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crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?)
#14440625 - 05/12/11 03:13 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Anyone? I love these guys, I've only recently decided to go out and get my own instead of buying them. I know thye are all over this region, the rusty crayfish, an invasive species to be exact, super aggressive, and delicious mind you, so I guess oh so good for me not so good for nature. but yeah anyone know much about trapping? I was going to use some old mino traps to setup in a creek near here.
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: snoot]
#14440690 - 05/12/11 03:35 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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fuck trapping bro.... just get a bucket, fill it half full of water, and go catch em by hand..... my girlfriend LOVES doing this..... just find somewhat still pools of water with lots of rocks, pick up the rocks slowly, grab them bastards when they run away... done
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: stranger_danger]
#14441128 - 05/12/11 05:21 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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stranger_danger said: fuck trapping bro.... just get a bucket, fill it half full of water, and go catch em by hand..... my girlfriend LOVES doing this..... just find somewhat still pools of water with lots of rocks, pick up the rocks slowly, grab them bastards when they run away... done
haha yeah I know some good spots to go look, some with real calm water some others in creek beds, but they are fast man, I figured trapping would b far more productive, I could set the traps before going out mushroom hunting and come back and collect my goodness.
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: snoot]
#14441425 - 05/12/11 06:28 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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ive seen my girl fill up a 5 gallon bucket in an afternoon... and we have fun doing it..... .... maybe its just cause its an excuse for me and my girl to blaze up and sit in the river all day, but w/e :_P
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: stranger_danger]
#14441595 - 05/12/11 06:56 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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stranger_danger said: ive seen my girl fill up a 5 gallon bucket in an afternoon... and we have fun doing it..... .... maybe its just cause its an excuse for me and my girl to blaze up and sit in the river all day, but w/e :_P
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: snoot]
#14441988 - 05/12/11 08:09 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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This does intrigue me, as we have really clean (I imagine they're clean) crawdads up in Tahoe, and in the truckee river, however this spring the water is swift and cold, swift enough in the river to be dangerous if you're not careful.
You could hike around tahoe, but again, you'll get cold eventually, and most are usually 5' or further under, so you're usually diving to catch them (hotdog on a poll works but you gotta be down there to snag 'em).
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: snoot]
#14442264 - 05/12/11 09:04 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I love them myself, but from what I've heard is if catching from lakes or streams it's best to rest them in fresh/clean water for at least 24 hours. Cleans the stank out or something.
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: Stein]
#14442379 - 05/12/11 09:25 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Stein said: I love them myself, but from what I've heard is if catching from lakes or streams it's best to rest them in fresh/clean water for at least 24 hours. Cleans the stank out or something.
depends on where your from/how clean the water is..... anything caught in murky/swampy/nasty water should be purged in this manner
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: stranger_danger]
#14442606 - 05/12/11 10:12 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Ones caught from tahoe don't need to be purged. They live in some of the cleanest waters.
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: Maverick]
#14443189 - 05/13/11 12:08 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Maverick said: Ones caught from tahoe don't need to be purged. They live in some of the cleanest waters.

look at that guy, he wants to be eaten!
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: snoot]
#14443465 - 05/13/11 01:49 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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LOL down in mississippi we would by them by the pounds. Tear the big brown paper bag and just dump them on the table.
God the cajun ones are orgasmic.
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: snoot]
#14444126 - 05/13/11 07:46 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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dont forget to suck them heads! 
Now I want some crawdads.
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: MadSeasonAbove]
#14444235 - 05/13/11 08:25 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Ray Mears did a nice item about trapping crayfish. Saw it a couple of years ago, and then so an item on invasive crayfish species in my area as well. Even though I've walked around with the intention to do something about this as well, I never really got round to it. Maybe I should. Here's the Ray Mears item, for shits & giggles:
Oh yeah, one of the Les Hiddins (Bush Tucker Man) videos also has a scene on crayfish in it, where he's using a makeshift trap fashioned out of a bundle of twigs and grass tied together with bait (meat or fish) inside it. The crayfish should crawl into the bundle, and be stuck in there when you lift the bundle out of the water.
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: koraks]
#14444959 - 05/13/11 11:14 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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koraks said: Ray Mears did a nice item about trapping crayfish. Saw it a couple of years ago, and then so an item on invasive crayfish species in my area as well. Even though I've walked around with the intention to do something about this as well, I never really got round to it. Maybe I should. Here's the Ray Mears item, for shits & giggles:
Oh yeah, one of the Les Hiddins (Bush Tucker Man) videos also has a scene on crayfish in it, where he's using a makeshift trap fashioned out of a bundle of twigs and grass tied together with bait (meat or fish) inside it. The crayfish should crawl into the bundle, and be stuck in there when you lift the bundle out of the water.
yeah the rusties here are invasive and highly aggressive, so there are an abundant of them, and you're actually doing nature a service by indulging. WINWIN!
