stubby Posted December 13, 2011 Report Share Posted December 13, 2011 I have an identical post over on THL, but am posting it here too for members; seems as though quite a few people are interested in crayfishing, and it also seems fishing areas for them are kept quite secret, and I can understand why to a degree, a bit like pigeon shooting, you would'ent advertise a good,easy to shoot location, had you done all the legwork to get it so, after contacting a few private carp fisheries to see if they needed help with crayfish infestations, and getting the normal, thanks, but we already have someone replies (simular to pigeons,lol) I looked more into the lakes construction, seems most of them are built/dug on farmland to act as a water source to be used in summer months, the water then being replaced from a nearby river in the winter months, a couple of these ponds which claim to have large crayfish infestations, are winter fed by "the river roding" now I know this river quite well, growing up in east london, it was a river that we played,swam,boated in etc, the area's that I know stretch from wanstead right down to barking creekmouth, but it does start somewhere above epping/harlow/stanstead areas now Im not going to attempt to search all these areas for the crays, but its evident that crays are in the roding, they may be the full length, or they may congregate in certain areas, so why dont we form an alliance/club/group of essex/herts crayfishermen if we can get a few different areas covered on the roding, then all pool our info together,we may be able to find a few good areas Im also taking up sea fishing/tidal waters as no license needed, thus I'll cover the creekmouth, but then also next year, say from april, I'll check out areas around wanstead/redbridge etc anyone else fancy trying it out, leave your name and section of roding you'll cover, you never know, as a joint effort we maybe able to map out the whole river, with hotspots etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
palmer_mike Posted January 1, 2012 Report Share Posted January 1, 2012 Used to live in ongar, and can confirm there's loads of crayfish in the roding thereabouts. Have a trap and used to get a few from time to time for a stirfry! Also used to pike fish the lake at lakeside, and although i never fished it for crays we used to have endless trouble with them eating our bait - reckon the lake is infested but not sure if they'd give permission to fish them out or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SilentKill Posted January 3, 2012 Report Share Posted January 3, 2012 Heads up boys, make sure you remove the tags before boiling Herts Cray Fish Linky Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
the_haganizer Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 What I want to know is why they are asking people in the article to "not release their unwanted pets"... How many people keep a crayfish as a pet?!!!! :lol: Robo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OddJob Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 I live in Little Dunmow, the Roding villages aren't a million miles from me. I've never tried it but would be quite interested in giving it a go if that helps at all. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bakerboy Posted January 4, 2012 Report Share Posted January 4, 2012 I live in Little Dunmow, the Roding villages aren't a million miles from me. I've never tried it but would be quite interested in giving it a go if that helps at all. Neal, come out with me for the day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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