Crayfish

Mr. L. C. R. Cameron, author of The Wild Foods of Great Britain (1917) says: ‘This is a species of small fresh-water lobster found in most chalk-streams, in the Bedfordshire Ouse, and in many ponds and other rivers, especially in those bordering on Cannock Chase in Staffordshire. I have caught them singly upon hooks baited with worms; but the best way to capture a number is to put a bit of “high” liver into a basket, which must be sma