Catching MASSIVE yabbies

These massive yabbies are the biggest that I can remember catching in a very long time. Some of these giants are truly enormous. For those watching from America, Imagine if your big crawfish were big as this?
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[@debramage739]

For some reason I have not been able to post, got a youngin to look and yes, now can post. Nice catch Robbie

[@robbiefishing]

Haha thanks Deb. They are such wizards these days aren't they. I thought I was smart setting the time on my parents VCR back in the 1980s and now I can't even set the clock on my motorbike. LOL

[@timfarris6801]

Great day In the morning those were huge yabbis Robbie and so many thanks f or sharing my friend .

[@darrenmonks4532]

That's a beast Robbie. Doing the right thing by thinning them out, as there's only so much food in such a small dam. Better having 300 giant yabbies than 1000 smaller stunted ones. Ditto with perch.

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks mate, yep spot on.

[@J-VT]

A catch and cook would’ve been mad for these yabbies 👌

[@callmehank88]

Yum yum, great feed there Robbie.

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks mate, they sure were amazing.

[@jamiebaynes9488]

Hi, next time don't use a stick down the hole use a piece of the chicken to lure the yabby out. Great video as always. Thank you for sharing; I really don't want the season to end.

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks so much mate. Haha neither do I. LOL I've had so much fun!

[@tubby5006]

Bloody hell! What a season. And this late in the season too. Awesome video Robbie 😀✌️

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks Tubby. We had an inch of rain and a big temperature drop yesterday so I dare say that will put the brakes on my Yabby videos.

[@Urbanfisho]

'They're BIG!' (That's what she said! )

[@robbiefishing]

Hahaha

[@Urbanfisho]

@@robbiefishing ;o)

[@TheCaptainbeefylog]

For Blueclaw some of those were pretty bloody big. The only problem I have with them is when they burrow the tunnel often perforates the clay lining. This can cause the dam to leak, and in extreme cases, blow the wall out. Redclaw are a pest in most places, but they don't burrow and get twice the size of Blueclaw. A bit of the chicken skin on some string and you probably could have coaxed the big fella out of the hole.

[@Wolfsschanze99]

Nice one, I guess the Dam hasn't been fished in a while. In Shepp East this Kiwi would stop by in his bus every fruit season & work the orchard a mate lived on, he would follow the seasons around Australia, we would always finish the day having a swim in the local channel & sometimes he would come, whilst we messed around he would be on his hands & knees in the edge of the channel in the mud feeling around looking for Yabbies, when he found one he would rip the tail off & start chewing on it before crushing the claws in his teeth, he did ok & always got a good feed.

[@robbiefishing]

WOW that's just crazy. I would be too scared of getting sick. Haha

[@wayneberry8703]

Oh my goodness, Cob! They are horses lol …. Another great result, Robbie 👍🏼

[@HookedOnFishing61]

OMG! What a yabbying session!! Awesome video, some great footage. Some bloody huge yabbies! What a feed 🤤

[@algoormay8430]

Good haul of big yabbies again.🤘.

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks so much mate. What a ripper this session was. Haha

[@pitbullcustomlures1917]

Some absolute monsters! You've had a pearla yabbie season this year, and probably still abit more in it yet Robbie. Love the pure excitement you have, makes for such enjoyable videos mate

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks so much mate. It sure has been an unreal season that's for sure. One of the best I can remember.

[@kevdimo6459]

Fantastic Robbie, get the garlic mornay sauce happening with some of those big Kahoonas! 🤤

[@TheGreatoutdoorsAndGourmetVic]

Ya getting into Murray cray territory here! Haven't seen yabbies like that since I was a kid! (& that was in the NE as well! )

[@robbiefishing]

Me either. Someone in the comments has caught them 3 times bigger. WOW Can you imagine that?

[@TheGreatoutdoorsAndGourmetVic]

@@robbiefishing yup!

