Accidental Catch

[Ernie]

My youngest son went fishing the other day.  He always has great luck usually landing plenty of snapper and gurnard.  This time he pulled up a very pleasant surprise, a huge crayfish.

 



Our grand daughter was also very impressed with daddy's efforts

 



Unfortunately, the closest I got to this beauty is the picture

[Ianab]

No question about that guy being legal size 

Hope they had a pot big enough to cook it.

Ian

[Ernie]

Being keen fishermen and for a bit of a laugh, I got them both matching craypots as a wedding gift.  Maybe a slight ulterior motive on my part   So far no joy in the cray department but we do get a constant supply of good fresh fish.  They came over for tea last night and left us with a large part of the day's catch

 



I like the idea of frozen, water filled, drink bottles  instead of ice, it keeps things cleaner in the chilly bin.

[Raider Bill]

That looks a lot like a Florida lobster. No claws.

[Weekend_Sawyer]

 Mmmmm Bugs!

[WildDog]

Ernie that cray is really impressive, my mouth is watering, those snapper look good too, I bought 3 snapper fillets last week just for Nicky and I......Delicious but @ $30 

[Burlkraft]

I like snapper better than lobster.


Them look pretty DanG good!

[DanG]

Yep, that looks just like a "Florida Spiney Lobster", which is really a saltwater crayfish.  That's a sure enough big one though!  Do they commonly get that big down there?  They are some mighty fine eating, and many people prefer them over the Maine Lobster.

[Raider Bill]

Yep, that looks just like a "Florida Spiney Lobster", which is really a saltwater crayfish.  That's a sure enough big one though!  Do they commonly get that big down there?  They are some mighty fine eating, and many people prefer them over the Maine Lobster.

 Mmmmm Bugs!

Bugs are Good!!!

I too prefer them to Maine Lobster. They are very hard to find around here diving but when you do they are monsters like this one.

[Ernie]

Do they commonly get that big down there? 

That was by far the largest I have seen in 40 years here in New Zealand although I saw a Packhorse Cray about 35 years ago that had a tail at least 12 inches wide and was about 4 feet long.  I was told that it was delicious.

We used to, in the good old days, hook a sheep's head out of the offal pit, stuff it into a pair of old pantyhose, tie a rope onto it and chuck it off a the edge of a reef for half an hour, pull it out, pick off a couple of crays for a feed, boil them up in an old copper on the beach and pig out with a beer or two.  I haven't tried that for years, I hung up a sheep a couple of weeks ago, maybe I should try that again.

[Tom]

The do-gooders here have regulated us to the extent that you can't even fish with a rusty hook.

[Ernie]

The do-gooders here have regulated us to the extent that you can't even fish with a rusty hook.

Fair enough Tom.  My Mom always taught us that rusty hooks could give you lockjaw and that would be hardly fair to the poor fish.

[Jeff]

The fish like rusty hooks. The quicker they corrode and fall out after they break your line.

[WildDog]

The fish like rusty hooks. The quicker they corrode and fall out after they break your line.

For this reason I wont fish with stainless steel hooks.