Report the last few weeks Crawdads & Sammies

Been fishing a ton w/ Mr. Matt Lately and having a blast. Working hard, tossing flies, spinners, and building traps for some bugs also. Mainly been working the AR for all it's tasty creatures.

While salmon fishing we came across an area loaded with Mudbugs. Since I am an east coaster Crawdad boil popped into my head, and it just so happened I have a 160qt pot with a double jet burner.

Total take of the crawdads have been 75 pounds in only a few trips. I built up some traps and we used dip nets also. We Let the traps soak while drift fishing, and pull them every 30-40mins.

Here is a few pics to water your tastebuds…

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Nola id love to get in on some of that action... Howd u make those traps i need to build a couple..!!

Just used some plastic rolls I bought from Lowes. The traps cost me about $5.00 a each to build. cheap enough and not worried about them getting stolen. Did some research online and came up with a slightly different design.

Wow that's alot of crawfish they are so good. Nicely done on the net.

Sweet id love a close up shot of the design if u have one... Or a link

Not sure why you forgot the trophy fish....

disclaimer! I have HUGE hands…

Not sure why you forgot the trophy fish....

If I remember I made the traps about 28L and about 10W

Sweet id love a close up shot of the design if u have one... Or a link

Sweet yeah only other question i have is how u get the crays out the trap? I dont see a door...? Or a bait box etc. ive got a couple traps and often set them up in Tahoe. Id love to get together and do a boil... Maybe trap a bunch then shoot down to doran and do some crabs at same time.... Thx for posting

I used to live in NOLA too, and would love some crawfish out here! Let me know when you guys want to do it! And where's BigJim? I bet he'd be all over this! Probably out diving.....

Oh man, and crab too... I used to catch blues with hot dogs!

awesome reports
thanks

That is alot of bugs!!! Nice traps.... And good report

Awesome!

Sweet yeah only other question i have is how u get the crays out the trap? I dont see a door...? Or a bait box etc. ive got a couple traps and often set them up in Tahoe. Id love to get together and do a boil... Maybe trap a bunch then shoot down to doran and do some crabs at same time.... Thx for posting

Ditto.  Sounds like a good idea to me.

Looks like some fun and tasty adventures on the AR! Nice.

I woke up in a cold sweat dreaming about crushing 15lbs to my head...