catman529
Well-Known Member
Got these in a creek sunday night in maury county. Hand caught everything - held a flashlight and bucket in one hand and caught them with the other. Total of 64 crawdads over about 2 hours of wading. I could not catch as many as I saw... too many to keep track of.
When I got home monday morning 36 of them had died but were still fresh. I put those in the freezer right away.
The survivors -
The DOA ones...
I put the surviving crawfish in a bucket of fresh tap water but half had died when I got home from work that night. So I just put all of them in a separate bag in the freezer. Talked to a coworker about them and he said to bring some in on thursday and we'll boil them later that evening (I work at a restaurant). Good thing because I wouldn't eat them all myself... I'll catch em all night long but need a couple of buddies to help me get the eating done.
The creek was loaded. Never seen so many crawfish in one little creek, and they were all out of hiding because it was late at night. Here's a pic I took of one spot that had a few -
There were some pretty cool fish in the creek too. Most were familiar to me but there was one type of minnow that was awesome looking but they moved around too much for me to hand-catch one. I did not have a dip net. Here are a few of the specimens I caught and released
Northern studfish
Banded Sculpin
I'm guessing this is a bullfrog but I heard a lot of green frogs and no bullfrogs that night. Future frog legs....
Breeding male central stoneroller
There were 2 species of crawfish I could tell apart... one green with black tipped claws that lives under rocks, and one mud-colored type that lives in mud burrows and builds mud "towers" outside of the creek bank in some places. I imagine they both taste good though. Just need some cajun seasoning to throw in the water.....
When I got home monday morning 36 of them had died but were still fresh. I put those in the freezer right away.
The survivors -
The DOA ones...
I put the surviving crawfish in a bucket of fresh tap water but half had died when I got home from work that night. So I just put all of them in a separate bag in the freezer. Talked to a coworker about them and he said to bring some in on thursday and we'll boil them later that evening (I work at a restaurant). Good thing because I wouldn't eat them all myself... I'll catch em all night long but need a couple of buddies to help me get the eating done.
The creek was loaded. Never seen so many crawfish in one little creek, and they were all out of hiding because it was late at night. Here's a pic I took of one spot that had a few -
There were some pretty cool fish in the creek too. Most were familiar to me but there was one type of minnow that was awesome looking but they moved around too much for me to hand-catch one. I did not have a dip net. Here are a few of the specimens I caught and released
Northern studfish
Banded Sculpin
I'm guessing this is a bullfrog but I heard a lot of green frogs and no bullfrogs that night. Future frog legs....
Breeding male central stoneroller
There were 2 species of crawfish I could tell apart... one green with black tipped claws that lives under rocks, and one mud-colored type that lives in mud burrows and builds mud "towers" outside of the creek bank in some places. I imagine they both taste good though. Just need some cajun seasoning to throw in the water.....