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: snoot]
#14451222 - 05/14/11 12:58 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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snoot said: yeah the rusties here are invasive and highly aggressive, so there are an abundant of them, and you're actually doing nature a service by indulging. WINWIN!
Snakehead fish are supposedly delicious, too.
Someone needs to start an invasive-species restaurant. Zebra mussels, etc. Serve everything on a bed of kudzu.
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: snoot]
#14453580 - 05/14/11 09:18 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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haha yeah I know some good spots to go look, some with real calm water some others in creek beds, but they are fast man, I figured trapping would b far more productive, I could set the traps before going out mushroom hunting and come back and collect my goodness.
trapping is easier but you can stick a cup in behind them and spook them into the cup, my brother and I caught them all the time like that when we were kids, never had an issue
put a half gallon of milk to 5 gallons of water to purge them, milk acts like a laxative and it only takes a couple of hours, keep the water chilled and drop a bubble stone in it to keep them alive for more than a day
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: Prisoner#1]
#14453770 - 05/14/11 09:55 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Prisoner#1 said: trapping is easier but you can stick a cup in behind them and spook them into the cup, my brother and I caught them all the time like that when we were kids, never had an issue
that is brilliant
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: Prisoner#1]
#14454850 - 05/15/11 04:38 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Prisoner#1 said:put a half gallon of milk to 5 gallons of water to purge them, milk acts like a laxative and it only takes a couple of hours, keep the water chilled and drop a bubble stone in it to keep them alive for more than a day
I never heard of purging with milk. Hmmmmmmmmmm...
Might have to try that. The only thing is; I would avoid using chlorinated water.
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: MadSeasonAbove]
#14455692 - 05/15/11 11:10 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Prisoner#1 said:put a half gallon of milk to 5 gallons of water to purge them, milk acts like a laxative and it only takes a couple of hours, keep the water chilled and drop a bubble stone in it to keep them alive for more than a day
I never heard of purging with milk. Hmmmmmmmmmm...
Might have to try that. The only thing is; I would avoid using chlorinated water.
we have well water, its delicious. why no chlorine?
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: snoot]
#14455715 - 05/15/11 11:17 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I thought at first this was a food thread, then I read the first part of it, and thought, oh no. It's a pet thread. Then...bam.
I can't eat any sea life other than fish...and even then, just the typical "fish" types (no catfish for me).
As for catching them, yes they're easy to catch. I prefer to use a net behind the crayfish rather than a container because you can yank it out of the water faster and he won't have time to escape vs. a container. Just scare them into the net and you're golden 
Also, wouldn't trapping them basically force them into fighting inside the trap? Crayfish can't be housed with many others (or even any in some cases) inside salt/freshwater setups. Just a thought. I guess you would have to check it at least once a day.
I just looked and apparently you can just buy a trap but you have to see if you need a permit for it to actually use it
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: sandi]
#14455838 - 05/15/11 11:47 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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well, I should say don't use water with high/higher concentrations of Chlorine if you plan of keeping them alive.
http://www.h2ou.com/h2wtrqual.htm#Chlorine
Table 3. Effects of chlorine on fish and aquatic organisms
Total chlorine (in mg/L) Effect 0.006 Kills trout fry in two days. 0.01 Recommended maximum for all fish and aquatic life. 0.01 Kills Chinook Salmon and Coho Salmon. 0.01-0.05 Oysters have difficulty pumping water through their bodies. 0.02 Maximum Brook and Brown Trout can withstand. 0.05 Maximum amount that can be tolerated by young Pacific Salmon in the ocean. 0.1 Kills most marine plankton. 0.25 Only the hardiest fish can survive. 0.37 Maximum fish can tolerate. 1.0 Kills oysters.
