anyone got any good ideas for already cooked crawdads from krogers
Never had any precooked but we make a pretty good cracker dip or seafood salad with the local variety. Another tasty use for them is to chop them up and put them and a can of crab meat in a hushpuppy mix.
i aint much for seafood salad but i do like the sound of those hushpuppies.
We just cooked the crawdads we caught and either ate them as is or with a little butter. It was a lot of work to get that tasty little bit of tail meat until we learned to just twist off the tail, twist off the tail fins, and push out the meat.
I haven't had any for a long time now.
is the tail meat the only part you can eat it was the only part i was brace enough to eat. tried the lobster to but it wasnt to appealing when i pulled the tail out
Once in a while we catch some big enough to eat a claw but mostly just tails.
how do you go about catching them
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Minnow trap with a can of cat food in it with holes punched through the can. Course fish guts and squirrel remains, chicken livers and other meat will work good too, sometimes better. The smellier the better it seems. I have watched them come out from under rocks upstream when the right bait goes in the water. Quite a critter to watch.
Yes sir, modified and specialized minnow traps at those sites. We made a couple of rectangular ones for ponds that worked very well. Based them on the newer type lobster traps
Thanks DEADDAWG there is a lot of info there, I will learn a lot. One advantage that we have here is that everyone thinks that these are a southern thing cause they only see the little ones around shore.
looks like im gonna start crawfish huntin there is a little stream in one of the woods i hunt should they be there
Depending on your water quality and flow will determine how many crawdads you will catch. I love a nice mess of crawdad tails. Boiled up in salted water with some crushed jalapenos and garlic.
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my 18th birthday is in 7 days i just asked my grandma for half dozen minnow cage traps to use for crawdads lotsa streams round here. me and my buddy matt are gonna have us a cajun cookout as soon as we get some crawdads and catfish and some froglegs
If the stream is clear you can go in with a net and scoop them up. That is what we did in Oregon when I was there.
Minnow traps work good too but make sure the hole is big enough for the crawdads if you use that kind of trap. Fish heads worked the best for us for bait.
One way to do it if the streams are clear enough is to put out baited traps and when you are ready to pull them out take a net along to scoop up any other crawdads you see and add them to the water bucket you dump the ones from the traps into. The holes in a lot of fish nets are too big and the crawdads can get through them, so not every net will work.
You may also want to check the local laws as far as opening size in minnow traps. NH has restrictions so that trout can't get in, or can get in and out, don't remember
i dont know if the trout is a worry round here cause iv never even seen a trout here and the streams im gonna be useing are way to small for trout
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this topic just makes me hungrier how many could someone catch in a good day with a half a dozen traps do you think
Alot, depending on the area, I catch'em here in oregon, haven't done it in awhile. Some of the irrigation canals in cali would have water in them during the day but at night would drain. The crawdads would come outta there holes and crawl around the mud, we'd catch'em with a net.
Crawdads make good fish bait! Shrimp are for eatin. if remember right back in Ks you could catch them in the bar ditches as well as the creeks. We never thought o eating them. Have tried them and not worth the effort and taste is different, and just no comparison to good shrimp. Yah Yah got champaign appetite on beer income.
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I talked to a couple of buddy's from Louisiana and after they catch them they put them in a real salty brine.
They said that this caused them to throw up and clean themselves out.
then you take the Crawdads rinse them off and boil them with corn ears, taters, Onions and cayenne pepper's
he had some more ingredients but I have forgotten what they were.(I think Beer? ;-)
Quote from: Watauga on April 18, 2011
I talked to a couple of buddy's from Louisiana and after they catch them they put them in a real salty brine.
They said that this caused them to throw up and clean themselves out.
then you take the Crawdads rinse them off and boil them with corn ears, taters, Onions and cayenne pepper's
he had some more ingredients but I have forgotten what they were.(I think Beer? ;-)
Man now I'm hungry for mudbugs and beer chrrs
got so hungry for them that i went in the garage and made a trap