Yabbies / Nippers : redclaw, marron & yabbies

Gold Can · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:34 pm Post subject: Yabbies / Nippers

Is there anywhere around Darwin where you can go and pump some nippers / Yabbies?????

Backlash · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 9:50 pm Post subject:

Gold Can,

As a southerner I have not seen many signs of yabbie/pink nipper activities up here. All the sandy areas I have found in the harbour do not show the normal holes associated with the yabbies, there may be the odd few around but I'm yet to find any. May have to ask a local.......... :grin:

I know down south they are a top bait.
Would like to know if anyone else has had luck on finding some nippers/yabbies?

Cheers
Lash

flicker · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:14 pm Post subject: nippers

I didn't think anyone up here would bother, if its not big enough to eat a live mullet it aint worth catchin is it ?

Seriously though , I don't know

Cheers Flicker :mrgreen:

2rods · Posted: Mon Jun 18, 2007 11:52 pm Post subject:

Never seen them up here GC... I don't think we get them

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use to use them on Bribie island alll the time whenI was a little tacker :wink:

long time ago now

I have never even seen a yabbie pump up her for sale......gotone had one a few months ago that they ordered for some tradesman but he was using it to take samples or some thing like that

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Don't be shy about using the crabs you see around though....they can be top bait for most of our fish...big goldies in the creeks love them :mrgreen:

harmsey · Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 9:25 am Post subject:

bcf and amart sell yabby pumps but the local guys dont. i spent a few hours looking out the mouth of bufalo creek but no sign of em. if they were gunna be anywhere thats where they would be or shoal bay maybe but i always keep my eye out for em.

:cheers:

harmsey

Fishful · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 4:20 pm Post subject:

I have always been interested to know there are nipper/one arm baddits up here. They were great bait for whiting and flathead down south. I reckon I have seen some good holes that would be worth pumping (with a yabbie pump). I pulled out my old yabbie pump a while back, but the rubber had perished. I would have liked to see what is around. Maybe even sandworms

Matt Flynn · Posted: Thu Jul 05, 2007 7:45 pm Post subject: nippers

There is a type of nipper that can be found under rocks - same shape as the southern nipper but smaller and darker. Never found them in any numbers.

I figure it's easier to get a pack of prawns for the local whiting, they don't seem too fussy :grin:

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