Another great and informative video Robbie, keep up the great work👍

Explained very well. Great job.

Great informtional video Robbie! Haven't been able to post for a while. I've used the open nets a lot ! Also we use a wire net when catching crawfish by volume. The enclosed type.

Great video Robbie, I should invest on one of those open top lift nets, ha

Great info Robbie I agree with absolutely everything you said mate. I might actually go yabbying this week for the first time this season

Awesome! 😁 I always use dry dog food. It's brilliant, so easy to deal with when putting fresh stuff in. I have 2 collapsible bait traps from BCF. Although I had to repair one. Forgot the aerator bucket one time, had heaps of shrimp. Grabbed it, put 2 on my rig, zipped it up and chucked it back in! I had 16 shrimp still in there. Enter: big massive yabbie! He must've been hungry, couldnt fit through the hole. Next time I checked it, the mesh was ripped from the ring resulting in a big bloody hole haha, I had 4 shrimp left and a massive angry yabbie 😂 zip ties are my new best friend 😁 fixed! That was Sunday just gone actually. Fixed it this morning 👍🍻

Glad I seen this video, I was using an opera house in the canal last week and was gone when I went to retrieve it, I had no idea they had been banned, glad it was stolen or whatever happened, probably saved me a huge fine one day

Also being in South Australia, I'm on the murray. Best spot I find is chucking the nets in amongst the willows. Mannum is a great spot. It's where I'm taking the missus camping for the next 4 days!! 😁 KEEN! 😎

I was literally just thinking about that question

Good info mate thumbs up 👍

I use the foldable box bait fish traps, although designed for catching bait fish, they have small rings which only lets perfect fishing size yabbies in

Bro thanks for this vid i needed to know this stuff ur channel is to god

I have to agree with you about the bait trap being my favourite as well right now,

0:45 that is the australian salute

Drop nets are the only option here in WA unless you have access to private dams. Even then there's strict regulations regarding mesh size, diameter as well as where & when you can carry them. Good video Robbie. Thanks for the upload.

Great vid thanks

I tripped over some of the best yabby traps I've ever seen. They are custom made by the same bloke who used to create my crab pots. Exceptional and are legal in Qld and NSW.

Great video

Great video Robbie it’s getting really hot lately

Great video robbie

Good on ya big Robbie! Keep up the good work legend 🤙 yeww

Good info mate

Awesome video

hey robbie, thinking of getting some collapsible traps, are these effective within a local creek? thanks!

I would definitely buy a Robbie fishing straw hat if one was released. Please bring one out

Third :) told ya I'll be here soon as you upload them:)

This is the first time I've heard that opera house nets are banned. Is this only in vic or Australia wide ?? I ive in nsw. any feedback about this would be appreciated thanks.

An interesting observation, now that I keep a pet yabby in an aquarium, is that it is much quicker to chase down and eat a frozen pea than a piece of meat. Makes me wonder if rabbit or chicken feed might be a more effective bait than the traditional meat-based ones... Any thoughts on that, Robbie?

Great mate, this helps a lot, question do you catch big yabbies in the bait nets with such a small opening? The area I go mostly has very large yabbies around 60gms minimum. Will they be able to get into the opening of the bait net

i like the double ringers mate i bean doing for over 25 years

im in QLD and it's currently 2021 and im struggling to understand if a collapsible bait traps is the same as funnel trap

Great advice Robbie love you work buddy

I've left the pyramid nets in overnight at Dartmouth, and although I can't be 100% sure, I doubt that many yabbies have escaped. The best results up there come after dark, and I've been pleasantly surprised with the results from the new nets.

wasn't aware that u weren't allowed to use opera house nets till now thanks,

Awesome as Robbie

I'mma try to catch some baby fish with them today! With the collapsable one. Let's see if there's any yabbies in the river also.

Hey Robbie mate love the show I'm just east at bermagui, should swap spots and story's and go for a flick and a beer one day

I was squishing the round rings on the opera house nets to an oval about 3cm tall, before the ban and never had an issue of non target species getting in. The concept of the bait trap and the opera house net is the same a funnel trap with the only difference being the shape, mesh size and ring size. Its the ringless opera nets that where the main issue thats why they added rings. If the ring was made smaller on opera house nets then the issue would have been fixed. I had issues with water rats which are worse then any of the other non targets and squishing the ring fixed that.

