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Crawfishing flooded Mississippi River Levee bank?
Posted on 3/11/19 at 3:40 pm
Posted on 3/11/19 at 3:40 pm
anyone ever set crawfish traps on the levee of the MS River when the river is up high? I've heard of people doing this and killing them this way in college, the river water seems too cold for crawfish to me, but I'm not a crawfish expert
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Posted on 3/11/19 at 4:04 pm to lodgedup
That water is cold enough to put your wiener into hibernation
Posted on 3/11/19 at 4:41 pm to lodgedup
Late last spring I ran into a guy in lower St. Bernard Parish that was setting crawfish traps in the batture down near Braithwaite when the river was high from the spring thaw up north.
He did show me he had caught some, but they were medium at best in size and he didn't really seem to be catching all that many.
He told me he mainly used them for baiting his lines for catfish, so he really wasn't trying to get enough for a boil I would suppose.
He did show me he had caught some, but they were medium at best in size and he didn't really seem to be catching all that many.
He told me he mainly used them for baiting his lines for catfish, so he really wasn't trying to get enough for a boil I would suppose.
Posted on 3/11/19 at 5:39 pm to gumbo2176
Ex gfs little bro used to do it all the time south of BR.
Cleaned up
Cleaned up
Posted on 3/12/19 at 12:20 am to X123F45
It is done. I just don't know if the cold water will screw it up right now. I would think it would be too cold.
Posted on 3/12/19 at 9:36 am to omegaman66
If I not mistaken, the 2011 flood in April, people were going north of Vicksburg and scooping them up with nets and coming back with pickup beds full of crawfish. Now that I’m retired, if that event happens again, color me headed to the levee.
Posted on 3/12/19 at 2:43 pm to saltwaterdawg
I was driving home on 3127 once and a irregular high tide forced all the crawfish to cross the highway to the swamp/ditch on the north side the road. Millions of crawfish on the road.
This post was edited on 3/12/19 at 3:18 pm
Posted on 3/12/19 at 7:53 pm to Nado Jenkins83
Saw that once on road that runs along I-55 between Laplace and Pontchatoula. Never realized there was that many crawfish in that swamp/marsh.
Posted on 3/12/19 at 8:49 pm to lodgedup
We used to set some nets on the levees on the LaPlace side of the Bonnet Carre spillway and caught quite a few.
The best was crawfishing in the ponds between the locks and the river after the river had gone down. My dad would wake us up after his 3-11 shift and take us out there at midnight. We would be able to catch 3-4 sacks in a few hours.
The only problem was dodging the mosquitos and leeches.
The best was crawfishing in the ponds between the locks and the river after the river had gone down. My dad would wake us up after his 3-11 shift and take us out there at midnight. We would be able to catch 3-4 sacks in a few hours.
The only problem was dodging the mosquitos and leeches.
Posted on 3/13/19 at 12:17 am to ruzil
You went at night?
Posted on 3/13/19 at 6:46 pm to lsuson
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You went at night?
Yes we always did. I thought this was some magical technique, but I asked my dad about it when he was close to the end and he said we went at night because it was too hot during the day!
Posted on 3/13/19 at 6:53 pm to ruzil
Well I couldn't help myself and set a few test pillow traps along the levee here in Uptown Nola for a few days. Just picked them up and scratched. Go figure, had to walk in the water a bit to pick them up and thought my toes were going to freeze off
Posted on 3/13/19 at 7:46 pm to ruzil
Screw that! Seen too many snakes out there.
Posted on 3/13/19 at 7:47 pm to lodgedup
I imagine 90% if the crawfish supplied right now are pond crawfish. All the rivers are high and cold making it tough to catch crawfish
Posted on 3/13/19 at 8:39 pm to lodgedup
The air temp dropped 15 degrees when I went across BC the other day. It’s going to be a while before they start running in river.
Posted on 3/13/19 at 8:43 pm to lodgedup
Not to HiJack but one time my dad took us as little kids somewhere in S Louisiana and there were crawfish literally walking across the blacktop road and the road ditches were full of them.
Not sure where it was but it was during a flood and we caught 100+ lbs easy
Not sure where it was but it was during a flood and we caught 100+ lbs easy
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