Ahoy thar landlubbers

Check this PDF for post codes http://www.defra.gov.uk/corporate/docs/forms/fish/cray2.pdf

My advice: Never trust a hippy.

You aren't allowed to take the white-clawed crayfish out of the water, that's the problem.
If you do you're not allowed to return them to the water because you don't know if they have crayfish plague.
saying that, I go crayfishing on occasion.
It's highly exciting.
I find that they love a good chicken carcass, or a salmon head. On my last trip I hauled out about fifteen of the suckers. Careful though - they're viciously nippy.

If you leave them in clean water in a bucket in your garage/on board boat for 24 hours or so they should be purged of any canal nastiness. I found that chilling them for a while doesn't really work so good - when I stabbed them in the back of the head they still tried to grab the knife, poor sods. The boiling water method actually seemed quicker, to be honest. The shock of the plunge seems to kill them instantly. Salt the water heavily though to keep the meat firm.

How does the rent compare to a conventional flat?

Oh, and always cover the bucket they are in, and weigh down the lid. They'll crawl on top of each other to get out, and they will scuttle all over the boat if you're not extremely careful, and they have a nip like a pair of pliers.

would love to know how the rent stacks up against a flat, you'll be sorted once global warming kicks in and drowns everything else!

Could always offset the rent by selling crayfish sandwiches?

pffft, rent money yawn. We want more tales of Crawfish catchin'.

When I was in Serbia I fished loads of tiny ones from a really small mountain stream, using crickets as bait, on a line, just flinging them onto the bank when they start tucking into the bait. We put them back, it was just a fun thing to do with the kids. They weren't worth eating.

COME ON THEN, I'LL 'AVE YA

YouTube- Gippsland Spiny freshwater Crayfish caught in the Highlands Victoria

Spunky fucker.

I took my crayfish pot on holiday to Robin Hood's Bay last year.
It was a good move.

Day one. Lobster and velvet swimmer crabs. Small but delicious!

Day two. Before:

And after:

Delicious with crusty bread and crisp white wine!

Blimey! Good haul lucy.

In answer to the rent questions it's quite hard to compare as I need to have somewhere that will do a 3 month rental. This rules most places out apart from serviced apartments. In birmingham the cheapest of those I could find were 55 quid a night.

Against that the boat works out about the same. It's 950 pcm but this drops to 850 if I have it for longer than 3 months. Plus another 200 for the mooring. So about the price of a decent 1 bed flat in london.

^^That's awesome. Did you have a boat? What did you do, go and drop the pot where the locals have marked theirs?
I love the tractor that pulls the catch up the hill with a trailer full of writhing crustaceons. It ran over my toes once because I was gawping. He wasn't very sympethetic. I was 12.

You will need:

1. One or more lobster/crayfish pots. (I used two - easier to handle. I use the collapsible variety)
   
2. Long nylon string.
   
3. a plastic milk bottle for each pot.
   
4. Bait.
   
5. A tide book.
   
6. A bucket.
   
   

First consult the tide book for the time of low tide in the evening.
Find a part of the shore with exposed rocks when the tide is out.
Tie one end of 30 feet of the string to the handle of the sealed milk bottle, the other end to the pot.
Bait the pot.
Throw the pot out into about 3 feet of water. When the tide comes in you can see your perky little milk bottle bobbing on the waves, and you can dream about what is happening underwater!
Find the time of low tide in the morning. It's sometimes VERY early, but it is VERY worth it.
Wear trainers that you don't mind getting soaked, because you sometimes have to wade to reach your milk bottles. Gently haul the twine in until you can see your catch!
Open the pots, and CAREFULLY lift out everything edible into your bucket (have the bucket half full of seawater)
Carefully release inedible things into the sea.
Take home your catch, boil it in salted water, eat it!

You catch way more than you bargain for. I caught fish, eels, poisonous weaver fish, edible crabs, small lobsters (chuck them back!) shore crabs (green and not worth keeping) Blennies and gobies.
A great way of finding marine life!

YouTube- Cockleshell Bay

Satan holidays here, nice.

Ha! Might change my name to General Neptune.

Seaman..........

More advice; don't do this.

Whilst working in a travel agents after college I booked a group of agrics on a stag w/end in Holland. They had two barges. They returned early after setting one on fire, trying to put it out they managed to ram and sink it, they also holed the other, it too sank.

Best holiday insurance clame ever. Total damage was about £35k.

They really are joyous things aren't they? Used to have narrowboat holidays as a kid, there aren't many better way to see the countryside than puttering along at 4 mph, no roads, no noise just peace and quiet

I found the tranquility was occasionally interrupted by the sound of a small child drowning.

dont try and fix shelves below the waterline :(

This thread is ace! Just sayin'.

I'd love to live on a Narrow boat, however I'm not sure how I'd get on with one- is being over 6 foot a disadvantage?

How many bikes can one put on the walls if also needing to store a very large number of books?

You'd need this.

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