S-Kippy has it spot on. If where you fish there are none of these crayfish be grateful. They are insidious, they are vermin. They dig holes in the bank and weaken it, when whoever owns the banks eventually realise that they have an enormous task and cost to maintain the river banks then they might do something about them?!!! Signal crayfish can make legering virtually impossible.
I roach fish a quiet beautiful stretch of the Kennet, there are some decent roach there. I have had some good catches of quality roach on the leger but other times it is impossible because of the crayfish. After the 17th crayfish (my river crayfish single day record) it does become a little wearing to say the least. On float tackle it is possible to catch 40 roach in a day with around one in seven being a quality roach.
Attracting crayfish out of the swim does work (for a while) by throwing in crayfish bait a bit upstream, what I need is a crayfish bait which is cheap and does not break down too quickly. Any clever ideas?
I roach fish a quiet beautiful stretch of the Kennet, there are some decent roach there. I have had some good catches of quality roach on the leger but other times it is impossible because of the crayfish. After the 17th crayfish (my river crayfish single day record) it does become a little wearing to say the least. On float tackle it is possible to catch 40 roach in a day with around one in seven being a quality roach.
Attracting crayfish out of the swim does work (for a while) by throwing in crayfish bait a bit upstream, what I need is a crayfish bait which is cheap and does not break down too quickly. Any clever ideas?
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