Yabby hunting

Yabby!

Much of my time up in the mountains was spent doing absolutely nothing except relaxing but we did get out into the bush on a few occasions to hunt down the mighty yabby. Yabbies are a freshwater crustacean which frequent all of the streams and waterholes up in the Blue Mountains.


To catch a yabby, one must fill a stocking with the most rotten foul-smelling offal that you can find, tie on a rock to sink the evil mixture and attach a piece of string. The whole lot is then lobbed into a pool near a likely looking crevice or overhang. Before long the yabby will emerge and grab onto the gift and if you're really slow in pulling on the string, he won't let go and you'll be able to slip a net under him and you'll have yourself an angry little creature waving his claws at you.

The art of yabbying

Emily strikes yabby gold

A small one with the stocking full of stinking goo