Catching Crawfish

[rifuggio]

Nice video, take a look at my video were I cook them, and of course, take a look at the fishing site, way different here, but always delicious!

[AaronBlackburn95]

Aren't you worried about gators in the reeds?

[StoneZack17]

now thats a feast!

[nutcrackereth]

Cool

[Twostones00]

Nice craw fish good size.

[NguyenEmpir3]

where can i find crawfishes, thanks.

[taucoin125]

Thats too funny, Thats my dad driving the boat. I told him about this video about a year ago and he had no idea it was on youtube, hell he didnt even know what youtube was.

[32323kb]

stop throughing the old bait back in the water

[longjohnw86]

red neck lobster!

[fishingnfun]

what do u use for bait?

[toadmode69]

Haha this is like swamp people except they look for crawfish

[flanksteak2]

Those crawfish are better quality than what you get out of the "clean mountain" rivers here in the Northwest.

Ours often have parasites on them, little worms that burrow in the belly and claws.

[MarshallOutdoors]

what kind of traps are those

[amazingdany]

How come there are so many crawfish rivers in Southern US?

[ilovepuppies312]

that would hurt to be thrown in that box thingy like that haha i keep some as pets to

[thePapermaster1234]

i keep em as pets ;)

[krule48]

Best way to catch crawdads are with liver.

[gentleman698]

how do you make the crawfish trap.pls thanks

[Lacombe57]

Now I'm hungry.

[polsdofer]

what did you use for bait?

[LegacyQuality]

Ever encountered a gator while checking your traps?

[powerlifting1by1]

lets go fishing

[irishbreakfast]

i personally think cooked seasoned chicken works best here on long island where i catch crawdads,theres only one place for them here,and few know of it.i get 9in.monsters cause its not a realized rescource here.noone even thinks there here.putting them in with wet water plants if kept room temp or cooler,theyll be fine up to 3-4days.dont go below 38degrees F.leave your traps overnight.dont use flimsy traps in areas with snapping turtles!!GEE MINNOW TRAPSw/2in.holes are great! DONT TAKE BERRIED!!

[simpleearthling]

whats the best bait

[superspy35]

do you need a permit or can you do it freely

[treldib2]

how long do you leave the trap?

[BigDOutdoors]

@treldib2 The traps are checked almost daily.

[HotHeadCJ]

@BigDOutdoors lol everytime I check its almost full, there are so many

[suicide5389]

how do u make those kinds of traps?

[Starrjen]

how long do u keep the cages out?

[crashdemann]

in aus we call them yabbies. same thing different name

[metalmonkey666]

@Bbfishman

Well im from Texas! Dallas tx...you know its pretty south. Lol. Na man its great down here tons of stuff to do at night in the cities and close enough to nature to hunt fish etc.

[BigDOutdoors]

@metalmonkey666

I am from Fort Worth area originally. Now I live in Louisiana. DFW is a great place to live!

[trunghq]

In Vietnam, we do the same things like what you did in this video. But, nowadays, the sources and rivers are getting polluted. Your video makes me think about the old good memories.

[kcbw22]

oh yeah bebe! yum!

[ethantup456]

how do you make these traps?

[jmg1957]

yummy lets eat !!

[CorbinDCreptiles]

how long do you keep your traps out ?

[XBASSFISHINGALLDAYX]

do you ever use them for bait?

[nimi118]

*cray fish hitting steel* OUCH! and are these native or the pilgrim crawfish?

[nimi118]

*cray fish hitting steel* OUCH!

[LippinSmallmouth]

what bait?

[tng150]

do they taste like lobsters????? im from new england so i only use these as bait

[BigDOutdoors]

@tng150 Kind of, but lobster is definately better. Boiling crawfish is fun and a cajun tradition though.

[Insane82chevy]

@BigDOutdoors ever catch any gators?

[fishermannoah]

@BigDOutdoors there deloiuse like that

[carnypimp]

@BigDOutdoors I live in Indiana just wondering what is a good bait to put in my trap. My pond has to many crayfish.

[gentleman698]

@tng150 hello you use these for bait for what?

