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Catching wild crawfish advice
Posted on 1/23/18 at 10:38 pm
Posted on 1/23/18 at 10:38 pm
This is an old photo. But I have a creek that floods into a pasture bottom and usually holds water year round.
I always see crawfish mudpiles/holes along side the drainage areas and in the low spots of the pasture. Not my pic but they look just like this...
I've tied bacon fat to fishing line before and pulled some out of the holes. Probably well over 100 mudpiles in the immediate area. But the crawfish are not as red as the ones you find in stores. More orange-dark gray in color
Would it be worth building say 10-20 pillow traps and set them later in February? What type of bait would I need?
Also why do they build mudpiles? To get more oxygen?
I always see crawfish mudpiles/holes along side the drainage areas and in the low spots of the pasture. Not my pic but they look just like this...
I've tied bacon fat to fishing line before and pulled some out of the holes. Probably well over 100 mudpiles in the immediate area. But the crawfish are not as red as the ones you find in stores. More orange-dark gray in color
Would it be worth building say 10-20 pillow traps and set them later in February? What type of bait would I need?
Also why do they build mudpiles? To get more oxygen?
This post was edited on 1/23/18 at 10:40 pm
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Posted on 1/23/18 at 10:57 pm to texag7
Probably cheaper to buy a few traps online. Use any stinky meat.
Posted on 1/23/18 at 11:14 pm to texag7
Go to any local feed store. Buy wire and crawfish trap bait sticks. Cheap and easy
Posted on 1/24/18 at 3:36 am to texag7
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Would it be worth building say 10-20 pillow traps and set them later in February? What type of bait would I need?
Also why do they build mudpiles? To get more oxygen?
Try the feed store pellets and shad, catfish heads, melt, etc. They will bite good on feed and then all of a sudden they wont. You switch to fish and they come back. Just try different baits.
They build those mud piles because they burrow. The taller the chimney the deeper they are. Females raise their young in there and also it keeps the predators from getting them. BUt yes it helps with the oxygen also.
Posted on 1/24/18 at 5:44 am to texag7
Those are likely painted devil or another chimney building crawfish making those mounds.
The red swamps and white river craefish are what we eat commercially. They will probably migrate into that area when it floods
Get some pillow traps or you can make your own outbid wires mesh. Any cheap meat will work. Fish heads work too but snakes and amphiumas will be more attracted to fish heads
The red swamps and white river craefish are what we eat commercially. They will probably migrate into that area when it floods
Get some pillow traps or you can make your own outbid wires mesh. Any cheap meat will work. Fish heads work too but snakes and amphiumas will be more attracted to fish heads
Posted on 1/24/18 at 6:09 am to texag7
Squat over it right after dropping a deuce without wiping
Posted on 1/24/18 at 7:26 am to texag7
looks eerily similar to a place i used to run traps.
Posted on 1/24/18 at 7:52 am to Ron Cheramie
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snakes and amphiumas
Crawfish are eaten by amphiiumas which are eaten by mud snakes....it's the circle of life!
Posted on 1/24/18 at 10:05 am to Sasquatch Smash
useless info the crawfish scoop mud up with hteir tails crawl up and place the mud on top ya can tell how big the crawfish is by the size of the clumps that form the chiminy
Posted on 1/24/18 at 10:14 am to Captain Ray
When we get a envie' for crawfish we jump in the suv go catch a few lbs and either boil em or peel em for stew. It's really easy to catch a half a bucket full enough for me and peg. This video is long but shows how we set up the nets and catch em then bring em home fur supper.
LINK
even a slow day like that was we still had fun and came home with supper
LINK
even a slow day like that was we still had fun and came home with supper
Posted on 1/24/18 at 3:09 pm to saintsfan1977
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shad
We caught ~15 lbs a few weeks ago and used this
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