Dropnetting big yabbies with Robbie Alexander
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- čas přidán 7. 11. 2018
- This yabbying session was SO AWESOME! Crayfish, crawfish, crawdad, mudbug etc... Theyre all pretty much the same thing all around the world with different names and different characteristics.
Here in Australia we call these small freshwater crustaceans yabbies. Their scientific name is Cherax Destructor. We have dozens of different species under the Cherax genus here in Australia however it is the Cherax Destructor, or "Yabby" that is the most populat, particularly in Eastern Australia.
We also have several different species of freshwater crayfish which tend to grow much larger and have a preference for cooler well oxygenated water.
From what I have read, I believe the Australian Yabby is very similar to the crawdad in America. Although the crawdad has a different genus and species they have similar characteristics.
I believe the crawdad is actually a signal crayfish which is prone do a disease called the crayfish plague. If anybody reads this knows better, please feel free to correct me if I am wrong. I am only going by what I have read on websites.
Anyhow, yabby, crayfish, crawfish, mudbug, crawdaddy etc... etc... It does not matter. The one similarity that they ALL have in common is that they are AMAZING fun to catch no matter where in the world you are.
Catching crustaceans in nets is always stacks of fun.
#yabby #crawdad #crayfish - Auta a dopravní prostředky
Haha laughed my head off when you licked your hand, some big ones too. Great job Robbie.
"You gotta keep em seperated!" Love the offspring reference rob!
haha Thanks mate. I sure can sing good... NOT!
One of my favourite childhood memories. I still go with my cousins out at Collarenebri and Lightning Ridge.
Another fantastic video Robbie, I really enjoyed it. Thanks!! 😁
Love these vids Robbie - subbed! When we were kids mate we used to use Mom's stockings for yabbies. You just chuck some meat in the stocking so it sits in the end then toss it in with a bit of cord tied round the end. Wait awhile then slowly pull it up. The yabbies claws get caught in the nylon and you just scoop them up with a net! Cheers, mate!
Haha thanks so much for the great tip mate, and for subscribing.
I started singing it after you said it only to realise you were as well.. classic! subscribed. keep it up mate loving it
Just found your channel love it! The best things in life are free!. Keep it up.
Thanks so much for your kind comment.
What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Very entertaining video Robbie as always.
haha Thanks so much Vincent. I think I may be immune to germs. LOL
Those things are huge! And that's awesome that you sorted them out at the end release the small ones great video Robbie! 👍
Thanks heaps mate. I need to go out again. I can't get enough, it's so much fun. I would love to catch your crawfish to see how much they differ.
love the enthusiasm! Keep it up!
Thanks heaps mate.
Great stuff Robbie. Loveing the videos mate.
Thanks so much Kade.
Keep the ya bby videos up Robbie! They are great.
Thanks heaps Ji.
Great videos mate. Love your work
Thanks heaps Janbar.
great video robbie. nothin like a day of yabbing during spring
Thanks buddy, and you're not wrong. I LOVE it!
Oh what step back in time, Use eat “Bush Tucker” when I lived in the scrub 30years ago. Top vids Robbie mate, memory lane
Haha We all love a bit of Bush Tucker mate. Thanks for watching.
Once again great video,got out of hospital yesterday (ruptured appendix)no heavy lifting for 4 to 6 weeks,after watching all your yabby videos I'm hanging to get too my favorite dam, you can smell the yabbies' when you pull up.hopefully the boss will let me out.cheers Craig
Thanks heaps Craig. WOW sounds painful. I hope you're OK mate.
Omg, mate you make me laugh, I can't believe you licked your hand.. Lauretta well done keeping your lunch...😂😂.... and awesome work with the camera...
Hahahaha thanks Brad. I'm as mad as a cut snake. LOL Always living on the edge.
The quality of the last few videos have been great Robbie keep up the effort because it’s making your videos stand out big time! Not long until 1 million! Lol
Hahaha Thanks for your support Connor. I hope you're right mate.
What a great video Robbie love ya work mate
Thanks heaps mate.
Cracking video Robbie some really good tips in their and a good feed
Thanks heaps Blair. I cooked them earlier an am just about to eat them now.
