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- Join us as we set our crayfish traps and take you underwater with us to snorkel and watch the progress of the traps over the course of nearly 24 hours. This video was made in the Fraser Valley region of British Columbia. The native crayfish species we are catching are called signal crayfish.
We did it again! Check out our new and improved 2018 sequel to this video. Better review/demo of the traps, better underwater footage and more crayfish! th-cam.com/video/2qpb-uH7zTk/w-d-xo.html
May I ask which lake is it? In bc ?
Take this advice as a hint if you are trying to trap in clear water. You can increase your catch of crayfish in clear water by actually muddying up the water in the general vicinity of the trap. These crustaceans need some kind of cover to protect them from being seen and eaten by predators. That's why they usually venture out to feed at night under the cover of darkness. I've caught a lot of crayfish in muddy or cloudy water during a bright sunny day than in clear water. I've tried this technique and caught from 10 - 15 crayfish in my homemade net trap every ten minutes. Good luck guys.
can anyone tell me where this is in the fraser valley . I would love to catch some myself
We have MASSIVE crawfish like those here in Oak Harbor, Washington. I was astonished the first time I saw how big they get here!
Those crayfish and that water are so vibrant and clean. Incredible! The ones that we catch 'round my way are dirtier than a petrol-station handjob.
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Hey buddy just a question if you don’t mind answering, is this in chilliwack or Agassiz region?
When you catch one catch it from behind there tail is how they escape and they'll swim backwards
Nothing beats the outdoors. Especially when you're fishing, hunting, or crawfishing. Love the video!
From louisiana here, during crawfish season, there is no limit per person. in a sitting you can easily eat 30+ pounds
x1pyroveride eat? You mean catch buddy
no i dont mean catch.
x1pyroveride no human can eat 30 pounds of food. Maybe bc THE actual amount of meat you eat is less.
you much of just figured this out? welcome to louisiana.
tom m, 30lbs of crawfish = about a pound and a half of edible tail meat
Excellent Well Done video!
I Love to explore the
"Hidden Wilderness of those, Rivers,Creeks,Estuaries,Streams etc.
The best part comes together the next day; Harvesting!
Those look like some fine girthy Signal Crayfish!
I suggest trying the Crayster Crayfish traps they are the best and most durrable designed crayfish traps.
Good luck be safe and keep on Catching those,Fresh Water Lobsters!
fresno Cali has a lot u can get muddy in dirty u catch red tail crawfish in sec give an hour youll have a lot
Nailed it on the bait, I commercially fish crawfish in the Columbia River and cheap hotdogs are the best! To get even better results, soak the weenies in a can of oil packed tuna!
Bacon on a string !!!They don't like to let go!!! Got 40 In two hours in Bowen Park!! The big oners that destroy salmon streams
Wow, the quality of your camera is very impressive.
Thanks Mina! We used a cheap (and not as good) digital camcorder (until we dropped it in the bucket of water with the crayfish) and a couple of SJ4000 cameras with waterproof cases. They are great little cameras and inexpensive too.
+Trenton Wong Any lake connected to the Fraser via creek or within a reasonably short distance as the crow flies should be a safe bet. Crayfishing starts getting pretty good around late July and peaks late September / early October. Good luck!!
+caddisguy Where did you purchase these traps? I would love to catch myself some signals lol Cool video btw..
+Jerum Distura Ordered them from ronniesunshines in the UK. They are cheap, so order a few to justify shipping! :)
caddisguy Hey thank you very much. :D Am gonna check it out. Does the name of the website ends with .com?
+Jerum Distura That's the one! Shop around too... might even be able to get them closer to home. I think I saw some on Amazon a while back.
wonder if there are any lakes in north west C that have any. I used to harvest loads in the lakes east of Winninpeg
I've found that crayfish actually take red licorice as bait. I found out when me and my friend were at the edge of a pond that we were going to camp by, and we were eating licorice. she got a bad piece and threw it into the pond. After about 20 seconds, two crayfish were fighting over it.
