 What don't crayfish eat? |
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 Aug 12 2004, 04:17 AM
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I've just had a session on the Kennet with sweetcorn flavoured with 'Floral Surprise' and I was pestered heavily by Reggie and Ronnie. I used to think that you'd get trouble if you were ledgering with maggot, worm or dead fish, but that vegetable baits would be OK - but it certainly wasn't so today. I don't know if the strong flavouring could have added to the attraction for the crays? I just baited up with a small tin of corn, and by the time the hook bait was in the water they were onto it.
What's a strategy for the future? I realise I could float fish, but are there other baits that would have attracted the crays less? If I'd baited with hemp, for example, would it have attracted less of the blighters into the swim? What do otheres do? -------------------- john clarke
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Aug 12 2004, 05:31 AM
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Themselves unfortunately!!!!!!!!
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Aug 12 2004, 08:22 AM
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Mature signal crays eat about a 75-80% veggie diet if they have free choice. The young ones will eat more meat and certainly a mature one can eat meat but will prefer veggies.
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Aug 12 2004, 04:47 PM
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if you baited up with sweet corn chances are they were drawn into the area, i have found they love sweet corn. I don't ledger on my local stort as the problem is so bad. i float fish and keep the bait moving. where there is a very strong flow on a river i found the crays are less of a problem.
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Aug 12 2004, 05:16 PM
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The only crayfish I ever caught was in the Kennett and Avon canal. I was talking to a couple of American guys the other day who were busy making crayfish(or crawdogs as they call them) traps. They said they had spoken to a local Brit who made a good living from trapping crays in local waters, he said that English waters are stuffed with them. Can this be true? If it's true, where did they come from and why don't we see them more often?
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Aug 12 2004, 05:40 PM
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Gobio, It is a sad fact that the Kennet and surrounding lakes & pits are "crawling" with the little blighters.
As far as I can remember, in a half mile stretch of the river & canal combined below Newbury there were over 17 thousand removed in one season. (All fully legal, with EA licences etc). With numbers like that, you had better believe that the waters are stuffed with them. They came from farmed units, when will people who issue the licences for this type of activity realise that there will be escapes (or releases) and that ecosystems can be damaged. I fish the Kennet a lot and find that when using maggot (mainly a winter bait with me) the use of a sweet flavouring, maple etc, minimises crayfish attraction, but doesn't elininate it. Regards, Peter |
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Aug 12 2004, 10:54 PM
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crayfish are also on the lea now,the removed 2 TON yes 2 TONS from dobbs wier last year,they are also below dobbs and above,they drive me mad on the quiver,they give lovely slow bream pull rounds...
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Aug 12 2004, 11:33 PM
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 AN Resident Contrarian Group: Members Posts: 18,758 Joined: 18-September 01 From: farnham surrey Member No.: 1,265 |
havent yet seen one eat an albatross
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Aug 13 2004, 01:24 AM
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Pot Noodles and Smarties.
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Aug 13 2004, 02:44 AM
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Hi John,
They will eat just about anything. However you can fool them for a short while with new baits, until they recognize them as a food source. I have used some boilies that avoided them for about half a season before they have latched onto them. .......Liam -------------------- "Wisdom is the knowledge of how little we know"
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