Well we went to strawberry and caught over 500 crawdads in two and a half hours from ten thirty pm to one am. We are at the cabin now and have them in salt water. We let a lot of them go but kept a couple hundred for a crawdad feast tomorrow. I will post photos tomorrow afternoon if I can get enough signal for Internet service…
Just for those that will give me hell for transporting them the cabin is as close as the camp grounds at strawberry.. I am pretty sure I am still legal??? I hope…LOL
From what I understand, if you killed them before taking them to the cabin, it doesn’t matter if you are taking them to Ohio, you are legal. You just cant move them while they are alive.
They are still alive just in salt water but like I said we can walk from the cabin to the lake in 500 yards…
Sounds fun and tasty!
Here are a few photos of when we got there
It only takes about 30 min in salt to make them clean out there insides but we waited 10 hours before we rinsed them with fresh water as it was late.. When you do this the crawfish look dead but after a few min in clean rinse water they come around…
Nice Haul!! My buddy told me about catching them at night I have never tried, usually use chicken and a string. Were you at Renegade?
Awesome. From what I understand you will want to throw the dead ones out. They should be alive before they go into the pot.
When you catch these there are about half that look really clean and another half look dark and dirty.. This is due to the fact that crawfish shed there skins like a snake and the cleaner looking ones are the ones that have done this, I have found that it do not affect the taste as long as you clean them in salt water and then rinse with clean water before cooking. they do boil up different the cleaner ones look more appealing…
The first time I went out I was at soldier creek and last night I was at strawberry marina I found bigger ones at soldier..
As for the dead ones yes you should probably throw them out but that is why I worn that a lot will look dead but will infact be alive do not just throw them away if they look dead make sure by poring water on them and seeing if they are moving. I was told that if you do infact cook a dead one and then eat it you will NOT get sick like most say they just do not taste as good and yes I have done this to make sure…
Wow!!! I just had a Carl’s Jr. $6 burger combo and you’re still making me hungry.
Good crap! I have never seen so many crawdads in one place before! They’re not even making it challenging for you, are they? Heck, the next step is getting them to crawl into a pot of seasoned water!
How’d they taste?
I talked a few into giving up but a few wanted to fight me so I had to put traps out for them otherwise I just used a net or hands to catch them… I have only ate a few as I am still working on getting them all cooked as we speak…
Very nice haul!
Now, not trying to be a jerk or anything, but I thought that it was illegal to transport live crayfish from the bosy of water they were caught at. I always thought you HAD to kill them before you took them. Can anyone confirm or deny that??? [angelic]
Yes they need to be dead. But if you read all my posts I did not kill them as the cabin was 500 yards from the lake…
You’re right… I did miss that part.. apologies. Like I said, wasn’t trying to be a jerk. Just gotta be careful because they could still say transporting them a quarter mile from the lake is still illegal.
Yes very true but I am sure that it would need to be within reasonable distance as most people can’t cook them when there still in the lake. LOL… I am sure there is a very good reason for the law but I can not think of a lake I have not found crawfish in…From lake power to the uinta mountains… Maybe some carry something others do not?
There may be places without them… not sure. Could also be a disease factor, muscles, etc etc etc.
The Uintas are too high to support a population of crayfish. I heard that there’s not enough oxygen in the water for them to survive.
Hmm. If it is anything like the transporting of live fish law… i have been told it is legal if you are staying at a campground to transport them and eat them while in the camp ground. Same for fish that have length limits. you can clean them and eat them while in the campground, but not transport a cleaned fish with length limits.
Example.. In Idaho, bass have to be over 12". it is illegal to fillet them and take them home, they must be whole to ensure they can be measure gutted is ok, as long as head and tail are in tact). But it is ok to fillet and eat them in the campground..
I would guess your cabin falls within that?..
not a crawdad guy, but that is awesome !!