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Slim Jims also work magic, me and my friend use it all the timw
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Dont use slim jims, those are expensive. $2 for just one? Use vienna sausages. Just 50 cents
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You should try canned friscies cat food
We have some really clear rivers from springs in the mountains that run all the way down to the desert. My and a buddy pulled about 100 or so out of a 20 foot swimming hole in the river and cooked em up at camp that night. They were the sweetest I had ever had. I believe when the water is crystal clear like that, the meat is sweeter, just my experience. Those ones you caught, looked as if you could eat some of the claws because of how big they were. Cool video. Thanks
hey! i was wondering where in the lower mainland i can try catching crawfish? and when is the best time to catch them?
use Bacon or chicken liver u will catch a lot in so little time
Skin and gut the bowl heads fry them up Fiddler's Style rinse and wash the skin and deep fry it very crunchy treat with the bullheads they're like the chicken of catfish meat
i can tell you are very young with a good back...I would place the trap on a big rock so i dont have to bend over so much...also next time show a picture of the animal you call a bullhead...i thought you threw them back...all in all enjoyed ya video
Thanks! My back still works but my knees/feet give me trouble sometimes. Age always has a way of catching up! We made a new crayfishing video in August 2018 that you might enjoy. It also shows some close-ups of the fish we call "bullheads" (though I think the proper name for the species is "brown sculpin" if I have identified it correctly. The new video is: th-cam.com/video/2qpb-uH7zTk/w-d-xo.html
that lake looks so beautiful!!
wow! your place is heaven......
Nice seeing fellow B.C ppl crayfishing! I go to Jones lake and have great luck!! what's the name of this lake you guys are at?
victor valente , how do you think the road up will be this year?
Amazing bro, nice catch under water with great camera.
Regard from Indonesia.
Thank you from myself and my wife! ("team caddis") We made a Sequel you might enjoy! th-cam.com/video/2qpb-uH7zTk/w-d-xo.html
Hell yea! Awesome vid guys I'm gonna try this on Vancouver Island!
+Broxty Should be quite a few lakes with crayfish on Vancouver Island. Hoping to hear of your success!!
Cool, the water in my pond isn't that clear, harder to spot my crayfish :)
Definitely more difficult in murky water. Sometimes signal crayfish give themselves away because of the white spots between their pincers... other species are probably more difficult
We have the signal crayfish also but they are an invasive species here, my crayfish are our native noble crayfish (Astacus astacus) biggest difference are the red spots instead of white spots :)
decent video however i wouldnt sunscibe or recomment to other people you do not talk or explain anything!
Wow, nice catch.
How long are the largest crayfish total bodywise?
They look like the signal crayfish species,large?
Thanks! Yes you are right. They are signal crayfish. We usually end up with a few between 5.5-6.5 inch body size (the "monsters") but 4-5 inches is pretty common and makes up most of what we keep.
Those are some fat ol bugs
Wow they look so different from the ones we have here in Texas. Too bad TH-cam still havnt figured out how to allow posting picture in the comments.
I want a Crazy Fish breeders have come in sizes 16-20 CM for me, I really wanted.
Very cool guys, Mike from Crayster
+Crayster Thank you sir! Mighty fine crayfishing videos you have up on your channel too!! Check out Crayster's vids folks!!
I checked it out, very cool. Keep up the good work. Mike!
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Crayster wow! Fancy seeing you here!
Great to watch. Nice sized little fellas too. they taste good? I can get ones about a foot long here but are very bland. I like the smaller ones in the small creeks and dams they taste better and will live for days out of water. That looked far too cold for this black duck . Good outing.
Is. That your phone ha ha and craw dad's like the dark also they like caned cat food poke holes in can with screw. Driver and wire to trap it helps to leave the traps in until after dark and use a 5 gallon bucket you need to boil them alive
hot dogs and bacon always worked awesome.😉 We would sit on a large branch over a river and use the plastic berry crates with twist ties to hold in the bait and old fishing line to pull them up once the crayfish would crawl in we'd pull em up. It was catch and release at 5he time though. Park rules. But man r they tasty with garlic butter.
Wow , you got some nice big crayfish up there in B . C. . Nice video , but you left out the eating part .
hey where is this i’m looking for a spot on vancouver island to go and get them and what is the best bait you would say
Nice if you talked more first impression in the first 3 mins
Great video! I'm trying to order the same traps from RonnieSunshine as well. Do you remember how much they charged for shipping? The website won't give me shipping charges and I don't want to be hit with a massive charge when it is shipped. Thanks!
