Top bush tucker

There is no need to eat beef at every meal during a hunting trip as fish and crustaceans abound in most rivers, lakes and billabongs, especially in the tropics.

“But I am not a fishing person,” some might say. So, what? It’s not hard to catch a feed on the end of a line and baited hook in most streams and billabongs. In fact, a line and hook should be in your survival kit. But I am going off the track here. There are other fishy things in most of our waters, like freshwater lobsters, commonly called crayfish or redclaw, or their close relatives – depending where you hunt. They are easy to catch in pots containing suitable baits.

But, in the tropics we have both redclaw in the Gulf country streams and our very own freshwater prawn of the northern tropical rivers, creeks and billabongs. It is more commonly known as cherabin. It’s a giant super prawn that grows over 30cm