That stick trick is one of the best things you have ever taught me
haha Thanks mate. Simple, primitive and works a treat!
Love your videos mate
Hi Zac thanks so much mate.
Nice haul matey, spewing you didn't catch the big black one. I know how it feels one time at surf fishing I reeled a nice size King George Whiting as soon as it hit he rocks boom" got way, was easy about 30-35cm
Thanks mate. It think that when we sign up to go fishing we agree that we will accept the losses. Haha 😅 Thanks so much for watching.
Nice video once again Robbie
Thanks heaps Thomas.
Nice Rob!!
Love your older video as much as the new ones carnt beat a yabbie video cheers from grumpy
Grumpy you champion, thank you so much. I can't even remember what happened in this video. I might have to watch it. Haha
You GOT some nice yabbies there this time Rob!
Thanks UF. I just finished eating them.
Oh yummeh! Tossed in a bit of butter and garlic?
Yes! Loving the yabbie vids!!!
Thanks mate.
Shocking joke big fella but I laughed my head off 😂😂😂
Love ya work mate
WTH is with lickin ya hand 😂😂😂 good way to make ya self crook, your a bloody dill big fella but that’s why we love watching ya show 👍
Keep up the good work.
Hahaha thanks mate. I lived to tell the tale. LOL
Great video mate keep the good work up!!
Thanks heaps Jack.
tangled on the angle, Robbie you`re a poet and didn`t know it boom boom.
Hahaha Alby Tangles
Interesting tips about the white things on the yabbies. great vid again.
Thanks heaps Marc.
I loved that you licked your fingers for your fans! You’ve earned my subscription 🤪🤪🤪
Hahahaha yeah I'm a bit of a "Space cadet". LOL I actually just filmed my first yabbying video for the season today.
@@robbiefishing it takes one to know one hahahaha usually what all people would do is chicken out right before they do something stupid 🤪🤪🤪 and I’ll be looking forward to new yappie video
Great video mate, can't wait to get the nets in somewhere! I think the RobberDuck came to mine last night as well
hahaha thanks heaps Connor and good luck!
Better then last time good job robbie
Thanks heaps mate.
Love your vid mate please make more thanks
Thank you so much Jo.
your wife as some talent mate, some of her pics are unreal!
Thanks Sam. She does not post often but when she does her photos are pure quality.
Robbie mate your a legend
Thanks heaps Tomaso.
Great vid robbie
Thanks heaps Charlie.
My childhood right here. Love a good feed
Thanks mate. Me too. I can't wait for spring time so I can go yabbying again.
Nice video Robbie. I have a perfect sized cod bait yabbie in my fish tank. Until cod season that is😂. Hope that doesn’t sound too messed up lol.
Hahaha not at all James.
Churz bud great vidz keep up the good work🤙
Thanks heaps buddy!
yes, Robbie mates another banger of a vid.
Thanks so much Cooper.
put a float where the 3 strings attached the ring connect to the main line, it keeps the strings up so they don't get under the yabbie, so when you pull the string, it doesn't flip the yabbie off
Robbie! U wanted to give them 15 minutes but gave them a quarter of an hour instead??? Hahahahaha ur too funny bro. Good stuff!!!
Hahaha Thanks mate. I was wondering if anybody would pick up on that. LOL
you should get a extendable pole that painters use to paint houses that way you don't have to walk in so far and you can use longer strings.
Great idea.
Loving the videos mate keep up the good work! And that lambs fry I recon I could taste that from here yuck!
Hahaha was pretty horrible. LOL Thanks mate.
Gonna give them 15 minutes, but instead you gave them a quarter of an hour? Nice one Robbie! ;)
In the U.S. Crayfish are less than 1/4 (the big ones) the size of what you are showing. I have "fished" for them from upstate NY to Northern Illinois. The method you use is how we on the east coast of the US fish for saltwater crabs. I have never eaten a Crayfish as, when I first started taking them for bait, it was from a couple of ponds where Dairy cows drank, peed and pooped.
Hi Tim, I find dams with cow shit in them tend to be great for yabbying. Must be some goodness in that poop mate!
