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Whilst Carp fishing in my local lake i managed to bring in 2xCrayfish on 2 seperate occasions.Firstly are they a common thing in lakes & secondly how the hell do these things get in these lakes? <_<

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Were they the signal crays or the indigenous species (rare, and getting rarer). The signals have large claws which are coloured red underneath, and if you put them back you were breaking the law - you are not allowed to put them back or use them as bait (dead or alive), technically you are not allowed to take them away either but my advice is to take them home and cook them, they are delicious....

 

They were brought into this country from America in the 70's, but many of them escaped from their ponds and travelled overland to other rivers and lakes, that is probably how they got into the lake you fished.

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Quanti Canicula Ille In Fenestra

 

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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When I lived in Reading, a strech of water known as the Holibrook was infested with signals, me and a mate spent a night catching crays and feasting very well, catching crays on a boilie and a carp rod was interesting, pulled out one the size of a small dinner plate.

 

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It was the fish i tell you, they were talking to me !!!
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