I'm in Idaho. Here we call them crawdads - seems to be the common term, but I have heard crayfish used too. The river you were fishing looks just like our river here flowing through town, the water is high in the spring due to mountain snow run-off and evens out as summer drags on. I am going to try your traps here, it looks more productive than my method which is simply wading out into the river with a pair of salad tongs and a bucket and just snatching them up, which does work - but work is the key word - its a lot of it. But then, so is fixing up a batch too. The way I fix them is as follows. Boil your catch. Set them out to cool somewhat. Shell the tails - pull the vein and lay them out on a well buttered cookie sheet. Then brush the meat with garlic butter and lemon. (Lemon optional). Then light-to-moderately sprinkle them with powdered ranch dressing mix - just the powder - don't mix up a batch of dressing - just sprinkle the powder on them. You want enough butter on them so the powder gets wet with butter. Then you stick them in the oven and broil @ 350 until the tops turn just a little bit golden and pull them out. While they're hot sprinkle Parmesan cheese on them. Serve with a personal bowl of garlic butter & lemon. - Try it sometime. Its really good. Me, I am going to try your traps! Thanks for the great videos.
Craw fish are mainly nocturnal and if you get fortunate enough to catch them in the day, it is either overcast or you put your pot in a shaded area. This is why you didn't catch many when you came back 7 hours later to check your traps and it was done in the middle of the day. The times you caught the most is when you left the traps out overnight. Thanks for the video and info. God Bless
Looking good Joe. I really like your helpers too. You know me..never like to see an animal/fish parts wasted. Thanks for finding a use for those livers. Thanks for sharing with us my friend. Peace.
Thanks TJ. I purge them with salt and clean water, I have a video on how to purge and boil them, or I should say how I do it, I have had many comments on differerent methods and I appreciate them so thank you for telling me how you do it. They are very delicious once cooked up. Thanks again. Joe
I really like these "homespun adventure" type videos. That was fun to watch. If ya ever make it down here to the Gulf, visit the FloraBama lounge near Perdido. Best Crawfish within 150 miles.
So awesome that you live in a place where the rivers are unspoiled and have life in them. Here in MD we used to have crawfish/crayfish but due to poultry farm and regular farm run-offs our waterways are ruined. :( Awesome videos, keep up the good work!
Greetings from Latvia! I love crayfish fishing. Here in Latvia we usually are trapping them by night so I'm quite surprised seeing you catching them by day, Depending on the place 200 crayfish are like maximum quantity in one catching time. It would be like a miracle for me to catch two hundred crayfish just in about an hour! Sadly our crayfish has poor size, not like yours.
Wow, excellent 3 days, especially with the high water. I never even thought of using deer liver before. I usually give mine away as I don't care for the taste. I imagine it would make good catfish bait too. I can't wait to see the boil. Jeff
In the PNW I bait with canned salmon and check my traps every hour or so. Usually get a good 15 or so every pull but ours are quite a big bigger (especially the claws.) Good video!
I enjoy the mudbuggin vids. Good catch!! I do hope whoever messed with your traps were hungry and really needed them, but thrilled you ended up with so many in the end.
I always use dark chord and keep it hidden very well. You can still tag it but make sure everything is hidden from plain sight. Goodluck from Louisiana!!
I really enjoyed watching your adventures. We actually have these mud bugs in Albuquerque. AND, I have actually seen a couple young teenagers scooping these things out of a canal. They EASILY had half a bucket-full.
Joe I have to celebrate , It took me 3 yrs of asking but they ran it thru the head office , I asked Fish and game if it would be alright if we used jugs for fishing , And if we could trap Crays ,Nope Nope Nope -- This year they said Yes Jugs no more than 30 Meters away from the boat , And we can finally catch crays using a seign , fish trap , by hand , or on the hook . I love it now we get to taste what you guys get to enjoy , I just made my first trap I think I did pretty good too .
Oregon has 2 invasive and a daily limit of 100; 300 in possession. Say what? Too few of them with maybe 200 people going after them? Cannot put invasives back; too small and you want to bet they go back anyway?
hey Joe, I am very excited to see more Mudbuggin vids. I actually went crawfishin about a week ago again and didn't do to bad. But unfortunately, one time when I went to check them, one trap was already pulled onto the bank too. I was pretty mad but nextime I hid the rope a little better. so yeah, Great video.