@@robbiefishing The bass agree with you. Do you ever check for eggs or to check for male/female? Are you worried about another species (maybe smaller, less edible but more prolific) crowding out the big established guys you are eating?
Hi buddy, cool vids...have u been up top of nsw or over border in QLD at all
Keep the vids up 👍🏽👍🏽
Thanks heaps mate.
Robbie you bugger, making me hungry and homesick dude...... ill have to eat more goats head tonight to make up for this torture lol. ATB Moose
hahahaha goats head? Sounds interesting Moose. LOL Do you eat the eyes? Do they see you through the whole day?
When I first saw you Utube video talking about Yabbies, I thought What the hell is a Yabbie? Then I saw you we fishing for Crawfish. Until in another video you caught a Yabbie the size of the main lobster we have off the Atlantic coast. Sooo I had to revise my nomenclature of what a Yabbie is to an American crawfish. Now my thinking is getting some Yabbies and raising them in Lousiana and making a bunch of cash. Good God man these things could feed the world.
Thank you so much Keith. There are actually very successful yabby farms right here in Australia.
We've got access 2 dams just by the house yard.
Nothing better than walking 20 or 30 metres from your back door and catching a feed!!
WOW so awesome. I am jealous.
Good catch Rob. next time try comparing using a bar of soap and liver for bait, put the nets side by side and see if soap actually works.
Thanks mate, I really do need to do this soon.
Best bear grylls moment of your life LOL
Hahahahaha
Whetted my appetite to go out Robbie
What do you do while your waiting around? Sit in the car with the aircon blasting and a good book?
You have made me want to go yabbying me I haven't caught yabbies for years me and my wife's cousin used to go down and catch yabbies used to have a fire throw them on the fire cook them up and eat them with blackberries
Sounds awesome mate. A bit of Bush tucker!
Love it nothing wrong with trying a bit of what your dinners eating hehehe the cloud video was cool to were the birds you showed for your wife’s pictures rainbow bee eaters?
Thanks Cam. They sure are rainbow bee eaters mate, my wife's favourite bird.
No yabbies in dams on farm here...they dried out a few yrs back...u think they will come back also can u catch yabbies in creeks or rivers..thnx again for videos
Thanks Paul. Hopefully the yabbies buried into the mud and come back as soon as the water returns mate.
Hi Rob, where is the place for Yabbies? Love to go and catch some for fun. Love your show!
What are you using for bait?
Heh ur daughter is first to like and comment!👍❤️
That's because my daughter is beautiful. :)
Hi mate, could you show us the cooking of the yabbies and you eating them? recipe suggestions would also be cool aswell, cheers!
Hi radish, here's one I prepared earlier. czcams.com/video/68KXfF6g1iM/video.html
Awesome Robbie! When I used some of the new square upright nets last December the liver I used was often gone after a few hours or overnight. What do you think took them? Phil
G'day Phil, that's really hard to say mate. If they weren't tied in properly they would fall out as the net was sinking.
If they were tied in properly, possibly yabbies could have eaten it down enough for the sting to be loose, then either yabbies, turtles or water rats could have lifted it out perhaps?
@@robbiefishing Yeah it was tied well so i suspect it was turtles or water rats.
Nice haul Robbie! If you can get that many big ones on a cool windy day, I can only imagine what you're going to have in the nets on a hot summer day! Oh by the way, why was the broom late? Because it swept in. LOL
Hahahahaha love it.
This might be a dumb question if there are little carp like that in the dam does that mean there are big ones in there that u cab fish for with a rod?
Hi mate, not really. These carp are just goldfish. There may be some larger European carp although I dod nit see any.
why would you lick that shyt! Gee that was funny! Keep up the good work buddy!!
Hahahaha thanks Les. All in the name of science. LOL
Ohhh do you gotta use drop nets to catch big yabbies cheers 🥂
Hi mate no you can use open top lift bets, collapsable bait traps and the good old meat and stri g technique too.
Looks like so much fun.
Q: Can you keep yabbies in a make shift mini dam?
Was thinking about making one to hold them or just a fish tank.
