Wanted: Crap old rims

Do you have some old rims lying around that, realistically, you'll never use?

Any size wanted. They just have to be (reasonably) round.

The heavier the better (I want to make nets to catch crayfish).

Can pick up Central London.

A few quid, a beer, or will pay in crayfish.

Careful...

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out of interest - where can you go crayfish fishing acqui en londres? and what does a cray fish net look like?

Look in the doorway of LMNH, there's a pile of unwanted wheels there always, on your right inside the gates. And ask at other friendly neighbourhood bikeshops for cast offs.

Sounds like fun! Do you need a license to catch crayfish?

Thanks for the tip Skully. I'd been looking for an excuse to get up there and get myself acquainted.

You do need an Environment Agency permit, but I think they're pretty relaxed about it as long as you are catching the right sort, and using the right kind of apparatus.

Apparently, the rivers are teeming with the blighters. Had planned a trip to the River Lee or Grand Union canal. Could make for an interesting ride!

Guide here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/georgemonbiot/gallery/2009/sep/30/george-monbiot-crayfish

And useful info attached.

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• CR1_Form[1].pdf
• Crayfish_Advice_2010[1].pdf

if you do head up there some time i'd be interested in having a look see / joining you for an afternoon ?

friends in france have escrevisse in their lake / stream have always fancied banqueting on the little suckers

*nb i live very close to the river lee and have some spare rims going

Sounds good dicki. Will drop you a line when I've got my house in order re: permits.

This sounds a right laugh. Count me in - if you're making a 'mob' of it

Let me know place and date(s)

Mmmmm, crayfish!

I had fun catching them from a tiny sparkling stream in Serbia two summers ago. We used a line and hook, with live grasshoppers as bait. They just wouldn't let go so you land em on the bank of the river. But it was just for fun, we didn't eat them. They just crawled back in the stream.

will you be using a net with some rotting fish in
a la lobster traps ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK4_U-nmXyc

I had softshell crawdaddies once, they were fucking delicious.

Planned to use fish heads and scraps from the butcher. Anything I can get my hands on basically.

Looking to build nets weekend of 29/30 Jan, then have the expedition late Feb. Will be in touch.

I've caught many in the London area, including a huge one in the Serpentine that I took home and cooked. Apparently nightswimmers in the Serpentine have to be careful not to tread on them, as they come up onto the tarmac shore on warm summer nights. And I've heard tell that there's a chap who runs a cafe on the Edgware Road who traps them and serves them up to his customers. The New River up near Hoddesdon/Broxbourne has loads and the water is so clear and shallow that you can see them wandering around on the river bed. And the chub and perch in some of the rivers around Bedfordshire are getting very fat by eating lots of these crayfish.

I've got a few at home, dented but round enough for nets - will gladly swap for a supper's worth of crayfish! I'm in Hackney?

I have one that's a bit bent and scratched from when I had a fight with a van. It's in Balham.

It's 700c, off a 2004 fuji track. So if crayfish have any appreciation of track bikes, I think they'll be rather pleased.

This is interesting, OP or anyone planning one in the near future?

would be interesting to hear how dumps got on
there were never any pictures of a tub of boiling crayfish