Biggest Crayfish You've Ever Seen?

[cnr]

Now we know why smallmouth bass are declining on our rivers. MegaCraw is eating them :-)

[ozark trout fisher]

That's got to be the biggest I've seen.

That said, at Montauk in the "social hole" and surrounding water is full of very, very big crayfish similar to the one pictured above (if slightly smaller.)

One day, while I was teaching a relative of mine to trout fish there, a bunch of kids decided to wade into the river a ways upstream of us with a net and try to catch a few of these big crawfish for dinner. They were splashing around in the water doing this for the better part of an hour. It was a bit of a comical sight, naturally ending with a conservation agent gently asking them to trade in their nets for fishing poles.

[Mitch f]

Now we know why smallmouth bass are declining on our rivers. MegaCraw is eating them :-)