HOW NOT TO CATCH A YABBIE (FRESHWATER CRAYFISH)

Video of me trying to pick up a yabbie & getting nipped last weekend when I was out bushwalking in the Blue Mountains in Australia last weekend (04-Mar-07) with my 4 kids.
The yabbie was about 20cm long & would have been good eating except I had no way to get it home because as it was I had to carry my 3 & 5 yr old's & I could not expect my 2 older boys to try & carry a very angry yabbie the 45min walk out of the bush.

Next time I will take a small esky with ice! (The ice is to put on my wounds)

Category:

Pets & Animals

Tags:

• yabbie
• crayfish
• nipped
• bitten
• blue
• mountains
• australia
• bushwalk

[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

[FlamingFury5]

just what the hell is a yabbie?

[cokebottlemichael]

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

[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...

[Yamyatos]

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

[SaucyTuRkLeBiRd]

@fishkabobable yabbies are black blue or red

[SaucyTuRkLeBiRd]

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

[g3791]

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