[@darcypritchard9875]

good job Robbie I've been yabbying and fishing lots around the Murray darling river I've been trying for a while to beat my pb cod of 108cm but all I've caught is carp and the odd couple of perch anyways good job on all of your videos it puts a smile on all of our faces😊😃😀😁😆😄

[@taylorday4113]

Need more catch and cooks 👌👌🍻

[@damo.77]

Big hands..............you know what that means.............big gloves haha. Some really nice yabbies there mate, bet they went down well.

[@robbiefishing]

Hahaha thanks mate.

[@susannawilson-rl4vh]

Heya Robbie, thank you so much for not only your entertaining videos but I really appreciate your demonstrations on how to catch, care for, clean & cook yabbies, fish etc. Can't thank you enough, I've learnt so much to show the fam on our Murray River trip coming up. You're awesome!!!

[@robbiefishing]

Thank you so much for your kind words. 🙏

[@sharonwylie1104]

Your a Fishing and Yabbie legend 🎉

[@robbiefishing]

Haha thanks so much Sharon.

[@hiddentruth1982]

I can't get over how different in color they are down under. Here in the states they are more of a red like a lobster.

[@robbiefishing]

These ones vary a lot between waterways too. Some are jet black, particularly if there are trees near the water and or clear water. In really dirty sandy coloured dams they can be almost white. Those white ones turn red.... When I boil them. Haha

[@kevdimo6459]

Also there’s the blue ones I’ve found in sandy dams as well. Funny thing they turn red when cooked too. 😂😂

[@dylanmcdivitt1528]

I live in the states. We have a natural spring fed creek and the bright blue

[@hiddentruth1982]

@@kevdimo6459 must be my area then. I've never seen a blue one. there are just a dark red then turn bright red when cooked.

[@occaisme]

That's a bloody good feed, nice catch.

[@craigdavies69]

Awesome job mate, my 4 year old boy absolutely loves your videos especially the Crayfish and Yabbies, he used to call them all Lobmonsters haha. He recently caught his first fish in a local river, to my surprise it was an Australian Grayling, small but a lovely little fish, obviously released but we spotted heaps of them they are on the comeback.

[@robbiefishing]

Haha that's so awesome, lobmonsters. 😂😂 Well done on the grayling. I've never caught one but would love to some day. We don't get them up here.

[@mickssouthaussieadventures1631]

WOW. Just imagine how well that dam will produce next summer Robbie.

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks Mick. I will definitely be going there to find out. Haha

[@matthewyates2830]

That yabby was huge the one down the hole. There are yabbys twice as big as those in the South Australian Murray lands at the moment.

[@tyson4615]

Good job Robbie👍

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks so much Tyson.

[@LiamGifford]

This video remind me of the weekend when me and my mates were at my farm, and we were doing alot of looking for yabbies dames and we got close to 200 hundred very large and X large yabbies over 4 dame's some were black and muddy but most were clear and blue

[@robbiefishing]

WOW, it sounds like you had an amazing weekend mate. Well done.

[@MrCurly05]

What a mother haul, great work Robbie... Are the dams you fish public or private, I can't seem to find anywhere accessible on the Mornington Peninsula to fish for yabbies

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks mate. Some are public and some are private. It all depends where I am.

[@SteveggStevegg]

A great feed coming up. Well done mate. Cheers Steve

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks so much Steve. They tasted amazing mate.

[@mike-williams]

I remember crawling through a culvert attached to stormwater drains in the Riverina when I was a kid and encountering a lobster-sized black yabby . No one believed me.

[@robbiefishing]

I believe you. I've seen some massive yabbies in the Riverina.

[@lachlan1660]

I cought yabbys 3 times the size of those nice clean blue claw

[@robbiefishing]

WOW 3 times as big as these, they must have been enormous. Bigger than over sizel crayfish. That's incredible, well done.

[@iain1969]

Bloody awesome Robbie! Would love to see you cook them up. Thanks for the video.

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks so much mate. I actually filmed a Yabby cooking video last week, or the week before.

[@rege11111111]

good show robbie where i live we get none of those and if i lived down there i would be beside you catching a nice feed.

