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Posted on 1/21/24 at 3:27 pm to OweO
With lent starting on Feb 13th you can’t wait to start fishing until March
Posted on 1/21/24 at 3:36 pm to SWLA92
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With crawfish forecasted not picking up til April, this will be one of the strangest Lents on record with low supply.
Lots of fish fry’s instead of boils imo that or boiled shrimp. Crabs been stupid expensive for the last few years so they out. Also any ditch with water on the roadside gonna be full of people and drop nets
Posted on 1/21/24 at 5:06 pm to BurningHeart
I love some crawfish but I can do without they are a want not a need.
Wait till the basins overflowing and go catch yourself some sacks and boil em up
Wait till the basins overflowing and go catch yourself some sacks and boil em up
Posted on 1/21/24 at 5:36 pm to Yukon7
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As you can see in below graphic, it happens quite often. And it looks as if recent years have had warmer low temps than history has shown.
The Lafayette Regional Airport has recorded an annual low below 20° F 8 times since 1980 (including this year).
That's 8 out of 44 years. That's less than 1 in 5 years. I wouldn't define that as "quite often".
ETA: and only 5 times between 1950 and 1979. So 13 times in 74 years.
This post was edited on 1/21/24 at 5:38 pm
Posted on 1/21/24 at 5:55 pm to BurningHeart
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LSU Ag Center Crawfish Specialist Mark Shirley
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The other unknown Shirley says is wild crawfish in the Atchafalaya Basin
Maybe we can find a real specialist and let this Gomer go? A guy claiming to be a crawfish specialist who hasn't gathered facts aboot the basin is just collecting a check. The basin is the motherland of crawfish production.
Posted on 1/21/24 at 6:04 pm to Hangit
Yeah, because there is someone out there that knows all about what's going on in the basin and its 15% share of the state's production right now.
Is anyone even fishing it yet?
Posted on 1/21/24 at 6:14 pm to CoachChappy
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It’s been one of the weirdest weather years ever. Unreal heat and drought. Now a freezing start to the catch season. It’s going to be a terrible year
21 upvotes, but the next baw thread bitching about climate change scientists will also get a ton of upvotes.
Maybe one day yall will figure it out
Posted on 1/21/24 at 6:22 pm to Cowboyfan89
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Yeah, because there is someone out there that knows all about what's going on in the basin and its 15% share of the state's production right now.
I don't expect you to know, living in LC and working the daily grind. The fricking CRAWFISH expert at the state's flagship university is a different story. He needs to know, when doing an interview about it.
Posted on 1/21/24 at 6:27 pm to Cowboyfan89
Never claimed it was every year it gets below 20, it”freezes” every year. So that means it gets below 32F just about every year. As another poster said, it doesn’t kill the crawfish, only slows down their growth for a short period of time. This freeze for less than a week hardly had a blimp of effect on the crawfish.
Posted on 1/21/24 at 6:42 pm to Yukon7
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Never claimed it was every year it gets below 20, it”freezes” every year. So that means it gets below 32F just about every year.
I mean, he clearly wasn't referring to below 32F weather when he said "the freeze next week".
But you knew that already.
Regardless, I don't know why Shirley played that up the way he did. He's said it himself plenty of times in other interviews that they just settle to the bottom of ponds and the catch drops off during that period.
I'm sure they'll go back to the pitiful catch they were having with the spring-like weather we will have this week.
Posted on 1/21/24 at 7:04 pm to Hangit
How much does the motherland basin produce every year? I doubt it’s more than pond raised.
Posted on 1/21/24 at 7:06 pm to BurningHeart
Shirley he can't be serious.
Posted on 1/21/24 at 7:21 pm to bayoudude
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Lots of fish fry’s instead of boils imo that or boiled shrimp. Crabs been stupid expensive for the last few years so they out. Also any ditch with water on the roadside gonna be full of people and drop nets
The ponds that were stocked and managed for crawfish production are very low on production but some random ditch is going to be full of them ?
did these ditches somehow miss the D4 drought we had half the year?
Posted on 1/21/24 at 8:03 pm to SWLA92
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I bet there’s not 500 sacks daily being caught right now in Louisiana
That's probably a low number, but I'm not arguing with you.
Some farmers are seeing a little bit of production.
I know a farmer in Vermilion parish who harvested 60 sacks recently, and I was very surprised to hear that. He's getting 8.25 per lb live from his buyer.
Posted on 1/21/24 at 8:03 pm to BurningHeart
crawfish boils this year
Posted on 1/21/24 at 8:04 pm to BurningHeart
This is exactly what Big Crawfish wants us to think.
Posted on 1/21/24 at 8:18 pm to whiskey over ice
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crawfish boils this year
My wife and I have our eye on this low-hours 2022 model. We have the 84-month financing just about sewn up. We told them the payments have to be under $10 a month. I don't know what we will do if the deal falls through.
Posted on 1/21/24 at 8:23 pm to G Vice
How many acres did he fish?
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