Great video. Here in Australia we call them yabbies. Our freshwater Murray Crayfish are enormous. Now I know why people always comment asking what yabbies are on my videos. Hahaha
We just use feed pellets for chickens in a nylon stocking, tied to the centre of the net. Cast out and left for ten minutes and retrieved full of freshwater crayfish. Typical size is 1ft to 2ft. I did enjoy your adventure out to the river. Cooking here is boiling water with a tablespoon of 'brown sugar'
Got a quick question for you mate, if you have the time or still monitor these; about the shells after you've done your partial boil. Do you keep them for creating broths or soup bases, or just get rid of them?
Maternal Grandad dried shells and ground them and soaked violin wood and guitar wood in crab, crawfish boiled wter after grinding fine; made his woods sing better on instruments; he patterned that on Stradivarius violin making.
Just wondering in case a couple have gotten pulled, maybe it would be better to weave so twigs over the tops of the traps and use thick fishing line rather than the very obvious string? Just a thought.
You may be a yankee but brother - I like your style and tenaciousness. If there were more like you that made the laws I might move up north / east. (might) your still in the cool book bro!
We also have fresh water crayfish- we nearly got confused when we caught them in January but we caught 2 yabbies and the rest were crayfish. There's not much difference in flavour and the yabbie is smoother than the crays
Wow you really did good on your haul. I can smell the spiced boil now :)) I hope when you say "real boil" that means you'll be adding corn on the cob and potatoes. Makes me hunger just thinking about them. Thanks for sharing this one Joe!
Awesome. Wish I could have caught just 1 crayfish in the 2 trips I've gone out. But I think it's due to the opening size I'm restricted to have. Nicely done, and length of the MOVIE doesn't matter. lol. Keep it up and can't wait to see the boil.
Thank you for the great tips, we plan to catch a few this summer for fish bait. If we can do as well as you, we may have to do a crawdad boil. thanks again.
I use #12 trot line twine for my rope on my craw traps. It is very thin but strong, and it's a dark color. I tie it twards the bottom of the tree so no one can see it. Take that to consideration when I've never had a trap pulled, or stolen on the highly populated lake I'm on. :)
I do the same; just maybe add a bit of colored yard on a twig near it; 8-10 ft away; keep your tieoff near the ground out of ishgt as honor is all too minimal anymore.
Hey guys, question. I built these traps like your other video showed an this year will be my first time going for crayfish. I looked up all the laws so I'm good here in central/northern WI. But what do you think is good water temp for the crayfish to start? Had a mild winter here this year an a lot of the rivers an streams all still open by me. An already up in the 50's. Suggestions on time frame to start trying?
jr o depends on the season rules, check and see if any dates apply , if not. Go out and see if you can spot any moving or any signs of them. If you see any go ahead and throw in a trap , depending on your results you can decided to wait longer or keep trying. I would say the warmer it is the more movement you will see.
Ok, thanks for the advice. Wi runs an open season unless bordering rivers by MN so I'm good in my area. I'll have to check an see if I see movement.Thanks again
good effort.good income.good things to be serve on the table too.thanks for sharing.we enjoy watching very much since iam just like you over here in malaysia.
+JoeandZachSurvival Just a thought, I know this is old, but an idea I just had was: get some business cards made with the info for the tags, they are cheap, and will fit perfectly on the back of the duct tape.
do you think maybe night cat fishermen are snagging the wire trap. pulling it while they are fishing and throwing it back? you would assume that people just messing with it to mess with it would damage the trap too.
+CaedJenkins I will be posting the Mudbuggin 2016 season start within the next couple weeks. I am driving down to Louisiana right now and will arrive on Saturday. Stay tuned. Thank you. Joe
+JoeandZachSurvival It'll be nice to have u in our great state. I know last yr that ppl were catching crawfish n crabs around the Bonnet Carre Spillway but I'm not sure how things will be now since they opened the spillway in January n just closed it about a week ago due to all the rain causing it flood up north but to protect new orleans they opened it up which they said added a lot of freshwater to Lake Pontchartrain. I saw on the news that the day after they closed it a guy was trawling for shad for the crawfish n crab trap.