[Conorlovesfootball]

how did you make that

[Torcika]

after you catch them,how do you keep them until you cook them?do you put them in a water tank or do you just keep them in a net?i'm curious because I want to start fishing crayfish and I'm worried they'll die before I have the chance to cook them

Thankx

[BigDOutdoors]

@Torcika

They are put in sacks of about 30 pounds each. As long as your keep them very cool, not freezing and dry they can last for up to a week until you boil them.

[Legendace2]

@BigDOutdoors When I was a Boy Scout, I would pop them in a cup full of the remnants of Hot Chocolate, pop some potatoes in there, Fruit Loop crumbs, and I cooked those suckers! They didnt taste too good though...

[fusionstar916]

@Torcika just dont keep them in water, or else they will drown. Keep them wet and they will last a week.

[djm50able]

what kinda of motor is on your boat?

[27simber]

very small

[TheMrHarryShow]

what bait do u use

[BigDOutdoors]

@TheMrHarryShow

Pieces of mullet or some other fish and a commercial crawfish bait.

[castlewar12]

dont think thats a very good idea driving a boat strait into a think of moss and lillypads???

[ZOMBIEHUNTER745]

I'd eat some and keep some

[357magnum98]

what did u do with them eat em? or use em as bait

[BigDOutdoors]

@357magnum98

We eat em, sha!

[7KAYJAY7]

@BigDOutdoors how do you cook em i catch em by hand but i let em go but i want to try it

[Wazuprandom]

Nice man, i look up to you guys lol

[bcdrsmash]

Well damn, yall sure do take this seriously

[ethantup456]

is there a difference between Crawfish crayfish and crawdads becaus everydifferent vid the call them different things

[BigDOutdoors]

@ethantup456 No difference.

[CosmicGrooves]

@ethantup456 The only difference is if they call them anything other than Crawdads, they're wrong. Seriously... does that look like a fish? Do they call them Lobsterfish? No I didn't think so.

[CosmicGrooves]

@ethantup456 The only difference is, if you say anything other than Crawdad, you're wrong.

[romromtosco]

do you guys sell them and if how much would all those cost?

[sicpric]

This video makes me miss Louisiana so much! Love the Cajun accent btw!

[Latashatx1]

Pretty cool video. Of course we eat them never knew how they were caught.

Thanks

LA

[burgerkingruler]

holy snot thats alot of crawfish

[Powerules]

What impact will the oil spill have on the crawfish in your area?

[bundy70380]

yal need to watch what yal say i kno this man personally i fish crawfish theres a big diff in pond crawfish and basin crawfish....

[BigDOutdoors]

@ReticentRM Watch your language on my page please! All vulgur comments will be deleted...

[lfrem1]

OK thats not how lousiana people catch crawfish this is obviously some kinda joke.

I would have caught 30 lbs by the end of this video. You fish in a pond with a set depth and levees with hundreds of traps. This is not how its done im gonna try to find a video on how its really done and post it here.

[BigDOutdoors]

I know what you are refering to, pond crawfish. But these are freshwater basin crawfish and this is how they catch them. I have found that they are much cleaner and taste better. A little more work involved, but definately worth it. Give them a try sometime and let me know what you think.

[openarms332]

where do i find them at?

[KoopaKonartist]

My dad made traps like that, but it was intended for bream. We use them for bait.

[mathyu0179]

:drool: now i have to go buy some crawfish somewhere

[christorres321]

What did you use for bait?

[BigDOutdoors]

Pieces of mullet or some other fish and a commercial crawfish bait.

[cornpotatoman]

did u eat the crayfish? =0

[BigDOutdoors]

Heck yeah! They were good too!

[cyborganizer07]

Haha.. "ya'll know where to go"

[redmond424]

Looks like good way to catch crawfish! If you want to see great way to catch bait fish, check out the Collapse-A-Trap video on You Tube.

[ursogayidie]

What did you use for bait?

[Imopftw]

How are the traps made ?

[BigDOutdoors]

They are made with chicken wire and a hole that gets smaller as they go in. Once they are in they can't figure out how to get out.

[BigDOutdoors]

Chicken wire

[julie1300]

I never would have seen this in my life had it not been posted on yutube ! COOL thanks :)

[BigDOutdoors]

Your welcome. I just moved to Louisiana, so I will be posting more content like this hopefully soon!

