HOW NOT TO CATCH A YABBIE (FRESHWATER CRAYFISH)

[jimmymcmannix]

if it has stubby spikes down each side of it's tail, then it would be a freshwater cray

[cokebottlemichael]

@jimmymcmannix Definatly a freshwater crayfish! at over 80km inland from the ocean & in a freshwater creek under a waterfall!!! LOL

[Yamyatos]

Oh..oh..oh..ohh.... ich kann keiner nix erkennen xDDD

[g3791]

i think you will find its a spiny cray by the colouration & clear water its in

[FlamingFury5]

just what the hell is a yabbie?

[cokebottlemichael]

@FlamingFury5 - I have heard them called them Yabbies, Yabby's Crayfish, Crawdads & Marron.....

[SaucyTuRkLeBiRd]

@cokebottlemichael yabbies marron and freshwater crayfish are all different species from what i know

[BuildItTutorials]

@FlamingFury5 americans call them crawfish, in the UK they are crayfish but here we have our yabbies. This one is a big blackie, but you get blueys and reds too. Best place in NSW for reds is Blue Mountains Canyons

[cokebottlemichael]

@Build Tutorials - the red ones are called Mountain Constrictors I think & the colder the water the redder they are, I have caught & eaten big reds from a creek near Mt Wilson...

[fishkabobable]

Dude this is NOTa YABBY yabbs are blue that thing is a marron since tiz black with HUGE claws

[cokebottlemichael]

@fishkabobable

We have blue yabby's as well as bright red, I have never heard them called marron before, but they seem to have a lot of names, crawdads, crayfish, yabbie, yabby etc LOL

[SaucyTuRkLeBiRd]

@fishkabobable yabbies are black blue or red

[fishkabobable]

Dude this is NOTa YABBY yabbs are blue that thing is a marron since tiz black with HUGE claws

[blueybushfly]

Looks more like a marron to me.

[blueybushfly]

Looks more like a marron to me...

[blueybushfly]

Looks more like a marron to me...

[blueybushfly]

Looks more like a marron to me...

[PrincessSupersam]

that yabbie had major attitude

[icneudio]

nice

[aleupalex]

i saw one just like this by my local lake, and it was just starring at me with those claws as a warning. I dont know how it ended up in the walkers path...

[cokebottlemichael]

I belive that they will cross land if there is a drought, they go looking for water

[jikininki1]

you call em yabbies in Australia? ohbecause i have a friend and he kept saying when we were fishing use the yabbies i had no idea what the hell he was talking about and he cought more fish lol

[KillaGunna24]

you could carry him home if u had a loose thread on ur clothing, i cought one once and i carried on my sweatshirt string! he just clinged on the whole time lol

[PinkGemini57]

small crawfish

[thEsPamer106]

there are smaller specise, such as the albino Georgia crawfish wich stay small(only about an inch head to tail)

[refcom70]

where abouts in the blue mountains is this?

[cokebottlemichael]

We were near Lawson, at Cataract Falls which is on the Southern side of the highway

[AquariaTips]

Your accent is very difficult to follow.

[cokebottlemichael]

I'm just a typical Aussie :) G'day! cobber LOL

[pklifter]

dude that is massive, didnt realise how big he was unil the end of the vid! GO CRAYDABS!!!

[alicephrontistery]

COKEBOTTLEMICHAEL, thanks for your reply. They look so menacing but they're really not mean just protective. I'm from the west part of Texas in USA and crawdads are not that big here. My family, friends and I do trap them for boils and sorry to say this but I think we would enjoy eating the yabbies, too.

[cokebottlemichael]

I have cooked and ate one about twice as big as that one about 20 years ago, we caught the big one & about 10 the same size as this one, cooked them up - YUM

We also found a female big one, with eggs under it's tail, we put that one back! ;)

There is heaps of these in our creeks in the mountains, I posted this vid so some friends in the US & the UK could see.

[alicephrontistery]

Shoot! And they say everything's bigger in Texas? Try telling that to the yabbies! Ha ha I'm jealous! I loved that video...I love seeing something in another part of the world. My husband has gone around the world except for Australia, Russia and one other place, which I can't remember right now but, God providing, one day I'd like to visit your land and catch me some yabbies...AWESOME!

[0oDaMange888]

Yeah they r great u would def love'm

at mangrove mtn we have em about 20cm to 25cms long i will try get a pic of 1 B4 i move from here 4 u

[alicephrontistery]

You do that! By the by, where you heading? Seems it's migration time this summer for me as well. I'm heading to Virginia. People more into crabbing there than the crayfish.

[alicephrontistery]

I'd never heard of a crawdad called a yabbie. This one looks colorful.

[cokebottlemichael]

That's what we call them in Australia, they get redder & bigger too!

The breed is called "Mountain Constrictor" I think, I have seen them red as a lobster in really cold water.

[fiswis]

vicious little bastard!!!!.... they're the same as crabs, you could catch it and pull every single leg off and just leave it with one claw... the fucker would still try and kill ya!!! lol

[TFKforever]

They don't bite dummies, they pinch.

[startwiththeballs]

swedens are cool

[huwjun]

australians are awsum yabbie sounds so cool they evn gt neighbours filmed ther "respect"

[Satanperkele]

The australians are cool, and ur jealous.

[tjp29]

because "crawfish" makes sense?

[VDOcollector]

he's huge? that looked like one of the eustacid family ... some of them reach a kg or two. hey, why did you video yourself harrassing a wild animal?

[k1as4]

Like your video...have seen a few yabbies also during bushwalks around the Blue Mtns, your one certainly was a reasonable size and not very happy!! Its terrific you are taking the kids out, nothing better than for them to see the wonders of the Aussie bush.