Giant Table Rock Crawdad

[Alex Heitman]

This crawdad tried to eat my jig this weekeend. It's the biggest I've ever seen. It was over 9 inches stretched out. The pinchers on that thing were unreal. 

[snagged in outlet 3]

Lunch!!

[JestersHK]

Hmm,  a little butter and a nice filet to go along with it LOL.  Thats a bigun for sure.

[abkeenan]

That's an eater. You'd be surprised on how many of those there are in the lake. Every now and then in the summer we will set out traps for them and get always get a few that size every night. We usually set our trap in about 15 feet of water in the dock slip to get'em.

[magicwormman]

Poor mans lobster!

 

[BassBlind]

Are they decent eating?? We ate a few of them years ago and were a bit underwhelmed... 

[abkeenan]

7 minutes ago, BassBlind said:

Are they decent eating?? We ate a few of them years ago and were a bit underwhelmed... 

Oh yeah. Real good. Boil'em just like the cajun's do and they are great. Lil' garlic butter....mmmmmmm.

[oodlesiggy]

Rusty Crayfish. The reason you cannot buy or use live crawdads anymore.... 

[Mitch f]

11 minutes ago, oodlesiggy said:

Rusty Crayfish. The reason you cannot buy or use live crawdads anymore.... 

 It's actually the table rock long pincered craw

 

https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/longpincered-crayfish-long-pincered-crayfish

 

[oodlesiggy]

49 minutes ago, Mitch f said:

 It's actually the table rock long pincered craw

 

https://nature.mdc.mo.gov/discover-nature/field-guide/longpincered-crayfish-long-pincered-crayfish

 

I stand corrected!