I just came across this video of yours Paul, didn't notice that you uploaded it, and I absolutely loved watching it!! I like how you said 'free food', and what a buzz to collect and cook the catch, 2 thumbs up from me! 👍🏾👍🏾
This is probably the best thing I’ve ever seen on TH-cam. Going cray fishing for the first time this year. Loads of great tips. Thanks. Nice Lee cameo, classic Essex geezers. Nice one brother.
Agreed, I noticed so many in a local river and I applied to the EA and they said there wasn’t a significant population in my area 😂 suppose they know best…….
@@simongreen7021 Just get them out mate! If your house was broken into I promise you there will not be police on scene with CID doing fingerprints and an ensuing investigation. Be a true libertarian and do what you think is right. We have too many little committees in this country. Be a committee of one and get yourself some invader lunch!
Paul, you are an English eccentric and a genius. I have two traps, excited to try them in the river this week, thanks for giving me the knowlege i need to prepare the crayfish. Best wishes!
- That tip about twisting the tail fan to pull the gut line out was gold! And honestly by the end when you were flouring them up and frying them off my stomach was grumbling. Haha. Could have really shown that sandwich a good time. 😆👍🏻🍽🦐🦞
Haha cheers John, I learnt that from watching other TH-camrs, it's what TH-cam was made for, little tips like that help others learn, much like every video you've ever produced!!
Hi Paul hope you and your family are well mate , couldn't sleep from midnight on till 3 am so I decided to watch a load of your vids again.. your video's are interesting and funny at times. I like a person who is down to earth and honest. Always be yourself and you have my respect I feel we are lot alike Paul. I live in the West of Ireland a a place called Oranmore 7km from Galway. I grew up in Upminster in Essex and I loved it. Paul remember you did an adult video towards the end of the year , Please please could you do another one this year. It was all the swearing you'd cut out . You had me in tears from laughing .
I live behind this lake, and could literally throw a stone in it. I take my children up there regularly and we get loads out. Used to be a crayfish stock lake. Cooked a load on Friday….
Hi mate, I watched your vid last year while researching catching and cooking crays, got the same stove from go outdoors you have cause of your vid and yeah, one year on and I'm doing my own catch and cook vids and loving it. I would highly recommend you find a clear running stream with em in and try them, they are so much tastier than from a lake, they don't have that after taste of dirt. Awesome vid mate, thank you for the inspiration 👍
Dreaded outdoors, thanks for the kind words, I'm glad that I've inspired you to get out there & do it for yourself, I will check your vids out too, thanks, Paul.
@@shorefishingessex If you email the environment agency. And ask the question about the use of nets to catch crayfish. They will inform you that if its not a licenced way of catching crayfish then it's illegal and you can possibly be prosecuted if caught. These are their words not mine.
Its one of my favorite things to do in summer. I catch them up here in the west midlands. Small river at the back of my house is full of them. You get some decent sized ones. I think its down to the fact no one catches them so they get to grow so big. Roll on summer so I can get back out there 😁 great vid
Just found your awesome channel. Great honest video, love the way that you tell it how it is! Looking forward to watching more of your videos mate. Thanks for sharing. Atb. Take care, Steve. 👍👍
Well done you. Good British enterprise with those damn invasive beasts. I thought at first that your method was a bit overkill but not now, having seen the whole show. A fantastic feast virtually free. Go Outdoors to the rescue yet again.
You sir are brilliant! That lake is a goldmine. This is a really excellent video...well done! Also, that's a great cleaning tip, thanks! Have you ever thought about selling them? I wish I had a lake like that over here. Pickle those little fish. Make your own sardines.
Why Dale, thank you sir! It's a privately owned lake & the owner doesn't like people to take the fish out of there but the crawfish, now there's an idea!!
