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crawdad question
« on: July 10, 2012, 02:44:17 PM »
how do you know if a lake has crawdads in it?  Is there a way other than throwing out a trap and checking it in a few hours?

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Re: crawdad question
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2012, 02:52:45 PM »
 :yeah: :chuckle:

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Re: crawdad question
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2012, 02:53:40 PM »
Carefull though.....spawing bluegill and other sunnies have a simliar scent when they are on beds. I recommend looking for a good hound to ride the bow and "bay 'em up" when he is on scent.

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Re: crawdad question
« Reply #3 on: July 10, 2012, 02:53:52 PM »
Spotlight the shallows or rockbeds you can see?

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Re: crawdad question
« Reply #4 on: July 10, 2012, 02:54:59 PM »
I doubt there is a lake in WA without crawdads in it. :twocents:
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Re: crawdad question
« Reply #5 on: July 10, 2012, 03:04:20 PM »
pretty much any lake that is creek or river fed has crawdads, find a spot 8 to 10 ft deep that is pretty rocky and drop a pot with a big ball of bacon in a bait box, check it after 20 minutes if there are craws in there then hammer down, if you make a drive to ft lewis muck creek is flat loaded with them, or mineral lake out by morton, a good one is the mashel river, tons of crawdads in there and any little creek that dumps into it, if you ever head out to sequim kramers creek has some of the biggest craws i have ever seen or caught, like little damn lobsters  :EAT:
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Re: crawdad question
« Reply #6 on: July 10, 2012, 03:08:03 PM »
Watch the lake real close for crawdad fart bubbles.

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Re: crawdad question
« Reply #7 on: July 10, 2012, 03:10:11 PM »
I doubt there is a lake in WA without crawdads in it. :twocents:

I have Timberlakes here in Mason County about 2 blocks away.  I've seen them in the Spokane River but never here.  In the Spokane River you just lift up a rock.  Timberlakes has no decent size rocks in the shallows though

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Re: crawdad question
« Reply #8 on: July 10, 2012, 03:11:00 PM »
Any regs or limits?


edit: nevermind.  Found them

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Re: crawdad question
« Reply #9 on: July 10, 2012, 03:13:11 PM »
back when we crawdaded there werent no regs but i bet there is now, lord only knows where a guy would find those regs at, call the game department and i betcha they wont have a clue either, or it will be a 50 dollar license  :chuckle:
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Re: crawdad question
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Re: crawdad question
« Reply #11 on: July 10, 2012, 03:25:43 PM »
sweet there ya go, 10 pounds is alot of dads but not much meat
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Re: crawdad question
« Reply #12 on: July 10, 2012, 03:27:38 PM »
When I was living in Houston, I used-to-could eat 2, 5lb buckets in a sitting.  That was 12 years ago though.

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Re: crawdad question
« Reply #13 on: July 10, 2012, 03:31:48 PM »
Next they'll have a limit on how many worms you can dig...   2 dozen worms, but they must be killed prior to removing them from the dirt (humanely). :chuckle:

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Re: crawdad question
« Reply #14 on: July 10, 2012, 03:34:08 PM »
I am not a fan of shellfish personally, but I am half tempted to build myself a crawdad pot. My wife is from down south and she mentions often that she misses the crawfish from Louisiana. I try to tell her we have crawdads here but she don't believe me. Maybe I will see if I can get a recipe from one of her relatives and surprise her one day.

 


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