Rare Infection from Eating Crayfish - Health Videos - redOrbit

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Well, I still wouldn't consider eating anything from the local Stockport area rivers, crayfish or not : heavy metals, sewage etc.
I did try a local trout once. Ughhh! Never again.
I am now reluctant to take my butties closer than a dozen yards.

Maybe a fresh sea trout would not be so contaminated, but I don't propose to find out... if I ever caught one that is.

Crayfish!!!!!
Yes you can eat crayfish,but first you need a licence to collect them.
You need to trap a few to make a good meal.Now you have your catch at home still alive,put them into a large tank,bucket or bin with fresh clean water for 48hrs, this will purge them and they wont taste muddy.
Now to dispatch them you can put them in the freezer for a few hours or
if like me take a large pot of boiling salted water and tip them in!!!!
Bring back to the boil and cook for about 10mins,then run them under cold
runing water till cold.
(They will have changed colour to an orangey/red)
Now break the tail off and chuck the rest in the bin.Peel the shell off the
tails then on the underside of the tail meat you will see a black vane take
that out.You can now use the meat as you would use cooked Prawns,Lobster etc.
Hope this helps?

I read its best to keep them Im fresh water for a week and feed them on potato skins and garlic for added flavor

I do own 3 good sized traps but then I learnt about the EA rules, so there still as new?

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I can't say that I have had too much cray trouble over the two years in which I have been fishing the local rivers. Shortly before that there were those prolonged heavy floods. I do wonder whether the crays were battered into submission by those water conditions, as suggestions are that the years before were very bad with many crays.

Lucky man,
The Kennet has loads!!!Clubs all allong the river let trapers take them out.
Still i saw on spring watch that Otters like them but that is another story.