crawdads

[flintboomer]

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.

[Blackfeet]

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

[Hammerhead]

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

[Blackfeet]

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[Hammerhead]

this topic just makes me hungrier how many could someone catch in a good day with a half a dozen traps do you think

[ErikPrice1@msn.com]

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.

[Bulldog lady]

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. 

[Blackfeet]

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[Watauga]

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? ;-)

[ErikPrice1@msn.com]

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

[Hammerhead]

got so hungry for them that i went in the garage and made a trap