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When is the best time to catch crawdads?
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03-24-2004, 06:14 PM
My daughter has been hounding me about going after crawdads since she saw them on a cooking show!She loves to eat those critters!I am going to buy a crawdad trap this weekend but were do i go to catch them and how? Were is a place were they are abundant enough for us to catch them?
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03-24-2004, 06:26 PM
The three bodies of water that I have had success at are Strawberry/Soldier Creek, Scolfield and Deer Creek. I have only caught the ones at Deer Creek while scuba diving. Both the berry and Scofield have an abundant number and seem to best be caught in the summer months.
The best place I have found is next to the Soldier Creek dam where there are lots of rocks. You can go out there with a bucket, old chicken and piece of string and have hours of fun... especially with the kids. A bait net is very helpful with this method. My kids and I can fill a 5lb bucket in an hour using this method. You can also get a pamphlet on crawdads in Utah at any DWR location and it tells you which waters their in, how to catch, clean, and cook em! Just remember that you cannot transport them live. Have fun and happy eatin'![cool] [signature]
03-24-2004, 06:31 PM
There also good numbers in settlement res. in tooele
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03-24-2004, 06:32 PM
Hey thats great info! So old rotten chicken will work?Or how about fried chicken? The fried chicken will send a grease trail think that will work better? Just curious.Is there a limit of what you can keep?
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03-24-2004, 06:36 PM
Hey ocean, I've found that KFC fried chicken works awesome!! The best thing to do is just tie on a drumstick if you're using a line (not a trap). You can eat the chicken first and just tie on nothing but the drumstick bone. I found this out when I was at Flaming Gorge once, in the marina near the dam. We ran out of chicken, because eventually the crawdads tear it up or it falls off the line. So we just tied on a bare drumstick. Whamo! It worked just as good as the chicken meat, but it stayed tied to the line much better and you could use it for hours and catch one after another. That's what I recommend.
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03-24-2004, 06:36 PM
no limit... raw chicken is better cause it holds togeter better. fried chicken will just fall off the bone and not be as effective. raw bacon, liver and cutbait work well too.
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03-24-2004, 06:37 PM
I definitely was more hooked than the fish! No doubt about that!!!
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03-24-2004, 06:45 PM
Cool i love KFC! i guess i can pick me up a bucket of chicken and some crawdads!
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03-24-2004, 07:05 PM
I like to camp at Renegade when I go to Strawberry. My favorite shoreline to dangle a string and chicken leg for crawdads is highlighted in yellow below. [center]
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03-24-2004, 09:23 PM
We had a great trip out to Scofield last year where we caught and ate a half a cooler full. We parked on the beach that is across from the boat ramp in the channel by the dam. We are thinking of putting together a BFT trip this spring or summer to go play with crawfish. If you go let us know how you do and have fun.
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03-24-2004, 11:38 PM
Give Grantsville res. a try. Me and my folks have filled up big pillow cases in just a few hours out there. Just fish in the rocky areas, take some baccon and use fish guts once you get them. We just tie them on a line, and throw it out. A few of the bigger dads will break ya off, though. There are some monsters in there! Its really fun out there! I wouldn't recomend anywhere ealse.
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03-24-2004, 11:45 PM
cesar you can catch them at burrastons, either in the ponds themself or the river that runs behind it, if you go on the dirt road on the east side of the ponds just over the RR tracks turn north and hang a first left, the water is rocky there and there are some deep holes there that are great
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03-25-2004, 05:05 AM
If you go to the boat ramp at Soldier Creek in the summer. Take 3 or 4 drumsticks and a couple of nets. Throw the drumsticks in about 6 inches of water about 10 feet apart. Me and another adult and three kids filled a 100qt cooler in two hours. No poles or line needed. Just cruise back and forth on the ramp and scoop em up. I take a large landing net with larger holes in it, that way you only catch the big clawed males. My son and daughter, 9 and 12, just stay off to the side by the rocks and catch them with their bare hands. They love it. Be sure you tail them b4 you leave. It is illegal to transport live crayfish in Utah.
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03-25-2004, 05:29 AM
The best time: to catch crawfish is during the summer time at night june - sept.
The best bait: is raw chicken backs are great but legs work and are easier to find also cheap. The best: places my favorites are strawberry or solider creek, big sand wash, settlement canyon res. talk is scofield is very good also but I have never been there. Best method: I prefer nets to traps, traps are slow. chicken tied to a piece of string works better than traps. use a fishing net or butterfly net (smaller holes crawfish fall through the larger holes of a fishing net) to scoop behind the chicken to get the ones that fall off as you bring in the string. Give the kids a net and flashlight and let them go wild catching them as they crawl around the edge of the lake at night can't wait to GO!! Hope this helps you if you need more Info PM me. Wes. [signature]
03-25-2004, 03:13 PM
Faming Gorge! Right at Manilla on the docks we loaded up enough to feed 3 big guys in just a couple hours. We got to the lake at 8PM launched the boat docked it for the night loaded all our gear, then caught dads until midnight, cooked them up and gorged ourselves of the little critters. We all made music all night from the dinner. I don't know what was more fun, catching the little buggers, eating them of playing music all night, had us in stiches most of the night.
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