Basically ready to cook.
i'd like to see you try yabbing old school, how i learnt
pulling the line in with meat on the end and scope with a net.
I would pull in plenty but when i came to netting a lot would drop off.....LOL
Biggest Yabbies ive seen!!!
Nice Vid
Thanks mate. I reckon it would work as long as you kept the water up to them, and not town water with chlorine in it.
why do you not have a size limit on they yabbys but you do on the crayfish?
Hi Phoebe it's because yabbies are much more abundant, much more resilient and a far lesser risk of overn harvesting. Yabbies can live in stagnant water such as dams, puddles, drains etc... As well as fresh flowing rivers whereas crayfish are restricted to fresh good quality water.
are there fish in that water? could you fish there if you wanted with a rod and reel?
Hi Phoebe there are a few small carp (goldfish) in there but in doubt that you would catch one on a rod a one reel.
Hi Robbie you can thank me later I moved you off 666 (the mark of the beast) Good video. Damn I was all set to buy that "Magic net" But it wasn't magic enough.
Was waiting for the next yabbie vid
haha I hope I didn't disappoint mate.
Not one bit
The reason u had some in the 4th net on the first check is because by the time u got to the last net it had probably been 10 minutes not 5 like the others
Will your body will filled with silt eating them?
No mate. The meat is clean and VERY VERY nice.
Can you do another yabby catch and cook please Robbie?
Hopefully I will do down the track buddy.
1:20-1:31 omg mate you cracked me up
LOL mate primative technology.
@@robbiefishing I'm sure somebody finds it delectable
I like the open top nets better
Hahaha that lick 😂😂😂
Hahaha not gone of my brightest moves. LOL
camera looks good mate
Thanks heaps Sam.
I haven’t been yabbing for a while but last time I went we ran into a huge brown snake and haven’t gone since😂
haha Charlie, you gotta watch where you put your feet mate.
You should try fishing see if there are decent carp
i watched this video and realised ive left a yabbie net in a nearby dam for a few weeks i checked it this morning and there were two dead yabbies the size of a coke can
WOW I wonder how they died?
😂😂😂 Paraphrased "instead of 15 minutes I gave it a quarter of an hour"
Haha I was just seeing if everyone was awake. LOL
@@robbiefishing OK mate I'm not really the fishing type but I'd thought I'd research a bit so I could do a bit of yabbying for the first time. So I'll subscribe just for the joke 😁
Haha thanks mate. I throw a lot of jokes into my videos. Laughter is a very positive emotion.
YES IT’S THE $5 KMART NET!!!
These nets are amazing mate!
Can’t beat the cheesy jokes Robbie you can’t ha ha
hahaha mate I love it!
If it tasted good would you keep licking it?
hahahahahaha that's an interesting question. LOL Probably not.
would you ever do saltwater fishing ah
Sure would mate, if I was much closer.
at 14.30 in the video, you nearly had a stroke ya crazy man
Hahahaha
Other than the fact you absolutely butchered my joke, that was a great video my dear friend.
For those of you who are playing at home the joke was supposed to be:
Who stole the soap from the bath?
The Robber Ducky!
Hahahaha I was close mate. I think I am better at butchering jokes than I am butchering the meat. LOL
oh, and have a good Remembrance Day.
Its too bloody hot in Australia just for the sleeveless flanny:)
hahaha usually is, today was quite a cool day.
How about this joke Robbie when I woke up I was having a bowl of cornflakes and I stood on a peace of cereal and know I’m a
Cereal killer
hahahaha love it! LOL
Piece.
robbiefishing you’re the only person on CZcams I expect a reply from
Ooh sarcastic much?
Release em back in tha bucket 😂😂😂
How about this one ( why did the fish think they were going to would war 2.
Because they were in a tank
Hahahaha love it mate.
Yabbie Robbie your new name..
LoL
haha "Well do robbieyabbying" LOL
Yes this also sounds nice..lol from india
You should have doved in after it lol
LOL I could have just walked, it's only knew deep. LOL
Pretty sure the water level dropped after you pulled those big ones out.
hahaha quite possibly Scott. LOL