Stopped for a spot of yabbieing on the way home from up north,130 nice yabbies in 2 hrs.
YUM-YUM
Takin ya chances I recon, property owners in WA would not be to happy about that, some nice ones there tho.
Life's full of taking chances,if i didn't take em someone else would've.
[its half the fun]
Meanwhile at the Blue Oyster Bar..
"Tho you come here often Thimon?"
"Ohhh I yust luv the atmosthere Sthefan - it's always crowded and I just luv chasin a sweet bit off tail!"
bloody poachers, we used to have a beautifully stocked dam, couple of times a year we had a fest of yabbies. Then the poachers started coming, ignoring the breading season and sure enough, very few ever since.
Pirrad, what you have done is theft. You cant be to bright if you are advertising the fact either. 
I agree with the last peple, people like you ruin it for every one (including your kids and grand kids one day)
I don't know yabbie laws.
I do know several folks have reported the post for posting "illegal activity".
If indeed, it is illegal, and it's removed, what has that achieved? Zip. So, I'm leaving it here for further discussion, under the idea that it will have educational value...
Play fair...
If your in SA then according to your fisheries for Cooper Creek, Diamantina River and Murray River Yabbies - 200 is the daily bag limit.
www.pir.sa.gov.au/fishing/fishing_limits
taking stock and/or produce off private property is stealing and is a criminal offense
i cant quote the w.a. act that it falls under but from my experience and dialog with the livestock squad after having 15k worth of livestock stolen i do know there are laws to protect the landowners. the subject of aquaculture came into the conversation with one of the detectives as i own and operated a marron property although my theft was related to cattle.
the detective mentioned how aquaculture theft was "killing the industry" by the amount of poaching going on in some areas of the state.
the ones in the image are yabbies and they breed all year round , they are mostly found in farm dams and for the vast majority of land owners are not part of the farms cash flow, just a treat. yabbies need to be harvested quite aggressive or else the catches are heavily numbered but small in yabie size. most dams that become barren of yabbies is caused by chemical spray drifts or algal blooms not from over harvesting.
i don't have an issue with pirrad and his poached yabbies, i have a mate who farm and the dams close to the main road sometime turn up free yabbie catch nets for them to use.. so it works both ways 
had theses been marron which are totally different to the yabbies species found in most dams my opinion would be far different and that i would hope for you to be prosecuted to the full extent of the law.[}:)]
My apologies to those i have offended,silly choice of topic heading!
Growing up in the Clare Valley area of south oz yabbying in creeks and dams was a regular pass time not always with property holders consent but we were also property owners with stocked dams that I'm sure others raided occasionally.[Were also the victims of having a truck load of sheep stolen ] When another dam was being built in the area it wouldn't take long and it would be seeded,Friday night pub talk would reveal quite often that a particular dam had been seeded by JO Blow and Fred Smith etc etc,or was good for a feed.
Where i caught these was in a fairly remote area[no excuses]i think from the dilapidated infrastructure around the dam and its proximity to the Alice-[Darwin ]train line it was built as a reservoir back in the steam train days.
Given the size and abundance i doubt that it gets fished very often and would like to add that i returned about 20-30 egg laden females for its future viability.
I thought marron was a WA phrase and yabbie sa/vic term?
A friend of mines Dad farms marron have said in the past that poaching is rife, has a shotgun and it gets used on a regular basis (not at people but just to scare them off) 
Hi Steve
Where did you catch them ?. Lake Hart ? 
Nice catch. That big one looks like a contender for a caption competition.
we tried that once in the south west of western australia.
my friend got caught shot with salt pallets ? and picked up bashed and left for dead on the side of the road.(lucky the people who caught him let him have his mobile)to contact or crew. -straight to hospital but mediated.- no police interaction....
To do that and then go onto a website and show your catch aka"poachers"is a kick in the balls.
grow up you probally have just pilfered some guys retirement fund .
dont poach out of private dams ffs there is plenty of areas in which to catch produce without poaching.
watch your back doing that **** .........the word POACH and repercussions exists.....
dont poach marron ... fulstop if you get caught you are forked
Good luck with the "poaching"?
poachers reward in our state(WA)=bashed beyond death if caught.
go get a dive ticket and catch some decent crayfish .. they dont taste like sheep and cow ****.
hope you enjoyed the ****e taste for the risk.
but make no mistake its illegal.Bt if you get caught poaching by farmers youl probally wish you had some police help...
these dude were feeding there yabbies kangaroos bodies (without heads)which had been pawned by drilled out hollow point 30/30 and 12 gauge solids. and your poaching king???????????????
a 30/30 would probally penetrate and explode house bricks at 200 metres
YOUR forkn crazy
THERE is o acceptance for poachers.
Couple of quick points on Yabbie breading (Vic and NSW at least, no idea about what they do further west or north);
- They dont bread all year, water temp must be above 15 and really around 20.
- Breeding cycle is about 40-50 days and I found pretty cyclic in our dams.
- Below about 15 degrees, they are pretty much in hybernation, meaning they risk being cleaned out of a dam if caught early or late winter (middle of winter you prob wont get any as they are in holes having sleeping parties)
Oh, and anyone who takes yabbies from someones dam without asking is a bloody mug. Most people would just say go for your life unless the dam had recently been harvested. Public rivers, dams etc check with fisheries for any limits.
