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Crawfish range
Posted on 3/10/19 at 8:15 am
Posted on 3/10/19 at 8:15 am
What is the range of crawfish in the south?
Are they just in the Mississippi basin? I’d assume not? I’ve never heard of anyone catching them in Alabama and the Florida panhandle, enough to eat I mean but why not?
Are they just in the Mississippi basin? I’d assume not? I’ve never heard of anyone catching them in Alabama and the Florida panhandle, enough to eat I mean but why not?
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Posted on 3/10/19 at 8:18 am to baldona
I’ve caight crawfish in Lake Tahoe and I have a buddy who caught them in PA. I know Michigan has had an “infestation” of them the last few years.
Posted on 3/10/19 at 8:23 am to CoachChappy
Oh they are absolutely other places, but I mean why are they only trapped and consumed in Louisiana? I’m talking like upper Mobile Bay, low country of South Carolina, and other swampy areas in the south? Are there enough to trap inother states?
Posted on 3/10/19 at 8:24 am to baldona
I’d bet money they are there. Whether or not people are fishing them, I have no clue.
Posted on 3/10/19 at 8:37 am to CoachChappy
Saw this in the Mattapoisett river here in Massachusetts.
Posted on 3/10/19 at 8:39 am to baldona
we have to types in louisiana that are commercially caught
white river crawfish and red swamp crawfish
their ranges overlap in a bunch of places
we have the perfect area for them to be caught in abundance which is a giant floodplain
I would imagine they would be thick in some areas of Alabama and Florida that are known to flood seasonally
white river crawfish and red swamp crawfish
their ranges overlap in a bunch of places
we have the perfect area for them to be caught in abundance which is a giant floodplain
I would imagine they would be thick in some areas of Alabama and Florida that are known to flood seasonally
Posted on 3/10/19 at 8:44 am to Ron Cheramie
I'm in the Florida Panhandle, that's why I ask. I've never seen or heard of anyone around here or in the Mobile Bay area trapping them. I've never seen traps sold outside of Louisiana. I can't think of a reason our flood plains and delta's wouldn't have them? Maybe not as thick, but I'd think they'd be there to where you could trap enough to make some dinner right?
Posted on 3/10/19 at 8:49 am to baldona
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I'd think they'd be there to where you could trap enough to make some dinner right?
If you have fresh water, you have crawfish. Get or make some traps and try it out.
Posted on 3/10/19 at 9:09 am to baldona
I know some folks that trapped them on Escambia. Said they couldn't find any big enough to make it worth it.
Posted on 3/10/19 at 9:36 am to HouseofWaffles
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I know some folks that trapped them on Escambia. Said they couldn't find any big enough to make it worth it
This is what I’m thinking, why would that be though? Different species?
Posted on 3/10/19 at 9:43 am to baldona
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different species
yes there are hundreds of species in the US
we have at least 50 here in Louisiana
Posted on 3/10/19 at 9:54 am to Ron Cheramie
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50
50!? :i dont believe you:
No, I actually do and that's cray crayfish.
Posted on 3/10/19 at 10:16 am to baldona
the Clampetts ate crawdads in the Ozarks or Tennessee, or wherever
This post was edited on 3/10/19 at 10:21 am
Posted on 3/10/19 at 11:07 am to Hooligan's Ghost
We catch the fire out of em in the upper mobile delta off the alabama and tombigbee rivers in the sloughs after the water drops out. Just like we used to in LA
Posted on 3/10/19 at 11:36 am to baldona
Man, I'm pretty sure people trap the mess out of them around Bayou La Batre and the Mobile Delta.
Posted on 3/10/19 at 2:37 pm to jdani11
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We catch the fire out of em in the upper mobile delta off the alabama and tombigbee rivers in the sloughs after the water drops out. Just like we used to in LA
Interesting, good deal. I don't doubt it at all I just like I said have never seen anyone doing it or heard about it. Been in the area for 20 years. I don't see any reason why they wouldn't be in all of the deltas through the south.
Posted on 3/10/19 at 4:10 pm to baldona
Alabama has 97 different crayfish varieties. I don’t think we have the right ones to eat though.
Posted on 3/10/19 at 4:33 pm to baldona
Last spring I would buy sacks from a guy that got them in the upper Mobile Delta.
He would usually have 30-40 sacks every Saturday
He would usually have 30-40 sacks every Saturday
Posted on 3/10/19 at 5:09 pm to Ron Cheramie
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we have at least 50 here in Louisian
Pretty sure it's more like 30 or so different species. At least that's where it stood 10 years ago when Jerry Walls' book was published.
Procambarus clarkii, or the red swamp crawfish, is found from Louisiana to the Florida panhandle, and up most of the Misssippi Basin into Illinois and even Ohio. As far as the question as to why it's never really been eaten elsewhere...It boils down to economics. Crawfish farming started in the late 1800s as another "crop" in the rice fields. It was also a cheap and abundant source of protein during hard economic times.
Posted on 3/10/19 at 9:43 pm to baldona
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What is the range of crawfish
Quick story from my youth. We lived in Ruidoso, NM from 1979-1981. We fished Bonita Lake for trout and an occasional smallmouth. We noticed that there would be crawfish come and start trying to eat any fish on stringers. It is 1980ish with the stringers.
Anyway, my dad bought us a minnow seine net and we weighted it down with rocks and tied bait at several areas on the net.
My brother and I would wade out and pull it up loaded with crawfish.
We had an ice chest full before Mr. Greenjeans told us that no "swimming" was allowed in the lake and made us quit.
We boiled what we had and our neighbors loved it.
Moral of the story is you can take a Cajun out of LA but can't take LA out of the Cajun!
Good childhood memories.
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