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Yabbies.... like a crawfish??
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Some nice Yabbies there Booma, I like to boil them up and the get there tails into a hot fry pan with garlic and shallots with a little oil and some butter and when you've given them a little loving season with some salt, those have nice big fat claws aswell which up here we only get redclaw
I use(boiling em) Old Bay with some fresh garlic, onion, basil, and pepper powder here in the States. I dip em in a garlic butter with hot sauce mix
Well i can now say that Yabbies are bloody tasty!!!!!
Marinated them in a hot sauce brine last night, bought a pot to boil of the mixture this afternoon, half a stick of butter went in, added a heap of fresh garlic, paprika, salt and pepper, then threw in the Yabbies. Couple of minutes on high heat and they were ready.
Very very messy, but worth it. Loved em, will be gettting them again.
Marinated them in a hot sauce brine last night, bought a pot to boil of the mixture this afternoon, half a stick of butter went in, added a heap of fresh garlic, paprika, salt and pepper, then threw in the Yabbies. Couple of minutes on high heat and they were ready.
Very very messy, but worth it. Loved em, will be gettting them again.
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you've got my mouth a watering, haven't been yabbying for ages,
think it might be time to do a bit this summer,
there's heaps down this way in the dams over summer
think it might be time to do a bit this summer,
there's heaps down this way in the dams over summer
man oh man they look good!
Got blue ones here. They're pretty popular with the local hillbillies
DDaaammmmnn that looks good. I know this thread is a few months old but hell I cant wait till Blue Claws start running here in jersey.
Last year was probably the best Blue claw season in many years and My boat didnt see a drop of water, was too busy growin peppers!
This year I'm in!
Wow those look great. We catch cray fish all the time back home in the Caribbean but I saw that one of the lakes here in Nebraska is full of them. Time to invest in a trap and get a ton of them to boil up one day. YUM!!
claws and tails yes, heads no.
Where was this thread hiding? Wow Booma, nice looking mud-bugs.
We like to boil them in beer w some pickling spices.
add some hot powder if you choose. There's nothing you can't do with them, they ar like shrimp that way.
I am thinking you should make a crawdad, andouille sausage pizza...
If you can find some traps like this, and you have a place to set them so you can check them every couple hours, sweet.
If not, over night works really well. I think they are nocturnal, but don't quote me on that.
and punctured can of cat food for bait or chicken legs is great bait.
You can easily make traps too... "Google it". lol
Do it bro!
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We like to boil them in beer w some pickling spices.
add some hot powder if you choose. There's nothing you can't do with them, they ar like shrimp that way.
I am thinking you should make a crawdad, andouille sausage pizza...
If you can find some traps like this, and you have a place to set them so you can check them every couple hours, sweet.
If not, over night works really well. I think they are nocturnal, but don't quote me on that.
and punctured can of cat food for bait or chicken legs is great bait.
You can easily make traps too... "Google it". lol
Do it bro!
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An uncle spent time in Oz as a commercial diver/welder. On his off time he snorkeled/free-dove for the crawfish where they'd be under rocks or coral or something. The guys carried a little doohickey to measure them with, to make sure they were legal size. I thought for sure he was catching them in salt water though? And, yes, they did call them "crayfish" (I think). Surely not lobster.
He claimed those crawfish were the best he ever ate. We would mail him the little sacks of dried "Louisiana Crab Boil" by Zatarain's. The liquid boil would have been more expensive to ship. Now, they sell the powdered mix that is the quintessential Louisiana crab boil. Easy-peezy-fo-sheezy!
My uncle (a thoroughbred Cajun) claimed that yellow head-fat was every bit as delicious as the fat in our Louisiana crawfish. That is what we suck the heads for!
The weird food guy, Andrew Zimmern showed an Australian fisherman about the head fat of lobsters on a show where they cooked them on the beach. The Aussie was very reluctant to try it. But, afterwards he swore he'd never let any more of that good stuff go in the trash ever again.
He claimed those crawfish were the best he ever ate. We would mail him the little sacks of dried "Louisiana Crab Boil" by Zatarain's. The liquid boil would have been more expensive to ship. Now, they sell the powdered mix that is the quintessential Louisiana crab boil. Easy-peezy-fo-sheezy!
My uncle (a thoroughbred Cajun) claimed that yellow head-fat was every bit as delicious as the fat in our Louisiana crawfish. That is what we suck the heads for!
The weird food guy, Andrew Zimmern showed an Australian fisherman about the head fat of lobsters on a show where they cooked them on the beach. The Aussie was very reluctant to try it. But, afterwards he swore he'd never let any more of that good stuff go in the trash ever again.