Crawfishing

Set them in different depths, see what depth is productive, switch all to that depth

I don't have much trap experience, I use set nets and bait with melt

Might still be a little early for wild crawfish. Probably will be getting good around this time next month. For bait, I would use either melt or an oily fish like pogey. I find the pogey holds up a little better than the melt and is easier to deal with.

Cow spleen.

Works the best as far as bait goes. That and fish heads.

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Dude it's too cold for them up here right now.

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Even with all the rain that has flooded the creeks?

Some bloody arse cheap waste stuff

pogies. gets em erry time

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Just any creek or do you look for certain vegetation, depth, etc?

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Flooded hardwood bottom has worked out best. But I've had friends set nets along a roadside ditch that gets flooded and have good results.

Movement/current in the water is best. And rising water is even better...once the water level starts to go down, the crawfish seem to turn off their feeding frenzy like a light switch.

For nets, no deeper than 18" to 24" or you'll lose your nets. For traps, I've caught them down to 3'-4' feet deep, that's about as deep as I can go in waders.

Well I guess I don't have enough coonass in me! Went to check traps only had 5! I had them in the flooded timber with current. I changed the depth and will check them again in a few hours.