WildWildWest threw these out tonight. Sardine as bait both open can and some tossed in the other. I'll let you know what he finds tomorrow.
Making me hungry with this post. Lived in Florida for 10 years and had a buddy that made regular sales calls to Louisiana and he'd bring back bushels of them for next to nothing. He sold food packaging equipment to farmers and seafood companies. I'd butcher a wild hog and we'd boil up some crawdads, corn, and taters. A little gator tail on the grill and some cold beer and....... now that's a party. Hope you catch a bucket of them.
50 years ago I would catch them while my Dad was trapping minnos. Wouldn't take long to get a couple hundred with a net. Got paid 5 cents a piece for them! Good money for a kid back in those days. Almost as much as I make now. Gary
I'm curious to see how they do! When I was younger I tried several times to trap crawdads with those, but I never got more than a few. I do remember fishing a few years ago and coming across one of those traps that looked like it had been forgotten about. I pulled it up and found about 50 crawdads in there, but only half of them were alive. I released them all and tossed the trap back on the bank, who knows if someone ever came back to check on it.
It probably is a little late. I've heard in the winter they dig into the mud and hybernate. Even if it isn't full winter yet, they're cold blooded so they won't be nearly as active once the streams start getting cool.
I was amazed at how many crayfish were out at night when I was looking for eels in small creeks. They can be found real easily due to the fact that their eyes reflect the light. Catching them may be another thing entirely, though I caught a few for fun. One was at least 6 inches long! Two pics, one is the daddy in a 5 gallon bucket, the other is next to my 11 size boot.
Make sure to leave one end of the trap out of the water. Those stupid mud bugs will die if they can't come up. My buddy traps them for a living down in the swamps and his traps are 4' tall and one end he ties out of the water so they can go to the top and back down.
