Live crawfish - pond or belle river

Basin/Belle River every time.

Pond gets hard.

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Pond are not hard right now

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Thank you.

I didn't say they were though.

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Just for general knowledge, what is the difference between pond and basin / belle river in general ?

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I have no idea from a biology perspective.
I just find belle river and basin crawfish are cleaner, and to me, the meat tastes better.
I have heard tons of opinions on why that could be. Nutrients in the river and basin vs. pond, but I really have no clue.

Could all be bullshite though, but that is what I buy when it's available.

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If they were both cleaned the same and boiled the same, you wouldn’t know the difference.

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I disagree at this point. I have always done pond bugs but last year late in the season I got some basin ones and I could tell a difference. Both tasty. You have two growing in vastly different environments and food consumption there will be a difference imo.

I plan to do some more basins this year…you know…for science.

I stand corrected then.


In the Baton Rouge area, I never heard someone mention pond crawfish until the last 20 years or so.

I normally don't care and can't really tell a difference, but for Good Friday we ended up with a couple sacks of spillway. Not sure where that person was fishing, but at least half of both sacks were the white river crawfish, which are terrible to me. I've gotten a few in sacks before and it's not a big deal but this was the first time it was an almost even mix of white river and red swamp crawfish. The white river tend to have a green tint to the meat. I'm not sure if that's from the "fat" and other guts or if it's just the meat itself, but it sucks either way. I always assumed they come from a mostly sandy bottom.

I've never had that problem with pond. Maybe a couple here or there but never a quantifiable amount as ponds are usually seeded with other pond crawfish.