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks mate. It's the wrong time of year to catch them now and I'm already missing them..haha

[@vincecotton127]

Great session Mate! Love the Yabbie Vidz!

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks so much Vince. They will probably start slowing down soon I reckon as the weather changes.

[@trevorbennett2178]

Bloody excellent session mate. Lovely big yabbies 👍 Not a real big dam in size, but there were just so many enormous ones. Must be feeding on something in the water. Well done though, Bon Appetit 😀 Cheers.

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks so much Trevor. I tried back in spring and didn't do any good, then a storm filled the dam with water and it overflowed. Then it evaporated and the yabbies went nuts. Haha

[@allanotoole3304]

Luv it Robbie 👍🏽. I picked up two nets yesterday and going to give it a shot tomorrow. 🍺👍🏽

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks fantastic. Good luck Allan, I hope you can catch a great feed.

[@ItsJustEhli]

They were some big yabbies Robbie good job

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks mate. Biggest I've seen for years.

[@TeamTibbett]

Some beauty's there mate. I think it's actually been too hot up here, if that's possible. We have had a heat wave and I've tried a few spots that have had heaps and the last week or so they have gorn quite. And the water temperature when I felt it with my hand actually feels hot. We have some rain and and a bit lower temperatures coming this week so will be interesting to see if they come back on in the cooler weather.

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks mate. Yeah you guys have really cooped it up there. I loved that putrid water in one of your recent videos. It was so dirty .. ideal for yabbies. Haha

[@sharonwylie1104]

Caught a 57cm Murray COD this morning I called it Robbie your the best 🎉

[@robbiefishing]

WOW Well done. I just got home. I snuck out for an hour and never had a touch. LOL

[@moored1979]

Another great video Robbie ... personally, i would've been dangling a bit of meat down those big holes between soaks to try and bring em out

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks mate. I wonder if they would have come out or let go? I will try next time and see what happens. Haha

[@sharonwylie1104]

Love those yabbies no wonder you got so excited 🎉

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks Sharon. What an amazing day this was.

[@lightningsfishingadventures]

You're gonna need a bigger bucket! 😂 they're an awesome size, STOMPERS! Great catch!! 😁🦞

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks mate. You're not wrong, true monsters these ones.

[@lightningsfishingadventures]

@@robbiefishingperfect eating size, that's no snack lol that's lunch haha

[@gregdawson4200]

Land of the Giants

[@robbiefishing]

Hey Greg you're not wrong mate.

[@michaelhayes1068]

Wow rob there were some beauties there, I hope you enjoy eating them as much as catching...cracking Best wishes mate 😎🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

[@chriscoyne4827]

wow that's really amazing stuff well done. I really thought you had different colour boots on but was just wet 🤣🤦‍♀️

[@retsaMinnavoiG]

It's not a bad idea to let unusually big ones go. They're probably good breeders and they might pass the big genes on.

[@Jesse-H]

Very nice job Robbie. When we go to catch yabbies we don’t catch many sadly

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks Jesse. Hopefully you can find a good spot mate. Some times it takes a bit of trial and error.

[@Jesse-H]

@@robbiefishingYeah looking for a good spot.

[@craigparry5648]

Big yabbies, clear water need to take the rod next time.well done 👍

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks mate.

[@blainesellars1548]

Mate I’ve been watching you for a long time now and they are some monsters! Well done mate no wonder you’re happy and excited. I’m excited for you! 😅

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks so much mate. WOW, what monsters. The biggest I have seen for a very long time.

[@beckyrobinson5672]

I love this yabbying.Its been fun. Good job. God bless.

