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re: how much dead crawfish is ok?
Posted on 4/9/17 at 8:48 am to CHEDBALLZ
Posted on 4/9/17 at 8:48 am to CHEDBALLZ
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Sidenote. My dad bought some crawfish from Seago in Houma. Had about 7-8 pounds of dead ones in 1 sack. He put them in the sack and brought them back to them. The dude argued and said that there's no way he bought them there and that's not his crawfish back and forth. My dad said all I want is these dead ones to replaced with live ones. Dude still didn't budge. My dad emptied the sack of dead ones in the lobby and walked all over them. Owner told my dad, you're banned from here, get out my store. My dad said I banned myself from here when you sold me dead crawfish, you didn't accomplish anything. Never went back.
Sounds like a scene from The Waterboy.
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Posted on 4/9/17 at 8:48 am to JasonL79
Of two sacks yesterday, I may have had 3-5 dead. They were in excellent shape.
Posted on 4/9/17 at 4:56 pm to Rust Cohle
I farm crawfish. When we eat from our own ponds, I might find a few dead ones per sack. I clean as best I can all the dead ones in the field. Lazy fishermen won't. If you run traps daily/every other day you'll have fewer dead ones.
A few lbs sounds like either old crawfish(stored too long) or crappy fisherman
A few lbs sounds like either old crawfish(stored too long) or crappy fisherman
Posted on 4/9/17 at 11:11 pm to DVA Tailgater
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I don't believe you
Where the frick do you guys buy your crawfish?
Holy shite. I boiled 2 sacks yesterday and had 1 dead. Y'all need to quit buying from places that hold shite from Monday until Friday during lent so they can have enough.
Posted on 4/10/17 at 12:00 pm to Fratigerguy
That can't be true if you were really going through them. Many years of boiling and getting them from a wide variety of sources, I expect a handful of dead and another few crushed/stabbed per sack. Not a big deal.
Posted on 4/10/17 at 5:54 pm to Havoc
I just use the dead ones to attract the flies
Posted on 4/10/17 at 10:19 pm to Havoc
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That can't be true if you were really going through them
bullshite.
Posted on 4/11/17 at 9:38 am to Fratigerguy
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quote:That can't be true if you were really going through them
bullshite.
If I had to guess, he is probably saying most people do not really pick through them that good.
Most markets/restaurants that cook them will go through them on a table or a conveyer belt to ensure that all the dead crawfish are taken out.
When you are doing it in an ice chest or something similar, sometimes the dead ones get trapped under the live ones and cannot float up.
Posted on 4/15/17 at 8:26 pm to Fratigerguy
Figured I would bump this. With it being Easter weekend, and the demand for crawfish is the highest that it will be all year, it should be no secret that fishermen, buyers, and retailers will start holding crawfish over from much earlier in the week to have enough to sell. This can certainly lead to some dead loss in sacks.
I picked up 3 sacks yesterday, the 14th, for Good Friday. With the earlier conversation we had in this thread, I transferred one ice scoop at a time from one wash bucket to another so I could go through them very well to count the dead. By the way, the 3 sacks I had, 2 were caught on the 9th, and one on the 10th. In the first sack caught on the 9th, out of 35 pounds, I had 2 dead crawfish. In the other sack from the 9th, out of 34 pounds, I had 7 dead crawfish. In the sack from the 10th, out of 35 pounds, I had zero dead crawfish. So in summation, out of 104 pounds of crawfish that were 5 days old, I had 9 dead crawfish total. Having a couple pounds dead in a sack isn't normal, or acceptable.
I picked up 3 sacks yesterday, the 14th, for Good Friday. With the earlier conversation we had in this thread, I transferred one ice scoop at a time from one wash bucket to another so I could go through them very well to count the dead. By the way, the 3 sacks I had, 2 were caught on the 9th, and one on the 10th. In the first sack caught on the 9th, out of 35 pounds, I had 2 dead crawfish. In the other sack from the 9th, out of 34 pounds, I had 7 dead crawfish. In the sack from the 10th, out of 35 pounds, I had zero dead crawfish. So in summation, out of 104 pounds of crawfish that were 5 days old, I had 9 dead crawfish total. Having a couple pounds dead in a sack isn't normal, or acceptable.
Posted on 4/15/17 at 8:43 pm to Fratigerguy
My dad got some yesterday (70lbs) from HEB in Houston. 10lbs of dead crawfish that he returned to the store
This post was edited on 4/15/17 at 8:45 pm
Posted on 4/16/17 at 12:36 am to CE Tiger
To be fair, I'm buying from a fisherman who catches them, brings them right to the shed, weighs them and puts them in the cooler. They don't sit on a pallet waiting for a truck, they aren't getting stacked 5 high, they aren't going from cooler to truck, varying temps, etc. they get handled to catch, weigh, and then sell. It's easy to keep them alive like that.
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