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: MadSeasonAbove]
#14455852 - 05/15/11 11:49 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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MadSeasonAbove said: well, I should say don't use water with high/higher concentrations of Chlorine if you plan of keeping them alive.
http://www.h2ou.com/h2wtrqual.htm#Chlorine
Table 3. Effects of chlorine on fish and aquatic organisms
Total chlorine (in mg/L) Effect 0.006 Kills trout fry in two days. 0.01 Recommended maximum for all fish and aquatic life. 0.01 Kills Chinook Salmon and Coho Salmon. 0.01-0.05 Oysters have difficulty pumping water through their bodies. 0.02 Maximum Brook and Brown Trout can withstand. 0.05 Maximum amount that can be tolerated by young Pacific Salmon in the ocean. 0.1 Kills most marine plankton. 0.25 Only the hardiest fish can survive. 0.37 Maximum fish can tolerate. 1.0 Kills oysters.
oo right right, I don't plan to keep them alive very long.
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: snoot]
#14456824 - 05/15/11 03:12 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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MadSeasonAbove said: well, I should say don't use water with high/higher concentrations of Chlorine if you plan of keeping them alive.
http://www.h2ou.com/h2wtrqual.htm#Chlorine
Table 3. Effects of chlorine on fish and aquatic organisms
Total chlorine (in mg/L) Effect 0.006 Kills trout fry in two days. 0.01 Recommended maximum for all fish and aquatic life. 0.01 Kills Chinook Salmon and Coho Salmon. 0.01-0.05 Oysters have difficulty pumping water through their bodies. 0.02 Maximum Brook and Brown Trout can withstand. 0.05 Maximum amount that can be tolerated by young Pacific Salmon in the ocean. 0.1 Kills most marine plankton. 0.25 Only the hardiest fish can survive. 0.37 Maximum fish can tolerate. 1.0 Kills oysters.
oo right right, I don't plan to keep them alive very long. 
when is craydad time? I went out looking today, and didnt see a single one, in places I've always known them to be. too early I pressume?
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: MadSeasonAbove]
#14457089 - 05/15/11 03:54 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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MadSeasonAbove said: I would avoid using chlorinated water.
chlorine evaporates out of water in less than 24hrs
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: sandi]
#14457147 - 05/15/11 04:00 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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I just looked and apparently you can just buy a trap but you have to see if you need a permit for it to actually use it 
you can make them pretty easily too
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: Prisoner#1]
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I just looked and apparently you can just buy a trap but you have to see if you need a permit for it to actually use it 
you can make them pretty easily too

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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: Prisoner#1]
#14458741 - 05/15/11 08:13 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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chlorine evaporates out of water in less than 24hrs
Unless your city uses chloramine.
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: daussaulit]
#14459252 - 05/15/11 09:35 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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in which hypochlorous acid and sunlight can be used to strip it from the water
damn... this just got all kinds of complicated, I bet it would be easier to use bottled water at this point
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: Prisoner#1]
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ima boil some, say 2 sacks, fourth o july weekend. ok.
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: Prisoner#1]
#14460816 - 05/16/11 06:15 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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snoot said:when is craydad time? I went out looking today, and didnt see a single one, in places I've always known them to be. too early I pressume?
If anything it's late. But season came late this year.
http://www.nola.com/food/index.ssf/2011/03/crawfish_season_is_off_to_a_sl.html
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Complicated??
I understand chlorine evaporates. Just stating that if you were to use water with chlorine in your said purging process, you'll have a bunch of dead crawdads in that 24 hours.
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: MadSeasonAbove]
#14461663 - 05/16/11 11:48 AM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Catch crawdads by hand its the most fun. Dive down and just steal him up real quick. The fun part is trying to catch your meal. I spent about 3 hours searching by hand with a group of 5 people and we ended up with around 40 crawdads. I cant wait to go again this summer. The area I go has brownish tinted water but easy visibility with a very strong fast current and giant rocks where lots of crawdads hang around that are like gold mines.
Suck the heads, they are soooo tasty. Its like pure fat/seasoning flavor. Not much can beat lots of tasty free shellfish caught yourself.
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: todesengel]
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When I was a kid and we used to go out into the country we just stuck a stick in the water, they grabbed the stick with their pincers, and you could yank them out.
This was in the midwest though, so maybe they weren't crawdads, but some other kind of crustacean.
Not sure.
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: Madtowntripper]
#14462499 - 05/16/11 02:44 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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Madtowntripper said: When I was a kid and we used to go out into the country we just stuck a stick in the water, they grabbed the stick with their pincers, and you could yank them out.
This was in the midwest though, so maybe they weren't crawdads, but some other kind of crustacean.
Not sure.
defintely crawdads!, check out www.invasivore.com
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Re: crawdads, crayfish, craydads, crawfish(eh?) [Re: snoot]
#14463023 - 05/16/11 04:27 PM (12 years, 8 months ago) |
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i am the crawdaddy
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