Crawdad regulation

[Deer Slayer]

I use a cheap can of dog food for bait in my trap. I use a church key to punch the can full of holes. If I am going to eat them then I put them in non chlorinated water as Okie said and throw a handful of rock salt in with them. This causes them to purge their system in a couple of hours. Change the water after a couple of hours or so and you are god to go.

 

[Okie4570]

I use a cheap can of dog food for bait in my trap. I use a church key to punch the can full of holes. If I am going to eat them then I put them in non chlorinated water as Okie said and throw a handful of rock salt in with them. This causes them to purge their system in a couple of hours. Change the water after a couple of hours or so and you are god to go.

Didn't know that about the rock salt, wish I would have known that years ago Would have saved a lot of crawdad "babysitting".

 

[penismightier]

So, would it be best to try in a lake, or small pond? To get a decent sized meal for one person, you're going to need at least 3lbs.

 

[Deer Slayer]

I look for muddy ponds that are used to water cattle. In other words....too small to hold fish

 

[Jared]

you will need a fishing license

 

[dennishoddy]

you will need a fishing license

Thanks!

 

[Deer Slayer]

How is that fishing?????

 

[Bowhunter]

Me and my brother use to supply the local bait shops with crawdads and water dogs when we were teenagers. We would sein small cow ponds. This was 20 years ago and was much easier to get permission to do it. About 1 in 6 ponds would be a crawdad or waterdog hole. The trick is to find one that stays shallow and there are no fish in them. We would fill up up 50 gallon barrells with them and sell the crawdads for $5 a gallon and waterdogs for $0.09 each back then. Last year at Lake Fork, Texas they were selling water dogs for $3.00 each at the bait shops!

 

[Okie4570]

How is that fishing?????

I think it says "taking of any aquatic dwelling species", it's in the first couple of paragraphs of the fishing license regs.

 

[Jared]

I think it says "taking of any aquatic dwelling species", it's in the first couple of paragraphs of the fishing license regs.

you are correct.