Recent Happenings in Our Home - Part One

After our neighbour involved the children in his yabby (a small, freshwater crayfish) fishing a few weeks back, Jordan decided to make his own yabby trap. He found some chicken wire, carefully shaped it, cut the corners and connected the pieces of wire to join it all together. He left an opening on either side, connected tube to the holes to stop the yabbies from escaping and covered the wire completely with shade mesh.

Jamie and Jordan placed raw meat in the trap, threw it out into the dam, attached by a rope, and waited for the yabbies to take the bait. Here are two that they caught.

A friend gave us another trap to use; they then had double the chance of actually catching something. Last night two big (about the size of a big prawn or a small crab) yabbies met their fate, were cooked and eaten by two very excited boys. I don’t have a picture of the cooked product—they were eaten too quickly. But they actually turned a golden orange colour and tasted somewhat like a prawn.

On catching a yabby you must first plunge them into salty water, they will then throw up any bad stuff from their gut. Bring a pot of salty water to a rolling boil, plunge the yabbies into this and they will die instantly. Once the water is boiling again they are ready to take out and cool. You peel the torso section like you would for a prawn. The claws need to be crushed and the meat taken out with a fine tool. Like when you eat lobster or crab.

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