[@robbiefishing]

Thank you so much Becky. It will stop very soon, but I really don't want it to. LOL

[@bussieboy7064]

Hey Robbie do you use big yabbies when chasing cod? I personally do. The biggest yabby you got, something around that size I caught a METER FRICKING CARP!! Usually around the medium-large people use for cod. I use monster ones and funny thing: i was expect to catch monsters but in reality I caught a 59cm cod 😂. Good fun

[@robbiefishing]

Haha that's funny. I have caught cod on yabbies mate, but to be honest I'm happy just using cheese these days. LOL

[@bussieboy7064]

@@robbiefishingcheese is cheaper and easier to maintain lol 🤣 and I’m stating facts

[@robbiefishing]

Haha that's EXACTLY what I reckon. LOL People ask me why I don't use Bardi grubs. LOL Been there done that. I either have to break my back, I spend $5 on a single Bardi grub. I can buy an entire block of cheese for that. Haha

[@bussieboy7064]

@@robbiefishing bardi grubs will always be the OG but you’re absolutely right!! Chicken and cheese are easily accessible and work the same. Back in the day dad and I had a great spot to dig grubs and they would always be there but unfortunately with time it went. We tried other spots and gave up from the hard work. We did find another spot for grubs (I even thought about going there to this day) but it was flooded when the floods happened and they would’ve either flown or died. Those were the days using grubs. Chicken and cheese is just todays bait for cod.

[@mattboyd8090]

Awesome session!!! I've tied all my ropes to the coner of my nets, saves having to drag them in at a million miles an hour haha

[@robbiefishing]

Excellent idea Matt. But do they tangle when you throw them?

[@mattboyd8090]

@@robbiefishing I haven't been throwing them very far out, but I try to throw them in a way that they won't spin.

[@brodie4249]

great video mate

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks so much Brodie.

[@hankbraff1135]

Yep they were thumpers alright Robbie, wonder what they were feeding on to get that big.

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks Hank, I'm not sure to be honest. I think there is a good balance in tie dam. Not too many to prevent growth, and not too light on.. When I stopped last time there were a lot of tadpole eggs. I wonder if the yabbies would eat them?

[@cudgee7144]

Yes Mate, just take enough for a feed, a dozen is usually plenty. Used get so angry seeing blokes pull up, enter properties without permission and then just dragnet every living creature out of the dam. Have a good one.

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks mate, that is super frustrating.

[@haroldtakahashi8875]

💛...it may well be the year of the rabbit in some parts of the world, but apparently, it's the year of the yabby for you... bon appetite...

[@robbiefishing]

Haha it sure is mate. It's been an incredible season.

[@l214laus]

Good fun Robbie.

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks mate, it sure was.

[@robertcotton9091]

Awesome! Well done mate and thanks for sharing :)

[@robbiefishing]

Thank you so much for watching Robert.

[@lorraineperry8232]

Another great video Robbie... those yabbos were huge.... you will get a great feed from them........hey Rob......what was the hotel cloak room attendants name........Mahatma Coat.... and did you hear about the guy who took his friend to hospital cause he had 26 plastic ponies stuck in his rectum....the doctor told him his condition was "stable".........ahaha.......

[@robbiefishing]

Hahahaha love it. Thanks so much for the laugh.

[@michaeleppinger5536]

Wow buddy 👍 them some yabbies 😊😃

[@brumby6697]

another great yabbying video robbie, just to think not that long ago you were keeping yabbies the same size as the ones you threw back in this video. 👍

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks mate, you're not wrong. What an amazing season it has been.

[@godlessbastard4162]

Great stuff!

[@charliewhite4042]

Good on ya Robbie 👍 big monsters love your content mate

[@robbiefishing]

Thank you so much Charlie.

[@tonysmeriglio5004]

Incredible session Robbie!

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks mate. 👍

[@robbiejones9461]

Good yabbying session Robbie nice feed. You still use the goodos?

[@mickwatson2177]

I used to catch em that size in my dam but I think the turtle population may have stopped that.. Feel free to comment. I also have a huge redfin population. Cheers mate

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks Mick. Both the turles and the reddies will definitely thin out the yabbies.

[@RakovaFerma_CrayfishFarm]

really huge !

