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Crawfish size and quality
Posted on 5/15/25 at 3:40 pm
Posted on 5/15/25 at 3:40 pm
Squeezing out one more crawfish boil this weekend. With this hot weather this week, any word if the crawfish are beginning to get a hard shell?
This post was edited on 5/15/25 at 4:00 pm
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Posted on 5/15/25 at 3:43 pm to tigerpilot
They were a mix yesterday. Most of the large were tough shelled, smaller (mid-sized?) were good. Catered event.
Posted on 5/15/25 at 3:56 pm to tigerpilot
Ask the supplier where they are getting them. I find pond harvested don't get as hard shelled as the ones wild caught or out of Belle River. That always signaled the crawfish season nearing the end when those hard shelled SOB's came to market.
Posted on 5/15/25 at 3:59 pm to gumbo2176
My place has both pond and belle river…I ordered pond as they been much better this year than the river.
Posted on 5/15/25 at 4:09 pm to tigerpilot
Spillway is very nice and soft right now, alot are still greenish brown and haven't got that dark red color yet, they are fat and sweet, this is around the charenton area
Posted on 5/15/25 at 5:34 pm to tigerpilot
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Squeezing out one more crawfish boil this weekend. With this hot weather this week, any word if the crawfish are beginning to get a hard shell?
The spillway is fine right now. And you should be fine until at least early to mid June.
Posted on 5/15/25 at 7:11 pm to BigBinBR
Thanks! I’ll let y'all know how they came out. Boiling 50lbs and 20lbs shrimp on Saturday. Btw…I used the stalecracker shrimp boil instructions a few weeks ago. Came out perfect.
Posted on 5/15/25 at 7:20 pm to r3lay3r
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Most of the large were tough shelled,mid-sized
This was last Sunday boil for us. Damn good eatin'
Posted on 5/16/25 at 8:27 am to jmon
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This was last Sunday boil for us. Damn good eatin'
I'm doing one more boil and will do two sacks about 35 lbs. each. One for eating and one for picking so I can make crawfish bisque-----the right way and have enough to make some After the Boil Soup along with having some tail meat for crawfish bread, fettuccini or maybe some homemade crawfish pies.
Can't do it this weekend but will aim to do it on Monday so the shells can be picked up on Tuesday when the trash is picked up in my area. I hate the smell of days old crawfish shells roasting in the sun.
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