Just came across your video.....excellent content! One of your commentators recommends you try catching them in a clear-running stream.....I suggest the River Roding upstream of Buckhurst Hill where the river runs fairly quick and clean (or used to) over gravel. There were a lot of freshwater mussels upstream of Chigwell Lane too. That was my fishing ground when I was a boy. The M11 runs through the valley there nowadays so access is trickier now. Ps I live in Australia now, shortly to head up to the tropics. Keep up the good work 🤗
Ingenious name sir, well done!! Fished that stretch of the Roding a lot in the past & yes I've had crayfish there too, don't fish the Roding much anymore as I've moved further out into Essex now but I do get back occasionally, enjoy the tropics!!
Paul, crayfish trapping licences are free mate, just go to the EA website, fill one in and boom, youre in. Nice one buddy. Just remember its an offence to take em away live...…..risk of reintroducing them to unaffected waters....if there are any left!! Swainiac
Didn't know you couldn't take em home live. Where I live, it's perfectly fine. Makes it easy to get a crawdad boil going Louisiana style with shrimp, sausage, corn, and potatoes.
I like fishing for all sorts of aquatic creatures & mainly self taught. I like your video, I've never seen crayfish cleaned like that with the tail. Beats purging them when you don't have a lot of water to use
USA- southern Oregon and going again for crawfish- we have native signal and 3-4 invasive s now; ballast water fro aisa and idiots that have them for bait or house fish tanks go out and dump them where ever and they attach to boats and lines and move.
Fantastic video. License & net ready I'm off to catch some of me own. Could I possbily get the receipe for the 'Panko'? seems like it could be bread crumbs but have never heard of it. Cheers alot
Thomas thanks, you can buy panko in most supermarkets or you could make your own by coarsely grating leftover bread, spreading evenly on a baking tray & letting them dry out in warming down oven, good luck my friend!
Lived all my life in a crayfish paradise - Texas. Of course, we purge them and cook them whole with a bit of seasoning. Also, fried and lots of other ways. Cheers,
SORRY CAPS WONT TURN OF - JUST WATCHED A GUY FROM USA DOING THIS. HE ADDED SALT TO THE CRAYS AND ADDED COLD WATER FOR FIRST CLEAN, THE MUCK THAT CAME OFF WHEN SALT ADDED WAS SURPRISING
I love your letteral thinking brother . Plus i think you are fishing rather than trapping , which is what the license is required for . And as you already have a fishing licence, hey presto .
It looks like you're putting all your older videos back on Paul, good on you mate. A bit of thousand Island dressing or a sweet chili dipping sauce would have made your taste buds drool, a bit like you made mine do. Going back through all of your videos as a kidney stone is making its slow journey through my tubes and it's not conducive for stalking deer today.
Tony Hobbs sorry to hear about you having to pass stones, I had a similar experience a couple of years ago & I can confirm that it's bloody painful!! Hope you get back to normal soon & yes, I wish I had some sweet chilli with that Po'boy!!
@@shorefishingessex Hi Paul, just finished a 300 mile round trip to see when my Urologist was gonna move this stone. After a couple of xrays, he informed me that he's got to remove them soon, like tomorrow. We settled for Monday as stuffs happening here on the coast over the weekend and I can put up with one stuck stone until then. He said OK but, there's a lot more than one. Anyway, Monday is blasting day then back out in the forest as the oceans bad due to a severe wind storm for a few days.
I have to ask, why so much processing. Salt water purge, live boil, add corn, onions, mushrooms, sausage, swamp dust. Grab a beer pinch tails, suck heads, eat till falling over. Otherwise, love your video. :-)
To catch lobster on a rod. Put a treble hook on and a small gold hook the smaller gold hook the better put a square piece of bait on the trebel and put a tiny bit on the gold hook. Cart it to a stand of sea weed in the sea kelp. Wait a while it always picks the small bit up you eindvin a you have a lobster
Only over regulated England would make people get a permit to fish for an INVASIVE SPECIES. The need to control everyone hurts them as the Signal is decimating waterways in the UK.