Nice video. Nice crayfish. And nice northern pike. That pike would've taste good if you could've kept it. I would love to try crayfish and i think i would love it because i like to eat crab
Nice videos. I live in Arkansas and love crawdad fishing and love to eat them more than catching them. We purge (soak in salt water) ours also but when we do we use an entire salt jug for 20-25 lbs. For those that want to know why we do this, it's to clean the insides out of the muddy taste and....well....poop from their tails. They ingest the salty water and it makes them sick and they are cleaned internally this way. I noticed that y'all didn't squeeze and suck the heads. That's where the boil water is and tastes so good. I can eat about 10 lbs by my self.
When I catch crawfish I like to store them in clean cool water to purge them. Do you purge them before you cook or just leave them in the cooler with ice?
GREAT video on catching these little critters. Have you ever thought about catching then for bait for fishing? Some of the smaller sized ones look excellent for that purpose. Enjoyed watching.
+Dino Harrison I am not sure but I think it is illegal to catch them here in Minnesota and then use them for bait since I am catching an evasive species. In my videos down in Louisiana catching them I believe it is legal to fish with them there. I should check that out for sure here in MN because they would be great bait. Thank you. Joe
Nice looking crayfish can't eat around spokane supposed to not eat due to chemicals in river over the years.I miss the great ones as a kid around Elko nevada.
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Almost 8 years since I’ve watched all your catching videos and I still go back and watch them because I’m jealous haha
I'm in Idaho. Here we call them crawdads - seems to be the common term, but I have heard crayfish used too. The river you were fishing looks just like our river here flowing through town, the water is high in the spring due to mountain snow run-off and evens out as summer drags on. I am going to try your traps here, it looks more productive than my method which is simply wading out into the river with a pair of salad tongs and a bucket and just snatching them up, which does work - but work is the key word - its a lot of it. But then, so is fixing up a batch too.
The way I fix them is as follows. Boil your catch. Set them out to cool somewhat. Shell the tails - pull the vein and lay them out on a well buttered cookie sheet. Then brush the meat with garlic butter and lemon. (Lemon optional). Then light-to-moderately sprinkle them with powdered ranch dressing mix - just the powder - don't mix up a batch of dressing - just sprinkle the powder on them. You want enough butter on them so the powder gets wet with butter. Then you stick them in the oven and broil @ 350 until the tops turn just a little bit golden and pull them out. While they're hot sprinkle Parmesan cheese on them. Serve with a personal bowl of garlic butter & lemon. - Try it sometime. Its really good. Me, I am going to try your traps! Thanks for the great videos.
+Subpilot57 I am going to have to try that, that sounds super delicious. Good luck trapping them, let me know how you do. Thank you. Joe
Craw fish are mainly nocturnal and if you get fortunate enough to catch them in the day, it is either overcast or you put your pot in a shaded area. This is why you didn't catch many when you came back 7 hours later to check your traps and it was done in the middle of the day. The times you caught the most is when you left the traps out overnight.
Thanks for the video and info.
God Bless
Looking good Joe. I really like your helpers too. You know me..never like to see an animal/fish parts wasted. Thanks for finding a use for those livers.
Thanks for sharing with us my friend. Peace.
I absolutely love all of your videos. Your very informative and multi talented.
Awesome catch Joe. Great to see the kids get involved too. Love all your vids. Can't wait to see the boil.
Look fun plus there so big 👏👏 i guess i need to come down there and trap some crayfish
Thanks TJ. I purge them with salt and clean water, I have a video on how to purge and boil them, or I should say how I do it, I have had many comments on differerent methods and I appreciate them so thank you for telling me how you do it. They are very delicious once cooked up. Thanks again. Joe
i seriously watched the whole thing. this was so entertaining! lol. i appreciate you filming this, especially on the day that you were alone.
Well, you did VERY good! Nice job!!! Can't wait to see the boil
I really like these "homespun adventure" type videos. That was fun to watch. If ya ever make it down here to the Gulf, visit the FloraBama lounge near Perdido. Best Crawfish within 150 miles.
