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Hi saycheese and welcome.

 

Happy to chat with you but probably further than you want to travel to meet. :D

 

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I'm 5 hours earlier than your time and pretty much of a night owl so not usually awake much before about 4pm UK time.

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Crayfish are mostly just a pain in the arse for anglers - we tend not to want to catch them on purpose. Try www.rivercottage.net forums for more foraging type activities.

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Turkish Crayfish are rife in my local river and in my local day ticket lakes. most if not all anglers hate them unless of course like me they eat them. I also use them for sea angling instead of peeler crabs.

I'm lucky to go fishing everyday (when the FPO allows me)

 

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http://www.easternanglers.co.uk/

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Turkish Crayfish are rife in my local river and in my local day ticket lakes. most if not all anglers hate them unless of course like me they eat them. I also use them for sea angling instead of peeler crabs.

 

 

Hi, thanks for replying. Are Turkish crayfish similar to Signal crayfish? Or another type altogether. Whereabouts do you fish that you find crayfish? I do some beach fishing on the Isle of Sheppey.

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Hi saycheese :) (I'm the one that originally approved your post btw, just didn't have time to reply)

 

Signal crayfish are a major problem as you are probably aware, but simply catching crays is a bit of a problem thanks to AE/Gov rules....

 

The native cray is now protected, so if you accidentally catch one it must go back into the water. If you catch a signal however, it is illegal to put it back and also illegal to take it away (in case you want to use it as bait at another venue which would run the risk of transporting the species and/or the fungal disease they carry). A license to catch them is easy to get however, but since there are literally millions of them in our waters now, it will be impossible to eradicate them.

 

I've caught them a few times whilst fishing, and mostly I've boiled them quickly and eaten them on the bank, but a couple of times I've caught enough to make a very nice risotto. Email me at john [at] culloden [dot] karoo [dot] co [dot] uk and I'll send you the recipe :) (sorry about the funny email address, we get a lot of 'bots on here trawling for them).

 

One good tip for getting rid of the digestive tract before cooking - hold the middle tail 'flipper' and bend it to one side then the other until you hear a faint cracking sound, after that you will be able to pull the 'flipper' away taking the tract out with it.

John S

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Species caught in 2017 Common Ash, Hawthorn, Hazel, Scots Pine, White Willow.

Species caught in 2016: Alder, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Crab Apple, Left Earlobe, Pedunculate Oak, Rock Whitebeam, Scots Pine, Smooth-leaved Elm, Swan, Wayfaring tree.

Species caught in 2015: Ash, Bird Cherry, Black-Headed Gull, Common Hazel, Common Whitebeam, Elder, Field Maple, Gorse, Puma, Sessile Oak, White Willow.

Species caught in 2014: Big Angry Man's Ear, Blackthorn, Common Ash, Common Whitebeam, Downy Birch, European Beech, European Holly, Hawthorn, Hazel, Scots Pine, Wych Elm.
Species caught in 2013: Beech, Elder, Hawthorn, Oak, Right Earlobe, Scots Pine.

Species caught in 2012: Ash, Aspen, Beech, Big Nasty Stinging Nettle, Birch, Copper Beech, Grey Willow, Holly, Hazel, Oak, Wasp Nest (that was a really bad day), White Poplar.
Species caught in 2011: Blackthorn, Crab Apple, Elder, Fir, Hawthorn, Horse Chestnut, Oak, Passing Dog, Rowan, Sycamore, Willow.
Species caught in 2010: Ash, Beech, Birch, Elder, Elm, Gorse, Mullberry, Oak, Poplar, Rowan, Sloe, Willow, Yew.

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No contact from saycheese. Maybe he only wanted to chat with Brits that have experience catching & cooking the critters.

" My choices in life were either to be a piano player in a whore house or a politician. And to tell the truth, there's hardly any difference!" - Harry Truman, 33rd US President

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Hi, thanks for replying. Are Turkish crayfish similar to Signal crayfish? Or another type altogether. Whereabouts do you fish that you find crayfish? I do some beach fishing on the Isle of Sheppey.

 

The Turkish Crayfish are on the Waveney. For specifc site pm me.

 

Turkish Crayfish are a seperate species to signals

I'm lucky to go fishing everyday (when the FPO allows me)

 

East Anglian Fishing Forum

 

http://www.easternanglers.co.uk/

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