There should be a National Campaign to encourage people to catch and cook signal crayfish to try and reduce the population. Sadly i cant eat any kind of fish but they look so nice!!
that trick of pulling its digestive track out works on cooked ones to bad about the rest of the crayfish. if you boil them hole use a lot of spuce, will kill off any parisites
I just came across this video of yours Paul, didn't notice that you uploaded it, and I absolutely loved watching it!! I like how you said 'free food', and what a buzz to collect and cook the catch, 2 thumbs up from me! 👍🏾👍🏾
Cheers Mike, I would cook the heads & suck them out but I'm not sure how clean that lake is!!
This is probably the best thing I’ve ever seen on TH-cam.
Going cray fishing for the first time this year. Loads of great tips. Thanks. Nice Lee cameo, classic Essex geezers. Nice one brother.
Andy thank you!
Fantastic video Sir made my mouth water
Why do we need permits for these? If anything there should be a reward.
Agreed, I noticed so many in a local river and I applied to the EA and they said there wasn’t a significant population in my area 😂 suppose they know best…….
@@simongreen7021 Just get them out mate! If your house was broken into I promise you there will not be police on scene with CID doing fingerprints and an ensuing investigation. Be a true libertarian and do what you think is right. We have too many little committees in this country. Be a committee of one and get yourself some invader lunch!
Proper straight to the point guy. Proper enjoyed watching too.
Yusaf thank you!
Paul, you are an English eccentric and a genius. I have two traps, excited to try them in the river this week, thanks for giving me the knowlege i need to
prepare the crayfish. Best wishes!
- That tip about twisting the tail fan to pull the gut line out was gold! And honestly by the end when you were flouring them up and frying them off my stomach was grumbling. Haha. Could have really shown that sandwich a good time. 😆👍🏻🍽🦐🦞
Haha cheers John, I learnt that from watching other TH-camrs, it's what TH-cam was made for, little tips like that help others learn, much like every video you've ever produced!!
Great stuff....just some butter n seasoning in your pan mate ...done a couple of mins 😋....they don't need all that fancy stuff....yum can't wait 😋
Wow, talk about perseverance. Way to hang in there till the reward. Good video in spite of the crappy weather. Keep em coming.
Superb mate I have a small lake close to me m going to try, great enthusiasm, subscribed keep em coming mate.
Hi Paul hope you and your family are well mate , couldn't sleep from midnight on till 3 am so I decided to watch a load of your vids again.. your video's are interesting and funny at times. I like a person who is down to earth and honest. Always be yourself and you have my respect I feel we are lot alike Paul. I live in the West of Ireland a a place called Oranmore 7km from Galway. I grew up in Upminster in Essex and I loved it. Paul remember you did an adult video towards the end of the year , Please please could you do another one this year. It was all the swearing you'd cut out . You had me in tears from laughing .
Lol I'm not sure I have enough footage mate, I will do another one when I have enough! Promise!
Good to see an easy way to cook them, our waters up in North Yorkshire are stuffed with them
Nice video - inspired to catch ‘em and eat ‘em 💪. They are good just boiled and then with some lemon mayo but I like your crumbed and fried idea 👌
Thanks, well worth the effort I think!
Tramp Scampi. Very good. Nice video 😂
I live behind this lake, and could literally throw a stone in it.
I take my children up there regularly and we get loads out. Used to be a crayfish stock lake. Cooked a load on Friday….
Definitely needed sweet chilli. Awesome video
Great video mate, well worth watching
Cheers for the very informative and entertaining video.
great video, recently caught 8 big ones at a lake [ 7 are being stored in dechlorinated tap water to eat and the biggest one is in a display aquarium]
Hi mate, I watched your vid last year while researching catching and cooking crays, got the same stove from go outdoors you have cause of your vid and yeah, one year on and I'm doing my own catch and cook vids and loving it. I would highly recommend you find a clear running stream with em in and try them, they are so much tastier than from a lake, they don't have that after taste of dirt. Awesome vid mate, thank you for the inspiration 👍
Dreaded outdoors, thanks for the kind words, I'm glad that I've inspired you to get out there & do it for yourself, I will check your vids out too, thanks, Paul.
@@shorefishingessex If you email the environment agency. And ask the question about the use of nets to catch crayfish.
