crayfish quandary

[jimdfish]

I have been using the same spot for trapping crays for some time now and this year there is Nada. Not a one. Do they slow down in cold water? Are they breeding?

advice pleaae.

JDF

[dusk2dawn]

I have been using the same spot for trapping crays for some time now and this year there is Nada. Not a one. Do they slow down in cold water? Are they breeding?

advice pleaae.

JDF

 

 

Hopefully you have trapped them all

 

D2D

[Teal]

Might someone be beating you to check your trap.

[pavman]

Jim

 

we normally catch a few once the weather warms up a bit and numbers increase around the same time as the course fish june/july,

 

PS dont tell NTTF it will only make him grumpy again, he only has rats just now

[jimdfish]

Nix on the trap checking Im sure.

It would be nice to think I had cleared the weir of them, but I doubt it.

We did have more success in the summer months last year admittedly. I will go back tonight and check a gain

JDF

[Lancs Lad]

Nix on the trap checking Im sure.

It would be nice to think I had cleared the weir of them, but I doubt it.

We did have more success in the summer months last year admittedly. I will go back tonight and check a gain

JDF

Nah, have caught loads of em in traps over the winter time...

[Highlander]

Are these native ones you've been catching or their American cousins?

[MC]

Let's hope it is not natives, or at least if it is you are putting them back

[peter-peter]

I have been using the same spot for trapping crays for some time now and this year there is Nada. Not a one. Do they slow down in cold water? Are they breeding?

advice pleaae.

JDF

praps youv'e caught em all

[Cranfield]

I would doubt if the water is warm enough yet.

[new to the flock]

Jim Lad, I would have to agree that it is a water temperature concern. I imagine that you will once again be sitting down to large platters of them once it is a little warmer.

 

NTTF

[jimdfish]

Highlander and martincavie,

Do you really suspect, even for a minute that I would be trapping and eating native crayfish. If yes, curl your fingers into a fist and strike yourself in the face with it until at least a modicum of common is bashed in.

Native crayfish do not come to traps, check with the EA if you dont believe me, and secondly have you ever actaully seen a native crayfish. Very small indeed. Now as a big fat bloke I could probably eat almost all of the remaining native crayfish in Britain in one sitting and still have room for honey glazed osprey.

 

All others, i will keep plugging at the traps and let you know. I did find a lot in moult in the summer months under rocks whereas there are none therer now. I am wondering if during the moult they move from the "colony" to shelter under rocks to prevent them being predated by the other crayfish. I also found an obvious dining place where an animal has been eating them on a ledge under the waterfall. I have sat for ages trying to see it to no avail. What do you reckon, Mink or otter?

jimDfish

[peter-peter]

Highlander and martincavie,

Do you really suspect, even for a minute that I would be trapping and eating native crayfish. If yes, curl your fingers into a fist and strike yourself in the face with it until at least a modicum of common is bashed in.

Native crayfish do not come to traps, check with the EA if you dont believe me, and secondly have you ever actaully seen a native crayfish. Very small indeed. Now as a big fat bloke I could probably eat almost all of the remaining native crayfish in Britain in one sitting and still have room for honey glazed osprey.

 

All others, i will keep plugging at the traps and let you know. I did find a lot in moult in the summer months under rocks whereas there are none therer now. I am wondering if during the moult they move from the "colony" to shelter under rocks to prevent them being predated by the other crayfish. I also found an obvious dining place where an animal has been eating them on a ledge under the waterfall. I have sat for ages trying to see it to no avail. What do you reckon, Mink or otter?

jimDfish

E lad! Huddersfield narrow canal holds loads of native crays,

as for traps, and knowing crays, I would have thought the little ******* would jump into owt for a free meal

[MC]

jimdfish,

 

you have been smoking what is shown in your avatar again, Native crayfish do not go into traps? Is that why the EA state a mesh size for traps to let the smaller natives go.