07-18-2008, 09:13 PM
1st, get yourself a net, a small mesh net that the buggers cannot crawl through. If you want to stay on the cheap, put a piece of nylon screen inside an existing net.
2nd, get a few pieces of string about 15' long, light string will work, even fishing line.
3rd, Go to the grocery store and ask the butcher if he has a package of chicken "Backs", if not, but the cheapest thing he has, if he has breast bones from making boneles breasts, they wil work good too.
4th, go to an area that is suspected of having a good population of dads. Tie the chicken parts to the string and throw them out. Hold on to the end. Stake it out so it can't be draggged into the water. When you have thrown all your lines out, about 15' apart on the bank...
Slowly lift the string, gently pulling it to you, as it nears shore, keep it of the bottom and scoop it up along with any clinging dads.
Throw them into a bucket and toss the string out again. Repeat with each string till you have enough.
I like to clean them out with a salt bath while still alive. I dip a bucket in the lake, about 6" of water. I add 1 cup of salt and fill with dads till they are just covered. In a minute or two they will start to puke up all the black stuff in their stomach. After about 5 minutes, take them out and rinse briefly with cold water and return to a clean bucket. repeat with all crawdads.
To cook, boil enough water to cover the dads. Add, 2 halved and squeezed lemons, 1/2 package of Zatarians crab boil, and the crawdads. Slow boil for 15 minutes and drain.
Eat them up.
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2nd, get a few pieces of string about 15' long, light string will work, even fishing line.
3rd, Go to the grocery store and ask the butcher if he has a package of chicken "Backs", if not, but the cheapest thing he has, if he has breast bones from making boneles breasts, they wil work good too.
4th, go to an area that is suspected of having a good population of dads. Tie the chicken parts to the string and throw them out. Hold on to the end. Stake it out so it can't be draggged into the water. When you have thrown all your lines out, about 15' apart on the bank...
Slowly lift the string, gently pulling it to you, as it nears shore, keep it of the bottom and scoop it up along with any clinging dads.
Throw them into a bucket and toss the string out again. Repeat with each string till you have enough.
I like to clean them out with a salt bath while still alive. I dip a bucket in the lake, about 6" of water. I add 1 cup of salt and fill with dads till they are just covered. In a minute or two they will start to puke up all the black stuff in their stomach. After about 5 minutes, take them out and rinse briefly with cold water and return to a clean bucket. repeat with all crawdads.
To cook, boil enough water to cover the dads. Add, 2 halved and squeezed lemons, 1/2 package of Zatarians crab boil, and the crawdads. Slow boil for 15 minutes and drain.
Eat them up.
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