They will inform you that if its not a licenced way of catching crayfish then it's illegal and you can possibly be prosecuted if caught.
These are their words not mine.
Awesome video! I'll definitely be trying this
Its one of my favorite things to do in summer. I catch them up here in the west midlands. Small river at the back of my house is full of them. You get some decent sized ones. I think its down to the fact no one catches them so they get to grow so big. Roll on summer so I can get back out there 😁 great vid
just wondering which river that is?
Great video .Tasty wild food and ridding the lake of an invasive species.Your subscribership is rapidly growing..well done
neil hellens thank you!
Just found your awesome channel.
Great honest video, love the way that you tell it how it is!
Looking forward to watching more of your videos mate.
Thanks for sharing.
Atb.
Take care,
Steve. 👍👍
Why thank you steve!
Happy New year my friend hope you and your family have a great new year and all the best mate 👍 and thank you for your tube channel 😊
Stephen thanks my friend!
Brilliant Vid, and I can say I was dribbling whilst you was eatin'...!
lol Philip, thanks!!
Heard about you on Smash Fishing's TH-cam channel. Love to watch catch and cook videos! Really enjoyed watching you today! Keep up the great work!
Valerie Irwin thanks, glad you enjoyed it!
Great video!!! What s brilliant use of resource!!! A little Lemon with it maybe🤔👍🤗.. Brilliant!!!!!!!!
Simon thanks, I always forget the lemons!
😂☝️👍Love it!!! Keep up the good work
Absolutely brilliant, love it 👍👍👍
Cheers Dave!
Well done you. Good British enterprise with those damn invasive beasts. I thought at first that your method was a bit overkill but not now, having seen the whole show. A fantastic feast virtually free. Go Outdoors to the rescue yet again.
williegunn thanks, glad you watched it to the end!
They made me feel hungry. I bet they're really nice with garlic butter or mayo. Good job!
James I bet they are! thanks!
Great content, keep 'em coming!
Jane Foster thanks, will try!
You sir are brilliant! That lake is a goldmine. This is a really excellent video...well done! Also, that's a great cleaning tip, thanks! Have you ever thought about selling them? I wish I had a lake like that over here. Pickle those little fish. Make your own sardines.
Why Dale, thank you sir! It's a privately owned lake & the owner doesn't like people to take the fish out of there but the crawfish, now there's an idea!!
Just came across your video.....excellent content! One of your commentators recommends you try catching them in a clear-running stream.....I suggest the River Roding upstream of Buckhurst Hill where the river runs fairly quick and clean (or used to) over gravel. There were a lot of freshwater mussels upstream of Chigwell Lane too. That was my fishing ground when I was a boy. The M11 runs through the valley there nowadays so access is trickier now. Ps I live in Australia now, shortly to head up to the tropics. Keep up the good work 🤗
Ingenious name sir, well done!! Fished that stretch of the Roding a lot in the past & yes I've had crayfish there too, don't fish the Roding much anymore as I've moved further out into Essex now but I do get back occasionally, enjoy the tropics!!
Yeah! that cray bagette looked right tasty mate good vids like em a lot.
Cheers John.
Thought you were going to give half to your pal. 😂
Wonderful
Because of you my computer monitor is stuffed (I was licking it when you were eating that AND drooling)
David Storton Lol!!
The “token gesture” comment well made me laugh. Good clip thanks. Will definitely have a go at this
Poor Knight why not?
Interesting stuff, looking forward to more.
Mark Williams Sea Angling sorry for the late reply but I've just got back from my hols, I'm looking forward to finding time to make more vids, thanks!
Looked really good well done
Paul, crayfish trapping licences are free mate, just go to the EA website, fill one in and boom, youre in. Nice one buddy. Just remember its an offence to take em away live...…..risk of reintroducing them to unaffected waters....if there are any left!!
Swainiac
Swainiac cheers, I don't leave much behind when I'm in full feasting mode!!
