redclaw around palmerston ???? : Landbased Fishing Trip Reports

rosho · Posted: Wed Aug 15, 2012 3:39 pm Post subject: redclaw around palmerston ????

Hi

Just wondering if anyone has caught any redclaw out of the lakes around Palmerston or maybe marlow lagoon might chuck the nets in over the weekend

Cheers

porky17

Don't know about Marlows but very muddy the ones out of Durack lakes

fraze

caught a few out of marlows including the biggest redclaw i have seen but i wouldnt eat them

DOUG

that wouldnt have been that big tho fraze ??

rosho

why wouldnt you eat them?

smartypants

i have cought heaps out of the lakes in gunn and my mate ate them and said they tasted alright

rosho

Yeah thats what i have heard cheers

rosho

whats the best times to go? through the day or night time? and i was going to try some cat food for bait, that sound alright?

Sataymas

Mate go get some bars of soap from the shop and chuck half a bar and some rock melon in. We catch em in the thousands back in qld using that. Nice and clean too when your finished rather than smelling like cat food? To get that muddy taste out of them chuck them in a real salty ice brine as soon as you get them this makes them sh*t all the cr.p out. Also slows em down enough to rip the heads off. Like to see some pics if you get some. Good luck.

COOPS

I used to take a torch n spear them from the durack lakes. We ate them..... There were heaps then probably the same now

Territory_Tuff

puts pots in durack and got 7 once

Davey D

what if you put em in a fish tank with the filter on for a few days? that would clean em out you think? am interested because i have a 3 foot tank with no fish and live 400m away from gunn lakes

shaynes_god

Mate I wouldn't eat them but there are plenty in the Durack lakes. You can flush the mud out but that water would have heavy metals in it that gets washed in from the golf course and the cr.p on the road.

Duncs

When I was living in Farrar I use to put pots in or throw chicken pellets (get em at stock feeds or pet barn) in the shallow water at night. Leave it for a bit then throw a cast net over that area and use to pull in bulk red claw and cherabin. Then I put them in my big tank for the week and cook up a massive feed the following weekend with garlic butter. tasted better than prawns.

The smaller ones that I didn't eat i caught a couple of 60cm barra using them as livies. Just go through the corner of the tail, if you hit the cr.p cord in the centre they die really fast.

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