crawdad question

[buglebuster]

i seem to find alot of them around here but have always been nervous to eat them out of the local ponds, do you guys think there would be any problem with it?

[Miles]

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.

You should look around.  I bought one at the White Elephant in Spokane for $19.99.  Pretty cheap IMO.

[sirfunkeybut]

i seem to find alot of them around here but have always been nervous to eat them out of the local ponds, do you guys think there would be any problem with it?

  I've seen to many people bathing in local ponds. Rotary especially

[DoubleJ]

Just went down to the lake with a homemade pot and a bacon ball.  3 different spots for 25-30 minutes each.  Nothing.  it's a very muddy bottom full of weeds, not rocks.

[Kola16]

Just went down to the lake with a homemade pot and a bacon ball.  3 different spots for 25-30 minutes each.  Nothing.  it's a very muddy bottom full of weeds, not rocks.

I have property on a lake that has a muddy bottom. The only way that I can catch them during the day is if I go to the outlet where there are sticks to flip over, and go snorkeling for them. I catch them in a trap by leaving it over night.

[DoubleJ]

Just went down to the lake with a homemade pot and a bacon ball.  3 different spots for 25-30 minutes each.  Nothing.  it's a very muddy bottom full of weeds, not rocks.

I have property on a lake that has a muddy bottom. The only way that I can catch them during the day is if I go to the outlet where there are sticks to flip over, and go snorkeling for them. I catch them in a trap by leaving it over night.

Thanks for the tip.  I'll try that

[TheSkyBuster]

 I'm not gunna give up my honey hole but I'll share my technique.  I like to find an area with catails in the water that extend out from shore about 10'.   I will toss my pot over the catails into the open water then pull the rope untill the pot is at the edge of the cattails on the water side.    I find it takes atleast an hour or two for the crayfish to start finding there way into the pots (a 25 minute soak has never worked for me) so be patient.  I leave em out for atleast 4 hours.   As for bait I've used catfood, sardines, and lately canned pink salmon,  it all seems to work fine.   The biggest thing is loacation.    My honey hole is freakin loaded with em.    but once I pull a full pot out of a spot I'll be lucky to get a few within a hundred feet of that spot for the next few weeks.

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Try goolgle search on crawfish! If i remember Beaver Lk king co has transplanted Louisiana crawfish in it! There were some good articles on crawfish in the state of wa.

[DoubleJ]

I'm not gunna give up my honey hole but I'll share my technique.  I like to find an area with catails in the water that extend out from shore about 10'.   I will toss my pot over the catails into the open water then pull the rope untill the pot is at the edge of the cattails on the water side.    I find it takes atleast an hour or two for the crayfish to start finding there way into the pots (a 25 minute soak has never worked for me) so be patient.  I leave em out for atleast 4 hours.   As for bait I've used catfood, sardines, and lately canned pink salmon,  it all seems to work fine.   The biggest thing is loacation.    My honey hole is freakin loaded with em.    but once I pull a full pot out of a spot I'll be lucky to get a few within a hundred feet of that spot for the next few weeks.

My lake looks just like you describe

[KFhunter]

These are the traps I use - spend some time in this website there is a ton of information here.
 
http://www.terrybullard.com/
 
I had two traps go missing (theft), so find the page talking about how to keep your traps from being stolen.   IE: don't use a float!
 
I got 4 traps now and a holding cage.  Man I gotta get out there after some craws!
 
 

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

That terrybullard site is cool! Thanks for the info.

[smdave]

www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfrjKKfZ3t0

[DoubleJ]

I watched part one and 2 just before you posted the video.  Is that you?

[smdave]

Is that you?

No, just thought it might help the fishing

[HUNTINCOUPLE]

Not to get off subject but check out you tube how to boil crawfish! There is some funny funny stuff there!