[bredog1]

what kind of traps are those mine dont work there the funnul ones

[fisherdude9456]

Lol i know, they work 5 times then the fish start to catch on

[Section014]

I love boats, I would go to lake gaston every year with my little brother and put traps and bueys around (only 2 Allowed per boat) and it's a fishing boat, but on the side of it, I have a chamber, Just like you guys! It makes me feel like im actually doing something, We throw away the big fish and keep the smaller ones, Like crappies and catfish to eat. And we keep the crayfish.

[jazzy0697]

hmm idk if this is true or not but my mom said tht she saw a crawfish come from under our house after it was raining. because we hav water under our house sometimes but not when it doesnt rain

[BigDOutdoors]

Very possible. I saw one downtown next to a curb on the road that was walking around after a big rain.

[SonikBlu23]

if they break their main snapping arms,

do they grow back?

[hoghunter243]

yes

[SonikBlu23]

nice.

[XxJM14xX]

yes they grow back completely

[SonikBlu23]

nice,

yeah mine lost them after a

brawl with my two Oscars.

[tbenefi33]

That's Dinner.

[gaarahellya123]

were u in a swamp???

[storm80error]

is it crawfish or crayfish lol, but in australia we call crayfish yabbies

[jakechan99]

lol,those r small

[recon345]

i breed them lol in hawaii i can catch but idk were lol

[hmmlimmethink]

when i was younger, me and my dad used to catch crayfish to fish with at my dads friends house

[ShotCold900]

lol i rember when i went to camp i found a baby 1 and tried to keep it and i put it in my pocket...

[psychoklown66]

man.... cockroach of the swamp... but damn they are tasty! :D

[Fajjani]

Catching crawfish is lots of fun.

[ppcoonass]

my traps are in the spillway. i got some down the 16 big fork and the shell field im 14 i been doin it all my life

[OPennyworth]

what do you do with them? for eating only?

[Skeeb107]

Those are some big crawfish.

[vanhalenboy3]

me and my friends call it crayfish noodlin here in illinois lol. r biggest catch was 9 inchs and we use are hands. the biggest ones we keep as pets and the medium sized ones we eat. yummmmm

[bowhunter324]

what kind of boat is that I am starting to crawfish and your video inspired me even more

[gBLOCKbandit]

how did u make that trap?

please write me back

[TheMathewLopez]

australian ponds,streams.river.etc.. have somewhat hard water. rich in calcium makes yabbies grow big and strong.. hence ther big size ..

[jikininki1]

over at this lake near my place there is craw dads about as big as a small lobster there freaking monsters

[rmsolympic1]

I have seen them like that before. For instance, at a large creek near Monterey, California, I saw and caught huge, nearly lobster size crayfish. Not only were they gigantic but tey also had a somewhat different shell texture and color to them. I have never seen any crays like them anywhere else.

[pyro4377]

the crawfish at luguna grande park in monterey are about over ten years old and they are red and black also very tasty

[rileyjr16]

hell yeah, i crawfish during the season, being 17 years old, it aint a bad way to make a living in south louisiana during march-early may. made about 600 for helping in about 3 weeks.

[bonehead1902]

That looks fun.

[ConCacQuaTo]

I love them mothers.... good eating there bud

[packerfannumber1]

did u eat them? good video

[BigDOutdoors]

Sure did, YUM YUM!

BTW, I thought my brother was the number 1 Packer Fan!!!

[jtschid0910]

Thats a lot of crawfish

[skater1737]

we ran traps yesterday and caught 2 sacks with 35 traps

[BigDOutdoors]

Where?

[imabandgeek87]

i have bigger ones on average in california, but not as many at once.

[vahagnantonyan]

its real common name is crayfish, they belong to phylum arthropoda, if you havev studied biology. so crawfish is kind of teh popular name, but the right and real name is crayfish

[karamalhasan]

crayfish idoits

[steve92394]

damn i catch them by a creek by my house in maryland and the biggest one ive ever caought was the size of your average one

[should6]

poor crayfish

[tastythighs180]

IT'S CRAWFISH!