Didn't know you couldn't take em home live. Where I live, it's perfectly fine. Makes it easy to get a crawdad boil going Louisiana style with shrimp, sausage, corn, and potatoes.
I need to send you some of our seasoning from here in south Louisiana. I like to boil 50 - 80 pounds of crawfish at once.
Robert thanks that would be nice, you can find me on Instagram & message me on there if you like, thanks!
Scampi = crayfish tails. Good work!
I love Crayfish, Your food looked lovely ;0)
Jason thanks!
Good grub mate😊😊
Again another amazing video keep up the good work Paul 💪
Daniel Thank you!
Subscribed Sir! Great video! Cant wait to see more.
Papa thank you kindly sir!!
where can I catch these also from Essex myself
best vid on catching n cooking ive seen dude ;-)
Frizzlefry thank you!
Loved this video as did all your others its such a shame you stopped posting more..much missed.
Grew up on Herts/Essex boarder -Used to do this as a kid!
Good video, free crayfish, yay! Try sautéing them in a couple of knobs of butter instead of the oil for next level taste...
You should try using the crawfish for bait, and also watch a how to cook crawfish louisiana style you might like it
Hoang Tran thanks for the advice!!
Your videos are awesome. Hello from Florida
lailalovesemma Hi Florida, could do with some of your sun here in Essex!! Thanks for the kind words!
Shore Fishing Essex your welcome. Wish I could send some sunshine your way. 🌞
I like fishing for all sorts of aquatic creatures & mainly self taught. I like your video, I've never seen crayfish cleaned like that with the tail. Beats purging them when you don't have a lot of water to use
Tamara thanks, it's nice to eat what you catch, at least you know where it's came from, good luck with your fishing!
Don't get me wrong. Love your accent. Me? I'm a Suffolk bor.
Bang on, nice one brother. 👍 ☺
s.p. thank you!
We have those little buggers on this side of the river,I have even had one take a plug when Pike fishing.
Bill Moss they'll grab anything!!
Where could I go crayfishing in South east England preferably around the M25 or in Sussex?
Im gonna do my firet cray fishing in calgart in 2 weeks signal crayfish you got my sub brother
Tiberious Maximus thank you sir!!
Thanks for sharing , that is a great recipe, I love shrimp poor boy's. Now to catch me some crayfish. Thanks all the way from California.
gary Cline thank you sir, it means a lot for this to be endorsed by an American!! The home of the po'boy!!
USA- southern Oregon and going again for crawfish- we have native signal and 3-4 invasive s now; ballast water fro aisa and idiots that have them for bait or house fish tanks go out and dump them where ever and they attach to boats and lines and move.
Also reccomend chucking some Chinese five spice in the water, its pukka mate
Sounds like a plan, cheers!
can i go and catch then in march and in day light
March is a bit early, wait until later in the year, darkness is better but daylight is OK too
Love ur video
Nice one, mate.
Great video going to try this thanks
Why not mate? I reckon you'll enjoy it!
that looked so tasty...
It was!!
You sure know how to live mate :)))
Jan cheers!
Fantastic video. License & net ready I'm off to catch some of me own. Could I possbily get the receipe for the 'Panko'? seems like it could be bread crumbs but have never heard of it. Cheers alot
Thomas thanks, you can buy panko in most supermarkets or you could make your own by coarsely grating leftover bread, spreading evenly on a baking tray & letting them dry out in warming down oven, good luck my friend!
@@shorefishingessex Great stuff! wishing you a happy & successful new year. Thank you again.
Never mind what you didn't catch, you caught dinner and removed some pests.
Lived all my life in a crayfish paradise - Texas. Of course, we purge them and cook them whole with a bit of seasoning. Also, fried and lots of other ways.
Cheers,
Tim thank you sir, I plan to do more with them in the future!
Poor boy sandwich is what we call it in America .can't beat it 😋
Paul thanks, seeing po'boys on man vs food inspired this video!
That looks seriously tasty
Paul it sure was!!
