Sand Yabbies...Yabby Pumps

Yabby Pumps Sand, originally uploaded by Ladymaggic.

Hervey Bay is a Great Place for Fishing.

The main tool needed to collect yabbies and worms is a yabby pump, a sieve and a bucket or two to store the bait. At times when I?ve been pumping yabbies I?ve come across soldier crabs running across the sand flats. These pretty little purple/ blue crabs make good bait for big elbow slapping summer (sand) whiting.
http://www.marinews.com/fishing_details.php?recordid=173


All those holes in the sand at Low Tide,  are airholes for the sand yabbies that live in the sand.
A great bait for fishing is the sand yabby.
The puckered sand are from Soldier crabs.
Hervey Bay is full of both Soldier crabs and Sand Yabbies.

Here a fisherman uses a yabby pump to get yabblies.
He showed me one at the bottom of the bucket.
The Pump is pushed into the sand, and the core is squirted onto the sand and the yabbies jump around ready to be collected.
There weren't many yabbies right at this time, and rather than disturb the guys I took the photo and moved on with the dogs I was walking on the beach.
I found out what all the bubbling holes in the sand were.

http://users.tpg.com.au/dtdan/yabpump.htm