So awesome that you live in a place where the rivers are unspoiled and have life in them. Here in MD we used to have crawfish/crayfish but due to poultry farm and regular farm run-offs our waterways are ruined. :(
Awesome videos, keep up the good work!
I enjoyed watching your videos thank you for sharing.
So much fun. I used to do this for hours when I was a kid at my dads camp in PA. I still do it ever spring during trout season. Love it.
Greetings from Latvia! I love crayfish fishing. Here in Latvia we usually are trapping them by night so I'm quite surprised seeing you catching them by day, Depending on the place 200 crayfish are like maximum quantity in one catching time. It would be like a miracle for me to catch two hundred crayfish just in about an hour! Sadly our crayfish has poor size, not like yours.
Hi from Southern Germany! Excellent video! I look forward to more.
Wow, excellent 3 days, especially with the high water. I never even thought of using deer liver before. I usually give mine away as I don't care for the taste. I imagine it would make good catfish bait too. I can't wait to see the boil.
Jeff
Love this video thanks for sharing
I had a great time watching this video thanks for keeping it clean.
Nice. I used to use a string when I was a kid. Loved it.
In the PNW I bait with canned salmon and check my traps every hour or so. Usually get a good 15 or so every pull but ours are quite a big bigger (especially the claws.) Good video!
I enjoy the mudbuggin vids. Good catch!! I do hope whoever messed with your traps were hungry and really needed them, but thrilled you ended up with so many in the end.
Wow I loved this
I always use dark chord and keep it hidden very well. You can still tag it but make sure everything is hidden from plain sight. Goodluck from Louisiana!!
Great 3 day catch looking forward to your first mudbug boil an feast of 2013 !!!
I really enjoyed watching your adventures. We actually have these mud bugs in Albuquerque. AND, I have actually seen a couple young teenagers scooping these things out of a canal. They EASILY had half a bucket-full.
Wow, awesome catch! Can't wait to see the boil! I had my first louisiana boil last weekend and it was DELICIOUS!
great video, thanks for sharing. had a great time watching
+Evan Lei Thank you for the nice comment. Joe
Joe I have to celebrate , It took me 3 yrs of asking but they ran it thru the head office , I asked Fish and game if it would be alright if we used jugs for fishing , And if we could trap Crays ,Nope Nope Nope -- This year they said Yes Jugs no more than 30 Meters away from the boat , And we can finally catch crays using a seign , fish trap , by hand , or on the hook . I love it now we get to taste what you guys get to enjoy , I just made my first trap I think I did pretty good too .
I'm really enjoying these videos. Hopefully I can gather the material and give this a shot. Thanks for posting!
Great video. Being a northerner from upstate New York I haven’t eaten crawfish but they looked good.
Great video, thanks!
I'm in Pa, and I'm going to start exploring some of our creeks for crawfish. I remember finding them all the time as a kid.
+Moz79 More than likely there are lots of them and not many people trapping them. You could have some good eating. Thank you. Joe
Oregon has 2 invasive and a daily limit of 100; 300 in possession. Say what? Too few of them with maybe 200 people going after them?
Cannot put invasives back; too small and you want to bet they go back anyway?
hey Joe, I am very excited to see more Mudbuggin vids. I actually went crawfishin about a week ago again and didn't do to bad. But unfortunately, one time when I went to check them, one trap was already pulled onto the bank too. I was pretty mad but nextime I hid the rope a little better. so yeah, Great video.
Anyone else think that pike had a belly full of crawdads?
+Herb Stimple I was thinking it probably did too!
Chuck Fletcher only reason i could imagine it would wriggle in there lol
Thank you for all the tips & tricks! Godspeed gentlemen.
i do not know why...but this is very satisfying...
Great video. Here in Australia we call them yabbies. Our freshwater Murray Crayfish are enormous. Now I know why people always comment asking what yabbies are on my videos. Hahaha
robbiefishing we call em craw daddies in Kentucky
How do you store them over the few days of trapping
We just use feed pellets for chickens in a nylon stocking, tied to the centre of the net.
