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pricey

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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 07 4:38 pm Post subject:
Sorry been at work, hope they were nice

Fee

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Posted: Sun Aug 05, 07 7:46 pm Post subject:

They were absolutely delicious

You don't get much meat off each though, do you! We had a few dead 'uns too, which we didn't eat, but only a few.

I preferred the claw meat to the tail (which were the only parts we were eating), but both were yummy, we'll definitely be catching some more in the future

Question now is, can I make a stock from the remains?

Oh, and we didn't eat the dark bits

I took a picture of them on the BBQ, will post tomorrow.

Didn't think to boil a few for comparison, just boiled them for between 1 and 2 mins then flung them on the BBQ.

pricey

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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 07 6:33 pm Post subject:

Simon wrote:

Mmmmm. I may be able to get hold of some. A friend of ours has a waterfall in his front garden. He has caught crayfish in the small pool at the bottom. Pricey???

Nice pics by the way Fee

Mate I am up for that, can we go on the first Sunday

pricey

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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 07 6:34 pm Post subject:

Fee wrote:

They were absolutely delicious

Question now is, can I make a stock from the remains?

Oh, and we didn't eat the dark bits

I took a picture of them on the BBQ, will post tomorrow.

Didn't think to boil a few for comparison, just boiled them for between 1 and 2 mins then flung them on the BBQ.

Dark bits? come on where is the pics

Fee

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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 07 7:01 pm Post subject:
I just meant, we only ate the tail and claw meat. Anyway, some piccies...

Blue Sky

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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 07 7:03 pm Post subject:
Now I am hungry again.

Fee

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Posted: Mon Aug 06, 07 7:06 pm Post subject:
Mmmmm...tasty they be. Anywhere in the New Forest we can harvest any for the DS picnic, Pricey?

skedone

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Location: essex inbetween a blue bit and a green bit

Posted: Wed Aug 08, 07 3:35 pm Post subject:

yes mate u can use the shells etc for stocks or a really nice oil like oaster oil just oven bake the shells break them up , put them in extra virgin olive oil with a bit of garlic and chill leave for about 4 weeks shaking every day or two check for colour then u know flovour has been taken on by the oil the longer u leave it the better then strain it and away u go . very nice indead.

garlic and chill can be changed for your liking or just use the shells on there own

Fee

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Posted: Wed Aug 08, 07 3:45 pm Post subject:
Oooooooooooooooh, will remember that next time!

vickersdc

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Location: Surrey / Hampshire Border.

Posted: Sun Apr 18, 10 7:37 pm Post subject:
We've just been down to the River Wey at Guildford for a paddle, and got chatting to a guy who had six traps out for crayfish. So enamoured were we with the thought of free food that I've completed the relevant EA form to get a licence. But what I actually wanted to know was... how do you go about killing them? He mentioned something about driving a knife between their eyes..?

pricey

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Posted: Sun Apr 18, 10 8:04 pm Post subject:

vickersdc wrote:

how do you go about killing them? He mentioned something about driving a knife between their eyes..?

Just pop them in boiling water for 5 mins, no need to kill them first. If you really feel the need to, drive a knife in half way between the eyes and the tail, but in my opinion it takes longer for them to die that way.

sean
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Posted: Sun Apr 18, 10 8:07 pm Post subject:
Or stick them in the freezer for half an hour before you do the boiling water thing.

pricey

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Posted: Sun Apr 18, 10 10:24 pm Post subject:

sean wrote:

Or stick them in the freezer for half an hour before you do the boiling water thing.

Slower than the knife, just pop them in the water.

Drewsephine

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Posted: Sun Apr 18, 10 11:00 pm Post subject: Re: Take a piece of string, a bit of bacon rind and a rock..

Fee wrote:

Turns out we should have had a permit, but we spoke to a nice chap at the Environment Agency, and he was more than happy that we were catching them, but said for next time, probably best to sort out a permit.

Are you sure ?
I've been looking on the website and it only says anything about a licence when trapping.
Seeing as how you weren't using a trap I don't see why you need one.
Also he couldn't have done anything as

Environment Agency wrote:

Under the Wildife and Countryside Act 1981 (as amended), it is an offence
to release, or allow to escape, any non-native species into the wild in the UK
except under licence.

Seeing as how you'd already caught them he'd be comitting an offence in telling you to let them go

Drewsephine

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Posted: Sun Apr 18, 10 11:03 pm Post subject:

Having said that apparently its illegal for you to keep them as well

Environment Agency wrote:

The Prohibition of Keeping of Live Fish (Crayfish) Order 1996 (as amended),
made under the Import of Live Fish (England and Wales) Act 1980, makes it
an offence to keep any crayfish in England and Wales, except under licence
(with specific exemption areas for signal crayfish).

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