I know this lake well, fished for trout and these tasty bugger too. I won't give the name to because you didn't.
Good video.
that's a pretty cool video hopefully one day I'll do the same
Once again on the dark side of the web
Those bullheads need to be cleaned Fiddler Style and deep fried. It's the chicken of catfish👌
Just one little problem with that. Bullhead is a commonly used term for fresh water sculpins on the west coast. The "bullheads" he removed weren't catfish, they were sculpins. You'd need at least a 14 inch sculpin to get fillets- they rarely exceed 6 inches. Besides catching crayfish, I get sculpins, minnows, giant pacific salamanders and the occasional trout in my crawdad traps. It's par for the course in the Pacific Northwest.
Those traps need an otter excluder
Anyone know any places around Kamloops where you can catch them, or is it only the lower mainland? Shuswap?
Great catch, but you should check the sex and through the big females back to keep a sustainable population growing. If you notch her tail before releasing, the next guy to catch her should know she has been caught before and released and he should do the same. Enjoy your wild caught catch. They taste great. But practice good husbandry to keep them around so you can teach your grandkids how to do it as you enthrall them with stories of your youth around the campfire. You will be fondly remembered as a hero and an environmentalist.
Beautiful...I miss Canada.
😞😔😴😴😴😴🤫🤭🤗😎 How about doing audio in video’s, like talking?? Tell what’s going on. 😊
We have talking in more recent videos. This one was filmed with underwater cams and voice-over was an after-thought (we just used text overlay) Now we pack a camcorder and point-and-shoot for your listening pleasure as well :) We are working on another crayfish now that I think you will enjoy
caddisguy Ok, thanks much. Maybe a catch & cook on the beach also. Nice.
this is sweet me n my lil brothers catch these guys by hand ✋ pinch like crazy but it's fun can't wait till summer sweet video
At the start I still don't know if they were in the water 🤣🤣🤣🤣😂😂🤣😂😂😂😂🤣🤣😂🤣
are those traps legal ? in the uk the opening has to be to small to let otters etc enter them and die yours look big enuff for beaver to get in ?
I have the same sort of expanding traps obviously bought from the uk and the entrance is the size of a golf ball was just wondering was not being negative.
hey. im from bc in white rock and was wondering exacty where you can catch and eat them. thank you
Most lakes and drainages connected or close to the Fraser River hold crayfish. Putting a trap in is the best way to find out. Good luck!
wow, nice catch! all cray fish are prisoners!! the one at 9:30 looked really big!
where did you go crayfishing?
That's very goof trapping
how awesome !!! water is clear, ton of crayfish !!! dont give away this spot to anyone!!! =)
I'm pretty sure that is an Elk Antler right infront of your trap, is that there on purpose?
That would be pretty amazing, as we are avid hunters and are contently shed hunting... and if there is an Elk antler, we are still missing it! Can you tell us what minute/second marker it is at? Though not many Elk in the area, about 80-100kms east, Elk territory begins. It is certainly possible.
My Fault! I had too much wine and mistook a branch for a shed! Sorry to get your hopes up! great video, it looks like so much fun out there!
Used to catch Crayfish in Connecticut by looking under rocks and being very quick, your method(s) look a bit more adventurous. But one quick quick question if I may, Where exactly was this filmed?
this was filmed around 1.5 hours East of Vancouver Canada it known as the Fraser Valley
+caddisguy what do you use for the bait, is it sausage??
lol you can always tell when someone isn't from the south by the way they cook there mud bugs
Were Bullheads the big males?
Where in the Fraser valley was this?
Damn, the water is clear as day.
I went swimming in the Washougal river in South West Washington, they had a set of fish ladders that were covered with steel grates and you could only access from the lowest ladder. You had to take a deep breath, swim up through a few ladders and then you got to the ladder where the walls were crawling with big crawdads. You grabbed as many as you could while holding your breath. These were 7 or 8 inches long. Tough work but good eating.
that is a pretty sweet trap, what brand is that and where did you get them?
