06-23-2015, 10:20 PM
It is a bit worse than you think. Crawdads should be "purged" for a day or two before they are cooked, which means keeping them alive and unfed until they clear out their gut. So unless you are camping, there's no way to properly cook the little boogers and also obey the Utah laws.
Law or no law, I would carry them home, allow them to purge, and then cook them. The law's purpose is to prevent bucket biology, and if you eat them, you are certainly not planting them in another lake. Spirit versus letter of the law, if you will.
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Law or no law, I would carry them home, allow them to purge, and then cook them. The law's purpose is to prevent bucket biology, and if you eat them, you are certainly not planting them in another lake. Spirit versus letter of the law, if you will.
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