Crayfish (craw fish)

No doubt someone has shown you this!

 

Try a seafood gumbo
Shrimp,Crawfish,Crab meat,Oysters
You can Thank me later for hurting yourself!

 

yes they have and I don't eat it any other way now. Potato boiled egg little mayo some Frenchs mustard salt pepper put in the fridge to get cold serve hot gumbo I make mine with deer sausage shrimp crawfish chicken.

 

Ditto on that.
Another thing to do is to use the youngest, tenderest okra possible, and to avoid cutting it as much as possible.

 

string and bacon is how we do it. pull them in one at a time.

 

I did the string and bacon thing, when I was a kid. I use wire cage traps now. Catch them dozens at a time. Most I ever caught was 60 in one trap. Love to sit around the camp fire and eat craw dads. Personal sized lobsters. Boil a bunch up, dip them in melted butter and chase them with a cold swig of beer. It don't get any better.

 

They are tasty, but I can;t peel them fast enough not to starve. When I caught them, we used them for catfish bait. Lost easier to get full on. Haha.

 

yep... notice the yellow paint on the Mk 505 mod 2 fuse simulator... someone painted it....

 

I worked the landings at Big bear lake california and from time to time I did some diving after lost things and often found crawfish and even orange ones scooting at the bottom backwards, funny critters .
Some times they'd hold onto ropes tied to boats and inside the exhaust in stern drives and out boards.
Never thought much of eating them personally, though I knew others that did.
Seen them big as a foot long or more but , what part do you eat ?

 

How to Make a Crawfish Trap

Here's a link to a wikihow on easy to make crawfish traps with 2 liter bottles....

 

Generally the tail, but if they're a foot long or more, crack the claws and dig out the meat there as well...don't forget to suck the head after you pinch the tail. The fat is quite tasty!

 

@techsar
Someone has enjoyed eating mud bugs. No thumbs up in the icons; but you have earned mine.

 

These are all over the rice fields in southeast Texas, so they must work pretty well.

 

I can make that.

 

I'm thinking a 1 gallon jug with a Threaded piece of 2" PVC in the lid, baited and buried with a string and a float so you can find it should be about the same thing as that pic. just cut the hole slightly small and thread the pipe into the lid. You can get Mayo Jars from most fast food restaurants for free.

 

How to Catch Crawfish - theReviewGuys

 

a gallon jug with meat scraps will get them as well, but you do have to cut them out of the jug

 

The crawfish farms run those trap by just picking them up, invert and dump the catch, drop in more bait then back in the water; all while the boat is moving.

 

One can pull a 16 ft. trawl behind your boat and catch these, Its really important that you know the waters first!