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Whats the best way to cook them?

In sea water boiled

What is a good all purpose bait for yabbies and cherabin, and how often should nets be checked.

small cans of cat food, work well.

Unscented soap for cherabin.

blw wrote:Unscented soap for cherabin.

Soap isn't really environmentally friendly for our waterways...

I use a half a spud lightly boiled for cherabin, doesn't attract too much other bycatch.

Chook pellets or dog biscuits in a shadecloth bag

I heard there are a lot in durack lakes. I have a question, can you use them to live bait in salt water, or does the salt kill them?

Second that for chook pellets

Weird isn't it, re the soap? Somewhere, sometime years ago, some idiot thought - "hey, let's try soap for bait in the cherabin pot!"

Either that, or someone was washing themselves in a lake or creek, and they got covered in cherabin. Or they saw a cherabin stealing the soap ...

Never bend over to pick up a dropped soap in the NT. Croc might get you!

Dropped soap is also best left where it is in Adelaide ...

Im certain it was the bathing thing Matt. That's how I first found out about it!

They must be attracted to the animal fats in the soap, I reckon some pork rind would work pretty well

itsinmeblood wrote:They must be attracted to the animal fats in the soap, I reckon some pork rind would work pretty well

We will have to test it Jim. Just jump in the water with your shirt off All the pork rind you could ever need!

cuddlescooper wrote:

itsinmeblood wrote:They must be attracted to the animal fats in the soap, I reckon some pork rind would work pretty well

We will have to test it Jim. Just jump in the water with your shirt off All the pork rind you could ever need!

Pot kettle black tubbyguts

Using soap to catch yabbies has been used around Australia since the first settlers. Often used in the outback and the River Murray. Now Snappy Tom pilchards in Aspic is used or Garlic metwaurst if you cant get fish pieces or a chop

As far as where do you catch them. Just after the wet the culverts around Palmerston are full of them as are most creeks up here

Cooking them is easy. rule of thumb is cook them till they float with a bit of salt and some sugar ( that's what the commercials use). 2 or 3 gum leaves removes any muddy taste