re: Basket for 100 qt. crawfish pot

The nylon bag idea doesn't sound like a terrible idea, but I've always used a basket.

I have seen a family friend just dump the crawfish straight into the water -- no basket or anything, and then use something like this to scoop the crawfish out:


I used to use something like that for catching sand crabs in GI when I was a kid, so I was pretty surprised when I saw him doing this for crawfish. It seemed to work though and he was able to get the crawfish out surprising fast.