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re: multiple crawfish batches
Posted on 3/14/16 at 10:40 am to bossflossjr
Posted on 3/14/16 at 10:40 am to bossflossjr
quote:small crawfish
34-38 lbs.
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Posted on 3/14/16 at 10:41 am to Honky Lips
If you're commercially boiling, I'll agree with you. Consistency for every batch is important like Sammys. If you're doing it personally, the only consistency I look for is that they're delicious. Ours consistently get better through the batches.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 10:46 am to lilwineman
I used to do Zat's pro boil, then switched to Louisiana, then made my way to Swampfire. For now, I've really enjoyed it. My next move will be swamp dust.
But I will definitely give your method a try one time.
But I will definitely give your method a try one time.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 11:04 am to Fonzarelli
Try Chackbay with some extra regular red pepper thrown in to your taste. 
Posted on 3/14/16 at 11:22 am to lilwineman
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Link to the pouches that barely anyone knows exists sadly:
Holy shite dude. Exactly how old are you? You know, there was a time when that was all we had to boil crawfish with. The commercial powder mixes are relatively new, historically speaking. That stuff is still on every Walmart store shelf. To another poster who said that 34-38 pounds means small crawfish...that's actually not accurate, in a general sense. For example, there are two different size purple sacks that you can get from the warehouses. One is stitched inside, and one stiched outside. The difference is close to 5 pounds. And it depends how the crawfish are running. When they are banging 10 pounds to the trap, you're lucky to get 33-34 pounds in. When they are 1-2 pounds, you can fit 40 pounds of the same size crawfish. When the market is slow, buyers are asking fishermen to cram every crawfish they can. When it's busy as crap, run it loose.
This post was edited on 3/14/16 at 11:30 am
Posted on 3/14/16 at 11:50 am to OTIS2
Will do!
Posted on 3/14/16 at 11:56 am to Fratigerguy
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When the market is slow, buyers are asking fishermen to cram every crawfish they can. When it's busy as crap, run it loose.
I have never heard this before. Every buyer I have ever dealt with hates 40lb sacks whether it's busy or not because it makes the crawfish look smaller when they are crammed in there
Posted on 3/14/16 at 11:57 am to malvin
I like 40lb sacks, but I'm no supplier
Posted on 3/14/16 at 12:43 pm to Fratigerguy
quote:I didn't know there were different sized sacks.
To another poster who said that 34-38 pounds means small crawfish...that's actually not accurate, in a general sense. For example, there are two different size purple sacks that you can get from the warehouses. One is stitched inside, and one stiched outside. The difference is close to 5 pounds. And it depends how the crawfish are running. When they are banging 10 pounds to the trap, you're lucky to get 33-34 pounds in. When they are 1-2 pounds, you can fit 40 pounds of the same size crawfish. When the market is slow, buyers are asking fishermen to cram every crawfish they can. When it's busy as crap, run it loose.
I though the differences had to do with the size of the crawfish. Smaller crawfish pack in more densly than larger crawfish, so the smaller the crawfish, the more the filled sack weighs.
This post was edited on 3/14/16 at 12:45 pm
Posted on 3/14/16 at 1:02 pm to Fonzarelli
i like those sacks around 26-30#s
This post was edited on 3/14/16 at 1:02 pm
Posted on 3/14/16 at 1:19 pm to CarRamrod
since the topic has shifted. i'd like to say the whole premise of having to buy a sack of crawfish never made sense to me. i can buy shrimp by the pound, live crabs by the dozen (dont have to buy the whole bushel). dont understand why its not mainstream to buy live crawfish by the pound. i'd be buying way more crawfish if this were true.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 1:45 pm to Honky Lips
interesting thought. It never occurred to me to think about it like that.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 1:51 pm to CarRamrod
I think it probably has to do with the fact that Crawfish boils are a big social gathering, compared to shrimp ones
Posted on 3/14/16 at 4:43 pm to malvin
early in the year, yes. Later in the year when stuff starts blocking up, not so much. And then it depends on what the buyer is doing with it. If he is trying to retail, that is probably more likely. But if you're shipping, say, 350 sacks on an order, those 5 pounds to the sack extra surely help to bring in more money per sack, and help some with getting rid of everything. And in reality, it's more like 3-4 pounds to the sack, but you get the picture. On 1000 sacks, that's basically 100 sacks less to get rid of.....or 100 sacks more you have for Easter...it's all a game. Price collusion at its finest. How the crawfishermen of this state haven't unionized yet is beyond me. The pond fishermen will tell you it's because of the basin guys. The basin guys will tell you it's the pond fishermen that are the problem.
