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Crawfishin 2022
dilleytech:
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--- Quote from: pickardjw on June 30, 2022, 09:56:38 AM ---Nothing on a couple of sets in 20'-30' yesterday evening, rocky bottom. Soaked for 2 1/2 hours or so. Cat food for bait...if I was better at Kokanee fishing I might have better bait for next time but no luck on that front either!
I think next week I'll start setting some overnight in spots I can reach from shore. Check em in the morning on the way to work.
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I don’t think signal crawfish like cat food. Oily fish works best.
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I have used cat food with minimal success. Fish carcass works much better. Except small mouth carcs. They don’t seem to like those..
pickardjw:
Set three pots today to soak between 6:30 and 1, used a Kokanee carcass cut up from Wednesday. One pot in the rocks off a point, two in the weeds. All about 10’ of water. Zero takers…might had to dedicate to some overnight soaks. Also think I need to weight the traps down with rocks inside. Make sure they’re not moving around on the bottom at all.
AL WORRELLS KID:
If Unlike crab and shrimp, no colored buoys are required by sport fishers, (but they need to be marked on the surface by some type of flotation device.)
Then how is it that a Commercial Fisher from Lake Forest Park who has been crawfishing in Lake Washington for the past 12 years hides his floats underwater and dredges them to the surface using an Anchor? Are the rules different if you Fish Commercial?
Setting 120 pots in three locations around the north end of Lake Washington. (In order to keep others from poaching his pots, he sets them under water with no markers and uses an anchor to dredge up his chain of pots. It took him less than two hours to pull, clean and reset the pots using an electric winch.
His day’s work equals about 70 pounds of crawfish, destined to his client, the Pike Place Fish Market.
“We give out about 12 permits per year for commercial crawfish fishing,” said Jon Anderson, a state Fish and Wildlife fish program manager. “The few on Lake Washington are the only ones who do it regularly during the season. About five others do it a few times a year and the rest didn’t even put a pot in the water.
Seattle Times (Originally published October 10, 2006)
trophyhunt:
--- Quote from: elkrack on June 30, 2022, 12:12:45 PM ---How bout catching them with a fishing pole?! My kids were fishing and one of their friends caught this craw. Monster!!
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thats how we'd catch them as kids. In a local small creek we'd tie hot dogs to our fishing line on our pole, with some pinch on weights. We'd lower them in, wait till we saw them on the dog and pull them up, shake them in a bucket and go for more. We would always get our bucket full.
Jake Dogfish:
--- Quote from: AL WORRELLS KID on July 18, 2022, 12:03:02 PM ---If Unlike crab and shrimp, no colored buoys are required by sport fishers, (but they need to be marked on the surface by some type of flotation device.)
Then how is it that a Commercial Fisher from Lake Forest Park who has been crawfishing in Lake Washington for the past 12 years hides his floats underwater and dredges them to the surface using an Anchor? Are the rules different if you Fish Commercial?
Setting 120 pots in three locations around the north end of Lake Washington. (In order to keep others from poaching his pots, he sets them under water with no markers and uses an anchor to dredge up his chain of pots. It took him less than two hours to pull, clean and reset the pots using an electric winch.
His day’s work equals about 70 pounds of crawfish, destined to his client, the Pike Place Fish Market.
“We give out about 12 permits per year for commercial crawfish fishing,” said Jon Anderson, a state Fish and Wildlife fish program manager. “The few on Lake Washington are the only ones who do it regularly during the season. About five others do it a few times a year and the rest didn’t even put a pot in the water.
Seattle Times (Originally published October 10, 2006)
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Yes sport fishers are required to have a float. Commercial does not.
As for bait, different species of crawfish eat different baits. Signal crawfish like fish.
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