Homemade Crawdad Traps?

Not to thread-jack, but just curious why crawdads only seem to be popular as food in LA (the state, not the city), when they are common pretty much everywhere...

Cultural upbringing

Thanks for making me pull these out.  Pricey and presently have to clean up and tweak a few things, but before the water gets cold, the Marin lakes have some population

Not to thread-jack, but just curious why crawdads only seem to be popular as food in LA (the state, not the city), when they are common pretty much everywhere...

There used to be a crawdad festival in Isleton, but it got politicked out of existence. There is a commercial crawdad fishery in Calif, restricted to "moving water" meaning rivers and streams. A guy sells them at the Sunday farmers' market in Sacto. Sport fishermen can do either lakes or rivers. One of the best spots in this area is Lake Natomas, below Folsom Dam. It's flat across almost the whole bottom, and the bottom is basically cobblestones, so crayfish do really well there. This also explains the huge Brown Trout that sometimes get caught there. Now y'all got me wanting to get out and catch some...

Cold creek Potter Valley and talmage dam outside of Ukiah always had large ones. I used to dive for them with mask snorkel and fins and a leather glove on hot summer days and only cherry pick the big ones. reminds me of a Funny Story Tallmadge dams I'd like to share. one day diving there I found a hole in a five foot Bank of growing Moss and curiosity made me look into the hole to see what had made it and it was a male or female catfish Spawning nest with one in it. took my fin off and poked it into the hole hoping to catch it. Bam something stuck my back bam stuck in the side again it was its mate. had two hickies to prove it but no pics

story did not end there swam away from that location and headed back to where I had started my dive and I saw another hole in the moss and tried to steer clear of i man got struck again same scenario and that wasn't even f....nng with it.came back to beach with three Catfish hickeys

Come on now, are you not confessing that you are a closet noodler..........

Come on now, are you not confessing that you are a closet noodler..........

Eddie! Thanks for showing us pictures of your crawdad traps.

If I get a chance this weekend I'm going to try and set mine out somewhere along the Delta.

BTW another great spot is Hell Hole Resevoir! I remember one year pulling out super good quality, bright red and large crawdads!

We really need to do a crawdad hookup!

William Land Park in Sacramento has  a few fish ponds every once in a while they  clean them out. They put a chemical in that takes out the oxygen killing all the fishes. The crayfish come to the edge of the acre or 2 pond 4 feet out in water to the edge solid crayfish. Might not be the healthiest thing to eat if the chemicals they use are toxic.

This trap works great.
https://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=chicken+wire+crawfish+trap&view=detail&mid=EEEB820DDAA7F0792243EEEB820DDAA7F0792243&FORM=VIRE

Great thread, now I know what to do with all that leftover hardware cloth from building my chicken coop.

They are tasty,  nothing like old bay and butter. Seems like we all got our spots.

Wow nice cooler of yummy crawdads!