I would be wearing fins. Makes traveling much easier.
that water looks sooooo swimmable
It is incredible for swimming and snorkelling. The crayfish are a bonus!! :)
There is this thing where sewage water goes and there is cray fish for some reason
Any organism harvest from a sewer will be contaminated with said sewage. Solution: don't fish in sewers :)
I saw another post that said there was a 25 count limit on them. Is that per person, per day/week/year? Just curious about the regulations.
In this region the daily quota per person is 25. The possession quota is 2x the daily quota which allows for the possession of 50 per person. There are no weekly or annual limits. Here is a link to the regulations:
www.env.gov.bc.ca/fw/fish/regulations/docs/1719/fishing_synopsis_2017-19_region2.pdf
Some additional fun facts which are not in the regulations... for example, I have a letter from the ministry clarifying that bait bans do not apply to crayfish, so you can even use bait for crayfish in bodies of water where bait is not otherwise allowed for fishing.
Wow congrates on getting one million views on this vid maybe make a part 2
Cool! In sweden we laid 45 traps and got 300 crayfishes!
Those are the largest crawfish I have ever seen! Looks like a lot of fun.
I like crayfish throw and they look like cards
Nice and for the bullheads they make great fishing bait
usually putting the breeders back makes sense?.. or is that just a brown thing XD..
We release any with eggs or young which happens late spring or early summer. If by breeders you mean "big ones" they pretty much breed at any size and they all get pretty big.
Awesome! Could you pls share the location?
What kind of Kayak is that?
Maxwell bullhead are a species of catfish.
what is the name of those traps? I would like to pick up a few. thanks!
Great video. Nice looking crayfish. The further north and the colder the water the better the eating quality. I won't even touch these "mud bugs" they eat down here from Louisiana or Florida. Cold water lakes and streams are the best.
K. Backus you have it backwards there. southern water looks dirty, but it is clean otherwise. up north, the waters may be clear, but highly contaminated from factories dumping. I'll take dirty water catches over clean and full of chemicals.
+Lou Davis How about ice cold and crystal clear like the north fork of the ahtanum that flows right through my property here in Yakima wa?
Lou Davis, I have had both. That lake he was on was mountain stream fed. I have eaten fish from all over the country. Stuff that swims in dirty muddy water tastes like it. If you're pallet cannot pick it up then your lucky. Keep eating what makes you happy you will probably never know any better. Its kinda like eating Hershey Chocolate. A lot of american's love it, and why not its what they grew up on. I never liked it. And I grew up with that being the only choice. Would it shock you to know that Mr. Hershey curdled his milk to make milk chocolate because the master chocolate makers in Europe wouldn't share their recipe on how to make milk chocolate. That's why his chocolate has a rancid flavor to it that American kids adore. Enjoy you're mud bugs.
4:23 very clean
do you need a licence in bc for crayfish? (I'm under 16)
y
under 16 no, 25 a day limit i beleive.
Darn I wish i could catch one as a pet
Eventually you will end up eating your crawdaddy pet, just like Homer Simpson did with his pet lobster named ''Pinchy''.
Holy shit that one is gigantic!!
Use cheap dry dog food it works way better
We have used various cat and dog food, liver, etc but have found that in our areas, nothing works better than hotdog wieners.
Canada water is so clean...clean water clean fish...
Hi dude were is the lake u catch the cary fish??
You actually eat them? Wow. What are bullheads?
A species of catfish
+surgeyX We eat the crayfish, not the other fish (which someone pointed out are actually sculpins) Crayfish taste great... somewhere between lobster and prawn.
what type of trap is that and where can I by it?
Sure look good
where is it?so nice and clean
how did you make those traps??
Either they can"t speak or one of those silent film before they have sound.
+Nak Lee cams are in waterproof cases that don't let much sound through
The water is clearer than my life rigth now
Upload video on how to make this traps.
Nice crayfish. Where can I get traps similar to those you used in the video?
Thanks! Sorry for the late reply. The traps we used were ordered from www.ronniesunshines.com/crayfish-trap-crab-or-fish-pot many years ago, but you can purchase similar traps on Amazon now
Cut up bullheads make great bait... Looks like a good dinner!
I wish we could. The thought has crossed my mind before!! However, by law in BC, all fin-fish caught in crayfish traps must be released.
where did you get the traps who makes them
Those are pretty big! Wow!!!