The pond fishermen will tell you it's because of the basin guys. The basin guys will tell you it's the pond fishermen that are the problem. Posted on 3/14/16 at 4:55 pm to Stadium Rat
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I though the differences had to do with the size of the crawfish. Smaller crawfish pack in more densly than larger crawfish, so the smaller the crawfish, the more the filled sack weighs.
I mean, this is true to an extent. I was just saying that I have seen some downright monsters in 39-40 pound sacks before. And I've seen some peanuts too. But there are sacks that will go all the way down to 20 pounds. Some little yellow suckers.
Don't always discount the size of the crawfish based on the poundage of the sacks. As I said in an earlier post, later in the year we will start selling the bigger sacks so that they can have heavy sacks. It can get tough in June to sell stuff. But to prove your point, I will say this....and most posters here were probably too young to remember when Belle River hit big about 10-12 years ago. I was getting sacks out of there that were 28-30 pounds....packed. Nearly every single sack was 100% #1 selects. And that's doing them an injustice because they only have to grade out an inch to be #1. There were thousands of traps destroyed that year from guys having to cut the flues out so the crawfish could get in. Guys would come in and complain that they would go run and have two crawfish in the trap. One stuck in each side. If a fishermen brought in a sack that was 50% select, he had to go find bigger crawfish. Crazy!!! I counted a sack one time for shits and giggle....128 crawfish. Don't remember the weight, but just that it was crammed tight. They were running 4 to the pound. I haven't seen anything close to that since. The forebay was close that year in size, but nothing like those.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 6:27 pm to Fratigerguy
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Price collusion at its finest.
The price is set between about 3 big buyers and everybody else has to keep up
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The pond fishermen will tell you it's because of the basin guys. The basin guys will tell you it's the pond fishermen that are the problem.
I gather that you are a basin guy
But seriously I think the price is lower than it could be every year because everybody around here with 10 acres behind their house decided to put crawfish there and they flood the market
Posted on 3/14/16 at 6:35 pm to malvin
Yeah that's the collusion part of it.
You would gather wrong. I simply said that both sets of fishermen blame the other. How does that make me a basin guy? I have actually fished both, and still do from time to time. I actually bought for many years from both ponds and basin/river.
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I gather that you are a basin guy
You would gather wrong. I simply said that both sets of fishermen blame the other. How does that make me a basin guy? I have actually fished both, and still do from time to time. I actually bought for many years from both ponds and basin/river.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 6:40 pm to Fratigerguy
I was just talking shite
I haven't done much with crawfish for quite a few years but I know a lot of people that have quite a bit. I'm debating getting back into it and fishing some of our family land next year
I haven't done much with crawfish for quite a few years but I know a lot of people that have quite a bit. I'm debating getting back into it and fishing some of our family land next year
Posted on 3/14/16 at 6:50 pm to malvin
Yeah that sounds like fun and I have been thinking about it too. Just have to get the kids grown up a bit. No family life when you're dealing with fishermen and wholesalers 20 hours a day. But man the money is good.
Posted on 3/14/16 at 10:13 pm to Fratigerguy
I think one of the Patrick guys probably close to 18 years ago in plaquemine was featured in the news for the average size of his crawfish. I believe he skipped farming one year and the following year had absolute monsters. He was selling them up the east coast as miniature lobsters for some absurd price. His son and a guy I went to school with ran them daily, right off of hwy 75 out there. Straight run crawfish we have had this year have been pretty as well. No complaints yet in the sacks we have seen.
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