Gavin Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 A standard wire minnow trap will work pretty well, but you might want to enlarge the opening a little bit. Cat food, dog food, canned tuna in oil, or fish heads & entrails from your previous days catch will attract them. Before you go to bed..Bait & weight down your trap and toss in some slack water near a rocky bottom shoal. Youll usually have a bunch of them in the AM..Boil em with some Zatarains liquid shrimp and crawfish boil and some Old Bay..serve with eggs and taters.. Cheers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terry Beeson Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Eggs?... hmmmmm.... How do you like those eggs, Gavin? Corn on the cob out of that shrimp/mudbug boil is really good too... OH... and be sure to sprinkle LOTS of cajun seasoning (good hot kind) over those bugs, spuds, and corn (and eggs?) when you pull 'em out of the boil... Add some ICE COLD beer (Corona is REALLY good with it... or Tequiza) and you have yourself a FINE culinary experience... TIGHT LINES, YA'LL  "There he stands, draped in more equipment than a telephone lineman, trying to outwit an organism with a brain no bigger than a breadcrumb, and getting licked in the process." - Paul O’Neil Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ozarkriverrat Posted June 5, 2007 Members Share Posted June 5, 2007 i used to go crawdadin' all the time in a small creek by my house and also bull creek. you can set up traps if you want. i would usually use bacon in mine and check it everyother day, but catching them is the best part. an easy way to go about it is to use a small trout net and you can scoop up a bunch at the same time... or you can do er the ol fashioned way by slowly lifting up the rocks and grabbing them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonefishin Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Eggs. Do you mean Crawdad eggs???? I would rather be fishin'. "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jcoberley Posted June 5, 2007 Author Share Posted June 5, 2007 So I guess by reading the posts that anywhere there is water therer should be crawdads? I kind of knew that but mostly what I have seen have been real small like the ones I would use for catfish and bass fishing. I was hoping to find some places that I could catch some big enough for eating. I will try TR thanks GF. I will have to find an out of the way place because I wouldnt want someone to take catch or my trap. Fish slow and easy! Borrowed this one from..........Well you know who! A proud memer of P.E.T.A (People Eating Tasty Animals) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wayne SW/MO Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 I couldn't resist looking up the name of the biggest Missouri Crawdad, its the Longpincer, and its native to the White, which I knew. I don't know how big they get, but I've seen them with bodies close to 5". If you're worried about losing your traps, drop them right off shore from a landmark in water that is 3' deep according to a pole. Put a large treble, with the points cut off for safety, on the end of the pole. If you put a length of small diameter rope about 5' long, with a weight on the end, and place the trap in an area that you can get in on tight, you can snag it or the rope with your depth pole. Funnel crawdad traps have a 1 1/2" opening. The ramp type works better though. Today's release is tomorrows gift to another fisherman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skeeter Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 TR and other lakes on the White River chain is the one place ( according to MO conservationist magazine )in the U. S. that you will find the "long-pincered" crayfish and yes, some of the really big ones look like little lobsters. Local bait shops and Wally World(sometimes)carry the vinyl-coated wire crawfish traps and they work pretty good. Try the bait shop just North of Kimberling City on Hwy. 13, which used to be and maybe still is called Tri-Lakes. We use cheap chicken parts, backs, necks etc. and like to get the traps that have a hanging "bait-cage" if you can find them. Remainders of cleaned fish like catfish, perch etc. work great too. The bait cage keeps freeloaders from reaching in without entering the trap and feeding on your bait without being caught. We like to drop the traps under the boat dock in about 15-25 feet of water on the bottom and the roof and shade from the dock helps a lot as most crawfish don't like to come out in the open in direct sun. Like others have posted, good Cajun spice, red potatoes and corn make a great "boil". Many folks like to leave the "dads" in a bucket of water for 24 hours before cooking as they "purge" themselves this way and you don't have the dark vein (alimentary canal) to deal with when shelling them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snagged in outlet 3 Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 I just had to chime in on this one. I grew up mudbuggin and the traps we used were a wire tripod about 5 feet tall with a net that was strung to each leg of the tripod. The tripod stands on the bottom and you tie a piece of bacon on the net and lower it into the water at whatever depth you wanted. The bugs would crawl up on the net to eat the bacon and you just lifted the tripod up and collected dinner. We always put in em in a tub of water overnight to purge em. Dixie Beer or Abita. SIO3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gonefishin Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 SI03: What you been up to? I haven't heard much out of you lately. What have you been doing to keep yourself busy? catchin any fish? I would rather be fishin'. "Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." Benjamin Franklin, 1759 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snagged in outlet 3 Posted June 5, 2007 Share Posted June 5, 2007 Haven't done much fishin. Family obligations and workin for the man. I know it's a long way out but it looks like October before I can get to Mountain Home to trout fish. Taney was too crowded for my taste the last couple trips down. It seems there isn't anytime it's not packed anymore. Been thinkin of smallie fishin sometime soon. Haven't done that in years but it's seems to be calling me back. How about you GF? Fishin? SIO# Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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