Cast out and left for ten minutes and retrieved full of freshwater crayfish. Typical size is 1ft to 2ft.
I did enjoy your adventure out to the river.
Cooking here is boiling water with a tablespoon of 'brown sugar'
Got a quick question for you mate, if you have the time or still monitor these; about the shells after you've done your partial boil. Do you keep them for creating broths or soup bases, or just get rid of them?
Maternal Grandad dried shells and ground them and soaked violin wood and guitar wood in crab, crawfish boiled wter after grinding fine; made his woods sing better on instruments; he patterned that on Stradivarius violin making.
trapping crayfish is on my bucket list
607?? Sounds like a fish story... lol great haul... making me wish more that may 5th will hurry n get here so I can get mud buggin..
Thanks Joe and Zach
What kind of bait you Use for your traps
what great info from good hearted people !! happy new year !!
Great Video thanks
These guys who are stealing his crawfish are lucky that he is nice.
Thanks for this video. enjoyed it and I can go get some mudbugs now.
Enjoyed, thanks for sharing...
people really need to leave others stuff alone
Random Acts yep 👍
every prepper should make one of these traps....thank you for video!
You're the best youtuber ever.
Wow that's awesome!
Very nice and thanks for sharing!
awesome joe..you did better this year than last year..now I want eat some..
Just wondering in case a couple have gotten pulled, maybe it would be better to weave so twigs over the tops of the traps and use thick fishing line rather than the very obvious string? Just a thought.
Looking great Joe! The wheater is going nuts this year, also here in Europe. But is was okay for the crayfish;-)
You may be a yankee but brother - I like your style and tenaciousness. If there were more like you that made the laws I might move up north / east. (might) your still in the cool book bro!
You got the bug for mudbugs :) great videos, thank you!
We call these yabbies in australia and mainly find them in those numbers in Dams
Lol I was confused thinking there was crawfish here but they are yabbys thanks for confirming
We also have fresh water crayfish- we nearly got confused when we caught them in January but we caught 2 yabbies and the rest were crayfish. There's not much difference in flavour and the yabbie is smoother than the crays
I haven't watched a video of yours that I didn't like! Watching this put me in the spring/summer mood i am going to put some traps together soon.
Liver is great crayfish bait because it is full of blood and the blood diffuses through the water attracting the crayfish from all around.
I love the Crawfish Videos
Nice catch. That's some fine eating you got there Joe. Keep up the good work.
i hate people who pouch on others traps, ty for the video
Wow you really did good on your haul. I can smell the spiced boil now :)) I hope when you say "real boil" that means you'll be adding corn on the cob and potatoes. Makes me hunger just thinking about them. Thanks for sharing this one Joe!
Wow! I love your videos! So exciting!!!
What a good haul. Waiting for the boil video and wishing I could share.
Wow! Great job, keep it up!
Im definitely going to try some out in my rivers
Awesome. Wish I could have caught just 1 crayfish in the 2 trips I've gone out. But I think it's due to the opening size I'm restricted to have. Nicely done, and length of the MOVIE doesn't matter. lol. Keep it up and can't wait to see the boil.
This was so fun to watch :-) reminds me of catching Yabbies in Australia or fresh water crayfish!
Thank you for the great tips, we plan to catch a few this summer for fish bait. If we can do as well as you, we may have to do a crawdad boil. thanks again.
+andyattitude2000 Thank you for the nice comment. Let me know how you do. Joe
I use #12 trot line twine for my rope on my craw traps. It is very thin but strong, and it's a dark color. I tie it twards the bottom of the tree so no one can see it. Take that to consideration when I've never had a trap pulled, or stolen on the highly populated lake I'm on. :)
I do the same; just maybe add a bit of colored yard on a twig near it; 8-10 ft away; keep your tieoff near the ground out of ishgt as honor is all too minimal anymore.
You got some serious Hogging out to do , Lucky nice catch .
how many centimeters have the mouth that pequeña inside the funnel
Hey guys, question. I built these traps like your other video showed an this year will be my first time going for crayfish. I looked up all the laws so I'm good here in central/northern WI. But what do you think is good water temp for the crayfish to start? Had a mild winter here this year an a lot of the rivers an streams all still open by me. An already up in the 50's. Suggestions on time frame to start trying?
jr o depends on the season rules, check and see if any dates apply , if not. Go out and see if you can spot any moving or any signs of them. If you see any go ahead and throw in a trap , depending on your results you can decided to wait longer or keep trying. I would say the warmer it is the more movement you will see.