I’ve snagged an opera house net on a diving lure which had been lost or left which had the remnants of turtles and fish in it, had a few massive yabbies too. I think the old opera house nets were great for catching yabbies but a self baiting death trap for everything when left in the water. We might not catch as many yabbies but we don’t kill other natives anymore. I’m happy to see the platypus in our dam raid my open top nets. Thanks for the video mate.

I’ve gotta say the collapsable bait traps mostly because I’m impatient so I can just leave them overnight

Hey Robbie great video... Why couldn’t they just make the opening smaller, or fitting a metal ring to the opening of the Opera house nets, wouldn’t that solve the problem also.... Now I know I’m only one person but I have never caught a platypus, rat or tortoise in a opera house net. I have seen them caught in illegal fish traps, but you will never stop illegal anything really..

Bravo.

Kerennn...👍👍👍👍👌

You should try dragging a heavy duty landing net around the shallows, surprising how many Yabbies you will get

Opera house nets were and still are the best no question

Are there any states in Australia where you are still allowed to use opera house nets?

The only problem with open top nets are birds such as Cormorants getting a free feed.

He should do a chopper impersonation, he's got the voice and look for it🤣

Reminds me of the Chopper Reid impersonater😊

I use a snapper lead cable tied to the bottom so it doesn't lift up with bait on the pyramid net

Another great video robbie. Just wondering if you have ever gone for yabbys with a bit of meat on a string? It's good fun but requires a bit of patients. Maybe you could do a video on it at one of your well stocked dams. Keep up the good work mate. cheers

We pulled an opera house net out of the same river on cod opening too! Burnt it over the fire then threw the wire that was left in the bin! I'm so sick of seeing them out in wild rivers!

Do you think you could catch eels in that bait trap

Do you go saltwater fishing?

Opera houses are the best I reckon but they are illegal in ACT now.

Hey Robbie. I believe I owe you an apology about my comments on one of your videos recently. I had gotten bad news about my health, which made me very cranky. I did not even look at your replies when they came up I was embarrassed. Hope I did not hurt your feelings but I might have . Cheers.

Yabbing being is the best

I'd rate pyramid nets the best. Collapsible nets the holes are too small. Opera houses were the best but now they're banned it's bad luck there.

Drop net👍

Sorry, still use my opera house nets, SA I am 200kms from the river and I know there are no turtles where I fish.

I remember the saying "I fought the law, and the law won" - yeh it is what it is. Narrow-mildness reigns supreme on this topic as "not" all freshwater systems even hold Platypus and Turtles but are tarred with the same brush - does a Platypus survive in 40-50 degrees temperature of the outback and in almost true MUD water? There should be separated for different locations in line with risk and nuances. How many people have caught or even seen Platypus at towns such as Birdsville in Qld or Bourke in NSW. I truly believe fisheries have just done a simple risk averse and politically correct broad brush assessment and approach on this topic (it accounts for nothing) - when actually, different areas have quite different issues and nuances. Keeps some people happy I suppose but its actually crud and clay.

I don’t understanding how banning them completely will stop them being used in rivers if they were already banned but were still used

Use yabbies in baitfishing video please

I cught a eel in a bait trap

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pyramid net you can leave them over nite

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Robbie have you ever been hunting with firearms before/

Are you sure your name isn't Mr. Turtle? Because you tortoise well

Opera house nets win easily every time. No contest.

you must be in Vic look like an Ironbark tree behind you

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Really loving your content man🤘I was just wondering if I’d be able to promote my channel by replying to comments on your videos? - Cheers, tight lines

platypus could not get in a opera house nets that is why they have a circle neck restriction. who ever seen a platypus caught in an opera house net? i never ever seen any caught and i am was born in 1965, i do know of depi netting the glenelg river killing all sorts including platypuses. its the old some so wrong and we all pay for it, net swap program failed as not enough where supplied, not one person i know got a swap, always got told no nets available every time we asked, 1 hour and stock was gone. the program did not work we never got 1 net, your entitled to your opinion. but i find less opera house nets left but i find heaps of shrimp nets, shrimp nets have the same neck size as an opera house, so what is the difference?

Disgusting nets 😁 didn't know about the opera house swap my miss's cut mine up when she heard they were band, I was a bit cut because I thought it could have been a nice man cave piece...

opera house net banned, if to save platapus and turtles then fair enough.