(gunshot echoing)
(wind blowing)
(rain falling)
- [Voice over] Just thought I'd document this.
I literally have about a quarter of a bucket
full of these suckers now.
I think I've got this whole thing down to a fine art.
I have checked every single one of them,
none of them have eggs.
So they're all fair catch, fair game.
Must be a quarter of a bucket full.
It is just an orgy of freshwater crayfish in there.
Let's just grab one out, see if we can safely grab one,
there he is, look at that, look at the claws on that sucker.
I think here's the biggest one, here.
Just over here, see if I can grab him out,
without getting bitten.
This one here, this is the big one.
Oh look, he's actually hanging on to a little one.
Look at that.
That's the biggest one, there.
Look at those nippers.
Look at him, look at that claw.
That is one monster of a claw.
And look at that, that little baby one
is still hanging on there, look at that.
I'll have to start separating them,
because they are going to war in there.
We're gonna need more buckets.
So here we've got the bucket of small ones,
hopefully you can see them there.
Here's the bucket of big ones, here.
See that Sweety, picking that up on the camera?
Is the big ones, so what I have to do,
is just put all those big ones, we're gonna need three.
We're gonna need a new size here.
So that one's probably a medium size, this one's a big one.
Be careful, hopefully I don't get bitten here.
That's probably a big one.
There's a small one.
Another small one.
All the small ones into the small bucket.
And this bucket in the middle's kind of a medium size.
Here they are.
Size large.
Large suckers.
See if we can find that real big one again, where is he?
Where's the biggest one of all?
I think it's right there, I think it's that one there.
Get him out.
There he is, look at that claw.
That is a killer claw, so he's picking up,
you got it on camera?
Just checking underneath, there's no eggs--
- [Woman] Very nice.
- You wanna eat this one, sweety?
- [Woman] Yes, I want to eat that, wow.
It's yummy.
- One thing about crayfish, freshwater crayfish and yabbies,
is they always have one claw bigger than the other,
and it's his left claw that's the killer.
So I definitely can't keep him inside
the bucket with the small ones,
cuz he'll just massacre them.
Actually, just keep him with this one.
- [Woman] Oh, I have lots of food!
- I think this is more a medium size one,
so we'll just chuck him in the medium size bucket.
So there we have it, three sizes.
Size small, size medium, and size large.
Oh, there's a big spider there, just runnin' across the,
across the ground.
Now we have it probably, it must be about 30 yabbies.
(sighs)
Food for the next few days.
- [Woman] Yummy.
- Okay, so it's now quarter to midnight.
I'm back down at the lake.
I have an empty bucket.
Just coming back down here to empty one of the traps again.
Just coming down, just to pull the traps in.
There's the rope right there, wrapped around a rock.
So all I wanna do is release that rope from the rock.
The camera's gonna get a bit shaky, here,
cuz this is not easy to film, but pull that in.
And look at that.
Another two in there.
Looks like they're only the medium sized ones, though.
Go over here to the bucket.
Yeah, definitely nothing special about these ones,
they're just little medium sized guys.
I'll probably just put them back in there,
cuz we've already got too many yabbies.
Of course, there's no water in that bucket.
(bucket rattling)
(water splashing)
(wind blowing)
Another trap just over here,
I'm just gonna have to climb across
a couple of these boulders, here.
Little bit sketchy.
So again, here's my rock,
to tie the rope down.
And as we pull it in, and bang.
Probably just what we'd call sort of medium,
medium sized yabby in there.
So just pulled in another trap, here.
And I'm really quite surprised, there's no yabbies in there.
There's actually a damn fish.
And that's not what we're trying to catch.
So I'll just throw him back in.
Not even sure of the species type.
When I get back to town I'll just ask.
Local fishing shop, local fishermen.
There he goes, back home.
Hopefully he doesn't get eaten by a yabby.
So I'm back at this big boulder again.
I just pulled in trap number four again.
And we have another couple of yabbies in there.
Only one medium size that we will keep.
(bucket tumbling)
There's that medium size one.
(water splashing)
Drop him in.
And over here, we have this very small one.
So it's not really responsible to keep these small ones.
Because you have to give them a chance
to grow up into big ones.
So when you start keeping everything you catch,
you really are over-fishing the area.
So let's just release him.
Off he goes.
So here we are, trying to catch yabbies.
Just got a piece of lamb, lamb rib as bait.
The problem is, sometimes they steal your bait,
we've made this anti-theft device.
Hopefully the yabbies won't be able to steal the bait.
All it is, is a piece of gutter guard.
And a piece of coat hanger.
(grunting)
Push the bait in.
(wind blowing)
Make sure you're focusing on here.
Here.
Now that the bait is inside, I just push the wire down.
Fold it over.
This way, I can leave the trap
in the water for hours and hours.
Hopefully there's no way
they're going to be able to steal that bait.
I must admit, that's probably not the best one.
I think this other one here's
been put in probably a bit better.
Let's have a look at that.
The meat is right inside, there.
Just hold this trap up, so you can see it on the bottom.
We actually have some spare bait.
Four pieces, just in case we do lose some of our lamb chop.
(birds singing)
- That's good.
- [Man] Good spot, good spot. Perfect spot.
(water rushing)
I actually see one in the trap there.
Not sure if the camera is picking this up,
but there is definitely one in there.
(rain falling)
Just put the camera here.
(birds singing)
Just sneaking up from behind, here.
(water splashing)
We've got one.
There he is.
(wind blowing)
(rap music)