03-12-2003, 01:21 PM
[cool]If you wanna get serious about 'daddin', freeze up the heads and filleted out carcasses of your eatin' fish. Bait a trap with a couple, or just tie a chunk on a line. That's what them crawdaddies live for...dead fish that have sunk to the bottom. I have been diving in lakes and rivers where I have seen huge mounds of crawdads gathered over a single dead fish. In a matter of hours, there is nothing but picked bones. They have sensitive scent receptors on their antennae that help them home in quickly on anything edible.
After dark, 'dads will venture up into only a few inches of water. But, when the light comes up (and predators come out) they retreat to deeper water and hide out under rocks or in the weeds. This makes them more difficult to catch in numbers, but if you offer something fishy-licious they will come out to play.
Just remember, you ain't an official "mudbug" eater until you suck the heads too.
Oh yeah, one last thing. Save the small ones and the soft shelled ones. Kill them and freeze them in water for catfish bait. Un-bee-leevable how Mr. Whiskers appreciates them little fresh water lobsters. Big trout like 'em too.
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After dark, 'dads will venture up into only a few inches of water. But, when the light comes up (and predators come out) they retreat to deeper water and hide out under rocks or in the weeds. This makes them more difficult to catch in numbers, but if you offer something fishy-licious they will come out to play.
Just remember, you ain't an official "mudbug" eater until you suck the heads too.
Oh yeah, one last thing. Save the small ones and the soft shelled ones. Kill them and freeze them in water for catfish bait. Un-bee-leevable how Mr. Whiskers appreciates them little fresh water lobsters. Big trout like 'em too.
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