This lady is kindly illustrating the art of catching yabbies for bait (she may not have known she was doing that....) Yabbies live in tunnels under muddy sand - they used to be prolific in many areas. They are fun to catch using a yabby pump to suck them out of their tunnels and make super bait for whiting and bream. Unfortunately, their numbers have diminished as water frontage development removes mangroves and replaces them with canals. Sadly, change isn't always for the good....
We're on the same page re 'development' Rob. The 1960s Club of Rome was right, the world is over-populated and our enviroment is paying the price. As for yabbies I've only known using wire-cage traps with bait, or for kids a bit of meat on a fishing-line, never seen this sort of thing except for sand-worms.
Too bad the "Multiplicity" composite challenge is over- this would have been a good contribution to that! Great sequence of your unsuspecting yabbie demonstrator!
Hi everybody - boy was this confusing! Errol has now told me that we Queenslanders are strange creatures who have Yabbies as bait and Lobbies for food. Whereas the rest of Australia has Yabbies for food and I don't know what for bait. I found some photos of both on Google and have put them up on the next image - I think I've got it sorted now - thanks for all of your feed-back - it was so weird to realize what the language difference was - just between states. Cheers Rob
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