[@jamesbowen2030]

Good job 100/100 were did U get them nets from I got the rope open met one but they look a bit better net . I'm down at Portland Vic fishing iv got 3 pinky just bit over 30cm long and 1 Taylor around the same size . The weather is blowing a Gale and now starting to rain keep up the good work

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks so much mate. I bought these nets at Anaconda in Albury.

[@billymay6461]

I caught some very black yabbies today. I’m going to try and brave the conditions tomorrow and pull them in and cook them all up if I get enough for a feed

[@robbiefishing]

Fantastic. I hope you enjoy them mate.

[@billymay6461]

@@robbiefishing I got a few this morning, not enough to bump the total up for me and my mate to share. I’m going to put the ones I took home back. One of them is a big bugger, I’m going to start measuring them and he’s going to be my biggest. I swear when I was a kid at the dam next door to my house I caught a monster, hard to tell from when you’re a kid, compared to being 31 this week 😂 hopefully the dam is even better to yabby in later this year.

[@paulbithell1562]

So awesome mate 👍

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks Biffo.

[@wheresowengoin7861]

love your videos robbie son dose my 4 year old I yabbie over hear in South Australia

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks so much mate. There's some monsters over there.

[@martindavoine7500]

Another great episode Rob 🇦🇺 love ya work

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks so much Martin..

[@Hogryder30]

Those are some big yabbies. New nets Robbie?

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks mate. I bought these ones a few months ago. I've been using them for a while now.

[@rhylee223]

those are some huge yabbies you should do a catch and cook

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks mate. I actually filmed a Yabby catch and cook about 2 weeks ago. Did you catch that one?

[@texasp9790]

Love the yabbie videos keep them up 😊

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks so much mate.

[@daveboxwell3151]

Awesome catches. Lobster sìzes

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks Dave, they sure were rippers mate.

[@davidahman5342]

Love to see a cook up on those monsters 🤤

[@robbiefishing]

I did film a Yabby catch and cook recently. Did you see that one?

[@billszegedi1202]

Just Like Spotting Mud Crabs ..

[@michalesinclair5274]

Bloody monsters mate

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks Mic, you're not wrong mate.

[@sharonwylie1104]

Your hilarious Robbie good for you it’s Jurassic Yabbie

[@robbiefishing]

Hahaha thanks Sharon.

[@sheenamoore3938]

WOW

[@texasp9790]

Where did you get your buckets

[@robbiefishing]

I bought this bucket at Adventure Camping And Fishing in Wangaratta.

[@nostickpeople]

Looks like a man made yabbie farm? I live in NY and building one on me lot

[@robbiefishing]

Good luck with you Yabby farm mate. This was just a regular farm dam.

[@adr1an_vel583]

my mate fished out a shoe about size 10 and there was an enormous yabbie inside of it the length of the shoe

[@robbiefishing]

Haha that's so funny. What a great hiding place. LOL

[@danielmcgrath7519]

👍

[@liamlang297]

First how’s It goin Robbie!

[@robbiefishing]

Hi Liam, going well thanks mate. I hope you are too.

[@liamlang297]

@@robbiefishing that’s great!! I’m going camping today hoping to catch some nice Murray cod and yellow belly 😊

[@mrgreenswelding2853]

Next time try and use some chicken to lure that yabby out.

[@robbiefishing]

I thought about that, but had nine left over and didn't want to take it out of the nets. LOL

[@mrgreenswelding2853]

@@robbiefishing could have cut a piece of one leg.

[@Frank-ux4di]

You should have dug him out

[@brendangray1985]

Haha off tap

[@robbiefishing]

Haha that dam is one in a million.

[@Brady273]

Hey Robbie have you been ever been nipped by a yabbie

[@robbiefishing]

Yep, heaps of times and the bloody hurt. LOL 😂

[@johnlugton6835]

Nlce😂

[@robbiefishing]

Thanks mate.

[@gavinroocke2936]

Big hands hey Robbie now your bragging

[@robbiefishing]

Hahahaha

[@usmc55737]

You are one lucky man today brother