crawfsh

[buddhaz]

Just wondering if there are any good spots in eastern Washington to catch a mess of crawdads if done great in oregon, good in western wa. Any advice would be greatly appreciated

[h20hunter]

there has been plenty of chat in the past. just search crawdad or crawfish and check the other threads.

[GoldTip]

I've done well around 8-10 years ago on the Little Spokane between Long Lake and the fish hatchery.

[goosegetter79]

Never done it myself but seen people doing it on the snake river around wawawai boat launch. Don't know how they did but seen a few different people over the years.

[trippledigitss]

How do you prepare & eat them? There is a crick behind our house and my son has found a bunch of fat little crawdads in there - but I didnt know what to do with them? I boiled one for him when I was cooking some crab but he chickened out and didnt eat it. Do you just eat the tail or what?

[superdown]

yeah just eat the tail it's just a miniature fresh water lobster   jimmy mac's has a pretty good crawfish chowder you could try before you cook them yourself 

[trippledigitss]

OK thanks! Jimmy Macs? IS that a restaurant or prepared food in a can? I saw an ad for a place in Seatlle call Crawfish Kings or something like that, think I might check it out one of these days. 

[trippledigitss]

Oh and this crawdad my boy brought home was small, about the size of a large prawn maybe. Are the eating ones usually bigger, like 4in long and an inch or two wide?

[jackmaster]

light salt water boil and a little cajun pepper dip them little fellers in a little hot garlic butter with the cajun pepper and they are damn fine but it takes a mess of them to get full but they are damn fine

[d-rock]

I've gotten a bit into crayfish this year.  Lots of good info on the web as to how and why.  Recipe is key to great tasting crawdads, otherwise they are just pretty good.  I heard eastern WA has tons of them everywhere Moses lake, all the big rivers, etc.  Half the fun is finding new honey holes.

I have caught them out of the little creek in my backyard and have pulled well over a couple hundred out this year.  I use them in my seafood/Crab boil dishes.

Cabela's has an inexpensive collapsible mesh and wire trap that I have had great success with, fresh fish carcasses and placing them in deeper, sheltered pools in the smaller creeks and you will have some nice ones.  Check the fishing regs because there are rules and restrictions.

Here's one I caught last night, sorry its a little fuzzy.

[superdown]

OK thanks! Jimmy Macs? IS that a restaurant or prepared food in a can? I saw an ad for a place in Seattle call Crawfish Kings or something like that, think I might check it out one of these days. 

  yeah it's a restaurant they play loud country music and give you peanuts and you just throw the shells on the floor

[trippledigitss]

That looks a bit bigger than the one I saw. I'll have to go down there and see if I can pull anymore out. Thanks guys!

[sirfunkeybut]

heres a big one i caught a couple weeks ago. its the biggest one ive ever seen

[jackmaster]

if any of you guys get out to ft lewis, muck creek that runs through east ft lewis is flat loaded with crawdads, you will have to hide your pot or camo it from passerbys so they dont walk off with it, but i have also had alot of luck using bacon and put it in a little bait box so them little dude cant walk off with your bait

[Tony]

When we are over hunting during Archery season we usually go back behind Whistling Jacks on the Naches river for a hour or so and catch 100-150 between 4 or 5 of us. These are nothing to big but fun to do with the kids.