[pablowall]

in your country its crawfish, in his country its crayfish, in australia they call spiny lobsters crayfish and they call crayfish yabbies... have some tolerance lol or maybe start calling them by their scientific name? so there is no confusion

[tastythighs180]

i'm not intolerant. crawfish was the original word. they were called "crawlfish" because they lived in the water but could crawl with legs. soon the cajun accent made it sound simply like crawfish. then when northerners discovered them as a food source it somehow got corrupted into crayfish. and i have no idea how they came up with crawdad in australia they never really heard the term crawfish so they came up with yabbie. but these are not blue australian yabbies. these are american crawfish.

[pablowall]

really? thats pretty cool, i'l research your theory, sounds plausable. thanks for that bit of info :)

[gameguide10159]

I'm from Illinois, so I don't eat crawfish. I put them in a clean kid pool and feed them fish. Then, I let them go.

[hugelargemouths]

where im from crawfish arent anywhere near that size!

[frankbombs]

anyway... you really should be rowing. and some of those crawfish in that first batch are way to small. but i guess you must not be commercial.

[amaricansoilder]

the second trap was pretty good

[CrazyScott85]

So wait you use crawfish as bait and catch fish? The fish are dead though.

[veal225]

No way man! We eat the crawfish lol the dead fish is the bait :))

[CrazyScott85]

Lol yeah I know.

[SaintsRule84]

Yall needa make a video on how to make them pillow traps

[BennyBuster07]

WOW they are miniature look at our Australian crayfish lager version of these piss weak things

[GreenRotifer]

But what tastes better?

American Crawfish...

[frankbombs]

actually the australian ones are more like lobster. they get bigger than most lobsters too. you cant compare the two. apples and oranges.... er.. more like grapefruits and oranges.

[Ianlongest]

i had sex in a deer stand once

[teamfortress2222]

the fuck?

[jsmith1257]

uh.....................

[douiopl]

my luck i would stick my hand in their and a gator would bite it off

[reddington13]

what bait do you put in the traps

[BigDOutdoors]

They use a combo of commercial crawfish bait and little pieces of mullet.

[reddington103]

where could you get the bait

[harminoff1]

do crawfish have to be caught in Louisiana we got huge craw-dads in the midwest

[BigDOutdoors]

Crawfish can be caught all over, even in Texas. But Louisiana is known for theirs.

[ikmarchini]

This doesn't seem like commercial quantities.  Is this for yourself or how do live on this?

[BigDOutdoors]

This is a friend of mine who catches them to sell to make a few extra dollars. Good quality though!!!

[wellcraft28]

crawfish are still following the Acadiean's from Canada...they lose their size as they swim South.

I still remember the flat nets, the "melt", the wasthubs on the Krotz Spring side..E Crevicce on Bayou Courtableau...any true coonasses out there???? and you boys caught crawfish out of boat...we used to grab (not gig) frogs out of boats. the crawfish we caught by hand. or when they pass the farm on the run...its a saint landry parish thing...

[seeyouintheeighties]

i always thought crawfish were huge, even bigger than a lobster, so if their not what the hell am i thinking of?

[colinleroux1]

what is the difference between crawfish and crayfish?

[mkjredemption]

nothing people call them diffrent things depending on the part of the world your in

[BigDOutdoors]

I always thought that crayfish were bigger.

[flandersander]

I assume you made those traps yourself? How did you go about making them? Thanks

[BigDOutdoors]

My friend makes them out of chicken wire. There is a unique design to making them work right.

[pyrotek13579]

a boat sherlock!

[bugman2494]

darn alot of water hyacinth

[navycomand]

wat r u driving?

[BigDOutdoors]

The boat is aluminum and made by a friend of mine in Louisiana. I will try to get their website.

[Yoruyonaka]

pinch the other end closed, throw it in the water. Use frozen fish (not fresh caught, it will break up and float out too quickly; you want your bait to still be evident in the trap when you pick it up, if possible) for bait. For locations, look anywhere where there are lots of holes in the banks; that's a no brainer of course. Any small creek will have some crayfish though, and ponds with lots of foliage seem to be pretty much stocked. specially if they have good mudbanks :D