Biggest live crawfish?

Why the "biggest"?
Never enjoyed eat those hard shelled bastards

Don't do it, big means hard and tough

Big is not better. Personally, this late in the year, I'd look for small to medium because big ones this late in the year will be extremely unfortunate to peel and hard to season. I suspect finding medium crawfish this late in the year with as wet a year as its been will actually be harder than finding fricking mini-lobsters.

In short, this is the time to look for crabs, not crawfish but that's just me. These frickers in TX will buy crawfish in restaurants into August and I simply don't get it because they are predictably shitty to eat...

i guess my point was also to say that you're unlikely to find small to mediums anywhere. That said, are your people going to be comparing options between stores to prove a point? Otherwise, you're going to be getting "large crawfish," it's just nature....

The spillway.
50 minute drive will put you in Pigeon coming from Baton Rouge. There's a few wholesalers there that I get my bugs from. Last weekend they were $1/# and very big. Old lady that fishes with her husband told me she saw the biggest crawfish she'd seen in 50 years of fishing the day before.

I would just call around and ask for select. Some seafood places to call: capital city crawfish, Tony's seafood, jimbos seafood, LA boilers

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I was just asked about where to get the biggest crawfish. Apparently, that is the mission. Open to new ideas though. Full disclosure: not from LA, married into So. La family

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I stay away from big crawfish. no juice when you suck the head & meat in tail doesn't come out easy sometime. give me medium crawfish anyday

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I stay away from big crawfish. no juice when you suck the head & meat in tail doesn't come out easy sometime. give me medium crawfish anyday

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I like a medium crawfish too in many cases, and don't mean to open another "this is how you boil" debate, but that's what timing crawfish will get you. If you soak till they sink, they all get juice in the head and have flavor. Boiled a sack of XL a few days ago and they took about 55 minutes soak time to achieve desired result. The bigger and harder they are typically, the longer the soak is required.

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Boiled a sack of XL a few days ago and they took about 55 minutes soak time to achieve desired result

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I got 2 sacks from La Lobsters across the river this past weekend. They were a perfect mix of medium to large with a handful of really large thrown in there. I had no problem properly cooking, soaking, or peeling them, and they turned out tasty. It's still pretty easy to find qualify crawfish.