queensland NPD 28/1/10 . 40 L. and sore arms.

[rayke1938]

Hit the dam this morning with a couple of poultry farmer mates.

As we only got 4 shrimp I let the guests fish with them whilst I played around catching gar on unweighted hook and redclaw flesh for bait.Bob ended up with one bass and one tandanus that was kept for redclaw /shrimp bait.

Got sore arms lifting weights like this.

Days catch in 60 l esky.

Would have had more but 2 pots must have been too shallow as all the redclaw in them were dead.

Dropped off and gave Kriso some small redclaw for one of his mates with a dam.

When we got to Bobs place and emptied my esky I left them with a 40l esky chocka full of redclaw.

Not going fishing tomorrow as my arms are too sore. :blush:

Cheers

Ray

[Do$tylz]

wholly jeezus ray.... thats a massive haul

Do you need another laptop?

[fergie]

mmm red claw, my mouth is watering.

ray, curious as to what you use for bait for the red claw?

cheers

ferg.

[rayke1938]

Henry check pm.

Fergie dried cat food whatever is on special.

Cheers

Ray

[Rocket75]

I see the stove was in action too! a nice cuppa, some good company and a beaut feed to boot. Nice!

No fish on the troll today mate?

rocket

[Dusky]

Hey ray , how much meat do ya get out of those redclaw mate, do ya just eat the tail or is there good meat in the legs as well ??

Are they similar to the freshwater yabbies ya get down in NSW??

Cheers

[rayke1938]

Rod we gave up trolling after around an hour as it was stinking hot with no breeze at all.

Cheers

Ray

[Keen-as-fisho]

Did you have a pot of boiling water ready for them for lunch Yummo

[jon]

hey was just wondering if u use dry catfood how you keep it from falling out of the pot once its soggy

[Feral]

Jon, Ray uses special little plastic containers. If you wrap the cat food in toilet paper it will stay in the normal opera house traps perfectly well and still attract redclaw.

[rayke1938]

Dusky wrote:

Hey ray , how much meat do ya get out of those redclaw mate, do ya just eat the tail or is there good meat in the legs as well ??

Are they similar to the freshwater yabbies ya get down in NSW??

Cheers

Much larger than the ones down south. There is tasty meat in the large claws but i dont bother as its too hard to get out so we just eat the tail meat.

Cheers

Ray

[rayke1938]

jon wrote:

hey was just wondering if u use dry catfood how you keep it from falling out of the pot once its soggy

Jon see bumped thread redclaw my method It seems to work well for me.

Cheers

Ray

[Brian D]

Huge haul of claw. Did you try new spots or was it just your day.

[rayke1938]

New spots were the producers only had a couple of pots in old areas and they only had a few small ones in them. Also found that daytime is working ok with over 40 caught in the 3 hour period when we checked them again on way home.

Cheers

Ray

[Bommie]

nice haul there Ray