crawdads

[Hammerhead]

anyone got any good ideas for already cooked crawdads from krogers

[Blackfeet]

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. 

[Hammerhead]

i aint much for seafood salad but i do like the sound of those hushpuppies.

[flintboomer]

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. 

[Hammerhead]

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

[Blackfeet]

Once in a while we catch some big enough to eat a claw but mostly just tails.

[Hammerhead]

how do you go about catching them

[DEADDAWG]

http://www.terrybullard.com/

http://www.trapperarne.com/

[Blackfeet]

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.

[Blackfeet]

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

[Blackfeet]

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.

[Hammerhead]

looks like im gonna start crawfish huntin there is a little stream in one of the woods i hunt should they be there

[DEADDAWG]

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.

[Blackfeet]

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[Hammerhead]

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