SORRY CAPS WONT TURN OF - JUST WATCHED A GUY FROM USA DOING THIS. HE ADDED SALT TO THE CRAYS AND ADDED COLD WATER FOR FIRST CLEAN, THE MUCK THAT CAME OFF WHEN SALT ADDED WAS SURPRISING
Lol George, no need to apologise!! Thanks for the info!
Anyone know where I can go to camp and catch cray fish in Essex?
I love your letteral thinking brother . Plus i think you are fishing rather than trapping , which is what the license is required for . And as you already have a fishing licence, hey presto .
irish medi-weed-grower, thanks, I'll have to get back there some day!!
Proper scampi roll
I am sure you reloaded this video, one of my favs!
Yeah this is one I re-loaded, glad I did, it's getting a few views!
Good ldea to bait your landing net
It’s Rick Grovellers brother
Great Channel!! Do you know anywhere in the Southend area I can catch crayfish?
Sean honestly I don't know, these were from the other side of Essex & I've been sworn to secrecy!!
Keep the uploads coming geeza 👍
Papa will try, cheers geez!
Can I ask where about’s this lake is exactly bruva? Always wanted to catch crayfish locally somewhere!!
Looks delicious!
John it was!!
I've heard that bacon on a hook works as well as they hold on for grim death ....
colintraveller no doubt!!
Great loophole given its illegal to return them to the water 👍
Michael definitely. give it a try!!
Bet they'd be well nice in one of them Thai curry kits from aldi
might have to give it a try
It looks like you're putting all your older videos back on Paul, good on you mate. A bit of thousand Island dressing or a sweet chili dipping sauce would have made your taste buds drool, a bit like you made mine do. Going back through all of your videos as a kidney stone is making its slow journey through my tubes and it's not conducive for stalking deer today.
Tony Hobbs sorry to hear about you having to pass stones, I had a similar experience a couple of years ago & I can confirm that it's bloody painful!! Hope you get back to normal soon & yes, I wish I had some sweet chilli with that Po'boy!!
@@shorefishingessex Hi Paul, just finished a 300 mile round trip to see when my Urologist was gonna move this stone. After a couple of xrays, he informed me that he's got to remove them soon, like tomorrow. We settled for Monday as stuffs happening here on the coast over the weekend and I can put up with one stuck stone until then. He said OK but, there's a lot more than one. Anyway, Monday is blasting day then back out in the forest as the oceans bad due to a severe wind storm for a few days.
@@MrCfish1Good luck pal!
I thought you should not return a signal crayfish, or in this case to the pond? Good vid though.
Charming language
Viking Adventurer cheers!
I have to ask, why so much processing. Salt water purge, live boil, add corn, onions, mushrooms, sausage, swamp dust. Grab a beer pinch tails, suck heads, eat till falling over. Otherwise, love your video. :-)
David B will take that on board, thanks!
lovely job fair play
Chhers wayne!
Cheers
You ever make it to Texas give me a holler Louisiana Born and Raised on crawfish
Tommy thank you sir, One day maybe, I love the US!!
To catch lobster on a rod. Put a treble hook on and a small gold hook the smaller gold hook the better put a square piece of bait on the trebel and put a tiny bit on the gold hook. Cart it to a stand of sea weed in the sea kelp. Wait a while it always picks the small bit up you eindvin a you have a lobster
Angel thanks for the advise!
Only over regulated England would make people get a permit to fish for an INVASIVE SPECIES. The need to control everyone hurts them as the Signal is decimating waterways in the UK.
way469 tell me about it, lol!!
There should be a National Campaign to encourage people to catch and cook signal crayfish to try and reduce the population. Sadly i cant eat any kind of fish but they look so nice!!
Gordon that isn't such a bad idea!!
Says to boss: I'm gonna take my lunch break now, gonna go and grab myself a sandwich. Be back in a few days.
Lol!!
@@shorefishingessex your dedication to that sandwich was admirable 😁
that trick of pulling its digestive track out works on cooked ones
to bad about the rest of the crayfish. if you boil them hole use a lot of spuce, will kill off any parisites
Lord Faladar thanks!