Crawfish

[AR-15]

Anybody on here trap Crawfish and cook them up

 

[tikkalover]

Never cooked em or ate em, but as a kid we had a friend who's dad did. We would tie washers on a string and go down to the river where the shore was rip rapped and hang the washer in the crevasses of the rocks and catch a gallon pail full and give to him.

 

[bigcatpike]

A few but we never got many. Very simple to clean and prepare and great eats.

 

[Apres]

I caught quite a few in the bwca one time and steamed them up in my percolator. They were not that large, and they didn't taste great but I didn't season them or anything. It was a great one-time experience.

 

[MSA]

Yup all the time. I keep em in a bait tank for a week so the run outta poop, then boil em in crab boil with corn cobs, sausage, potato's, n mushrooms

 

[AR-15]

MSA, that's what they say, to keep in fresh water and even feed them frozen peas, then let them clean out, going to try a trap a few

 

[MSA]

Trap? Pshhh....just go find a rocky coffee dam at night and scoop em up in a dip net. They start gathering n climbing up the dams and wet rocks at sunset. I can usually fill half a five gallon bucket in an hour or two.

 

[AR-15]

No coffer dams around here will try that on the face of one of dams that are rip rapped

 

[MSA]

Or anywhere there's rocky rapids in a creek or river.

 

[Lou63]

I have caught them at Northgate and eaten them, boil them up with some crab boil, taters, corn etc. but they are better when they get cleaned out for a few days.