I reckon its crap too, but read the current fisheries reg, ofcourse doesnt apply to private property without water running through. I couldnt give a fuck what people do, I break laws every day, was just advising incase you may have incriminated yourself. Chill out haters haha
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trymyluck
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wow nice photo Pale
wow nice photo Pale Ale...Now, do apple have an app for getting GPS co_ords from a photo !! ... I badly need a hunting and gathering session like that !!
pale ale
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It is in my brother's front
It is in my brother's front yard in the Barossa Valley. Very satisfying poaching yabbs from big company premises
choc
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If you look at the fisheries
If you look at the fisheries website the bag limit of ten applies to gilgies not yabbies.
In the Aquatic invaders ID Guide put out by fisheries it says that if you catch a yabbie keep it, do not put it back as they can carry disease that kills other freshwater crustaceans. There are no bag or size limits.
tim-o
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Other species not
Other species not specifically mentioned (combined)
http://www.fish.wa.gov.au/Fishing-and-Aquaculture/Recreational-Fishing/Recreational-Fishing-Rules/Bag_And_Size_Limits/Pages/Crustaceans.aspx
Can everyone tell the difference between yabbies, gilgies and koonaks?
http://www.google.com.au/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCwQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.fish.wa.gov.au%2FDocuments%2Frecreational_fishing%2Ffact_sheets%2Ffact_sheet_freshwater_crayfish.pdf&ei=4D_7UYW0DIHxkAXz7IG4Cw&usg=AFQjCNEo5zyt2BjWKqa2mYB47M8Q7NELsg
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jayce
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Yep i caught yabbies. And
Yep i caught yabbies. And that little artical about yabbies that you posted contradicts your bag limit anyway as it says do not release them back into the water.
tim-o
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From back in 2011 tho. I will
From back in 2011 tho. I will be ringing fisheries to clarify before my next family yab hunt, not that theres much chance of being busted by fisheries in suburbia, unless someone dobs ya in
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NOHA
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From January 2012
http://www.fish.wa.gov.au/Documents/biosecurity/introduced-pests-guide-freshwater.pdf
Fisheries has too many publications designed to confuse the public.
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tim-o
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Yep, I got a call back from
Yep, I got a call back from fisheries suggesting the new guide does suggest yabbies are part of the 10pp bag limit, but confirmed they arent as they are considered feral, and will make this obvious in the new guide. Same as having max amount of fish in possession in kg but there are some fish that you catch that are within the legal size limitations, yet you can be over the max allowable kgs of fillets with that one legal fish. Throw some of the fillets out? they do confuse us, as well as themselves sometimes
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little johnny
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great feed jayce
love the yabbies ,timo -o funny as ,
,could be some jealousy i think 
jayce
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Cheers mate. Thats a decent
Cheers mate.
Thats a decent little boar in your profile pic. Get him out the hills?
little johnny
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wandering
where i get yabbies from. 98 kilo ranga good set off hooks on him to,great eating
well done once again. got to havest dams or they stay small (yabbies) .over population,
jayce
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98kg unlucky just short of
98kg unlucky just short of the tonne. Good pig though.
Yeah i agree gotta keep the levels right or they dont grow. bucket of feed every now and then helps them out.
Versus
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yo 2 questions for jayce, are
yo 2 questions for jayce, are they yabbies (as in not gilgies etc)? and if so why would u stock them over marron (if you were the one to stock them)?
not tryna be a smartass btw
jayce
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Yeah mate they are
Yeah mate they are yabbies.
The yabbies take to our dam water better than marron do. We still get the odd dam the has the right water for marron but not many out my way.
Also yabbies will bury into the mud in summer when the dam dries up and stay there till the water fills up again. Marron will walk out in search of more water.
Versus
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ahh ok. Haha I remember when
ahh ok. Haha I remember when my older bro put some marron in our backyard pond. Found two (of 3) walking across the lawn the next morning, put them back in. This happened a couple times, eventually one died or was killed and the other disappeared, and the remaining one was declared king of the pond!
troopie87
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go to any man made pond in
go to any man made pond in any newish estate and you will get a feed of yabbies.
petermac
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yabbies are they???
are they yabbies'(the first pic) they look like what I call koonacks and as far as I know they are an introduced species and considered vermin (but make yummy sandwiches)the second pic is what I call yabbies' and also make good sangas
little johnny
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petermac
koonacs grow huge like marron.and have spur on both arms (forearm).can be any colour .there joints are always blood red.very hard to find now days,but yes vermin.ones in pond look like gilgies to me unsure..all the same they taste great'
all local ponds around rocko are full off yabbies.)keeps the ponds clear.i let heaps of big marron go in my local one.until council decided to remove algea from pond .and in there big rakes where marron...all went. next few days guys where laying pellets all gone.i dont eat marron great for tanks ,had a few monsters for years (1.2 kg and a 1.4 job),big ones breed every 4 to 5 years ,great creature,
Versus
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Sorry but I think that's
Sorry but I think that's incorrect. Koonacs are pretty small, like yabbie size, and they are native to WA. Marron are the largest freshwater crayfish in WA (and I think only second to the Tasmanian cray for size), all the others- yabbies, gilgies, koonacs- are around the same size. That's yabbies in the first pic
tim-o
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Farrk, I thought my marron I
Farrk, I thought my marron I had breeding in a pond were big, only up to half a kilo, got any pics of those kilo plus crays LJ?
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