No Regrets
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Rather handy living next to the river...
We have noticed a few families fishing for crayfish over the last week or so, and so I instructed SWMBO to obtain a couple of lines and a net, so we could join in the fun.
First foray yesterday arvo saw at least fifteen in an hour, with just two lines and a few bits of bacon, which we gave to the other fishermen along the bank, as we had no way of storing them...
Today, seven in around fifty minutes, which are currently purging in fresh water in the kitchen.
Which makes me wonder how many of these things there are infiltrating our rivers! seriously, there must be billions of the Brown clawed American Crayfish in the Lea alone. Everybody os hoiking them out by the dozen or more, mostly to eat, some, I suspect, are being flogged to local restaurants.
We first saw this a year or so ago up near Sonning, when a local boater had a tender full (400?) of the things, all destined to be sold to eateries in the vicinity for £1 a throw apparently...
It's illegal to chuck them back in, and easy to see why when you see how easy it is to catch them.
The local Chinese (Restaurant?) children were using a simple piece of string, with a net bag of Mackerel, and were pulling out sixty an hour with ease. These were ten year olds....LOL
What a great way to wast a couple of hours!
We have noticed a few families fishing for crayfish over the last week or so, and so I instructed SWMBO to obtain a couple of lines and a net, so we could join in the fun.
First foray yesterday arvo saw at least fifteen in an hour, with just two lines and a few bits of bacon, which we gave to the other fishermen along the bank, as we had no way of storing them...
Today, seven in around fifty minutes, which are currently purging in fresh water in the kitchen.
Which makes me wonder how many of these things there are infiltrating our rivers! seriously, there must be billions of the Brown clawed American Crayfish in the Lea alone. Everybody os hoiking them out by the dozen or more, mostly to eat, some, I suspect, are being flogged to local restaurants.
We first saw this a year or so ago up near Sonning, when a local boater had a tender full (400?) of the things, all destined to be sold to eateries in the vicinity for £1 a throw apparently...
It's illegal to chuck them back in, and easy to see why when you see how easy it is to catch them.
The local Chinese (Restaurant?) children were using a simple piece of string, with a net bag of Mackerel, and were pulling out sixty an hour with ease. These were ten year olds....LOL
What a great way to wast a couple of hours!