Ok, thanks for the advice. Wi runs an open season unless bordering rivers by MN so I'm good in my area. I'll have to check an see if I see movement.Thanks again
8:31 LOL @ that crawfish trying to grab on to the trap
Thanks a lot for uploading Joe!
whats the most amount of traps you can have there
You should put a ruck in there so it doesn't come to the shallow water. Great video.
It's interesting seeing different ways people catch Crayfish/Crawfish.
awesome video thanks for this
good effort.good income.good things to be serve on the table too.thanks for sharing.we enjoy watching very much since iam just like you over here in malaysia.
+masitah adenan Thank you for the nice comment. Joe
+JoeandZachSurvival Just a thought, I know this is old, but an idea I just had was: get some business cards made with the info for the tags, they are cheap, and will fit perfectly on the back of the duct tape.
do you think maybe night cat fishermen are snagging the wire trap. pulling it while they are fishing and throwing it back? you would assume that people just messing with it to mess with it would damage the trap too.
Great video =)
really love your video sir.. nice work
+CaedJenkins I will be posting the Mudbuggin 2016 season start within the next couple weeks. I am driving down to Louisiana right now and will arrive on Saturday. Stay tuned. Thank you. Joe
+JoeandZachSurvival It'll be nice to have u in our great state. I know last yr that ppl were catching crawfish n crabs around the Bonnet Carre Spillway but I'm not sure how things will be now since they opened the spillway in January n just closed it about a week ago due to all the rain causing it flood up north but to protect new orleans they opened it up which they said added a lot of freshwater to Lake Pontchartrain. I saw on the news that the day after they closed it a guy was trawling for shad for the crawfish n crab trap.
+JoeandZachSurvival. i used the fat from steaks and chicken it worked pretty good
Such a cool video, love trapping craws.
Dayumm I Love These Videos!! Keep Producing These Great Video Dawg!!!
***** Thank you, there are plenty to watch and more coming. Thank you again for the nice comment. Joe.
Nice video. Nice crayfish. And nice northern pike. That pike would've taste good if you could've kept it. I would love to try crayfish and i think i would love it because i like to eat crab
nice movie joe and zach ;)
Nice videos. I live in Arkansas and love crawdad fishing and love to eat them more than catching them. We purge (soak in salt water) ours also but when we do we use an entire salt jug for 20-25 lbs. For those that want to know why we do this, it's to clean the insides out of the muddy taste and....well....poop from their tails. They ingest the salty water and it makes them sick and they are cleaned internally this way. I noticed that y'all didn't squeeze and suck the heads. That's where the boil water is and tastes so good. I can eat about 10 lbs by my self.
Levi Pearson what part of Arkansas
When I catch crawfish I like to store them in clean cool water to purge them. Do you purge them before you cook or just leave them in the cooler with ice?
what river where you on? Reminds me of the Wisconsin River near Wisconsin Rapids
The Rum River just north of the twin cities here in Minnesota.
GREAT video on catching these little critters. Have you ever thought about catching then for bait for fishing? Some of the smaller sized ones look excellent for that purpose. Enjoyed watching.
+Dino Harrison I am not sure but I think it is illegal to catch them here in Minnesota and then use them for bait since I am catching an evasive species. In my videos down in Louisiana catching them I believe it is legal to fish with them there. I should check that out for sure here in MN because they would be great bait. Thank you. Joe
Those rabbit entrails would have been some nice bait as well.
I use black or green line or rope for my fish lines or traps. Keeps the 2 legged predators from seeing the line or rope too ears.
What do you do with them all
wow really wish I could fish for them in fl but dont think we have them round Tampa
There seems to be a common correlation between crayfishermen and half finished houses.
Nice looking crayfish can't eat around spokane supposed to not eat due to chemicals in river over the years.I miss the great ones as a kid around Elko nevada.