Now on to the Facts! 1.) Although they live in water, they have the ability to survive droughts for many years by burrowing into river beds and remaining sedentary until the rains return! 2.) Yabbies molt (shed their exoskeleton – shell) numerous times during their life. The new shell matches the existing water conditions.. These yabbies are large enough to survive and ready to breed. You will need to add at least 100 yabbies, but the more you add the better your chances of succeess. Eating yabbies. Yabbies should be cooked in a large pan of rapidly boiling, salted water. Cook each batch for 4-5 minutes. They are then ready to eat.

In this video I caught a small feed of Yabbies from a private dam using meat in open top lift nets Yabbie nets.- Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/HaydenWilso.. Just tie a piece of meat on a bit of string, leave it in the water for a while then pull it in and net the yabby holding on to the meat. We never got tired of doing this. In recent times different nets and bait traps can be bought for catching yabbies and these work well…. and the meat on a piece of string works well too..