Lay crawdad traps for day while fishing

I recently took up laying crab traps with the kayak and loved it. Since I live inland and don't get to the coast as much as I'd like, I'm curious about setting traps for crawdads at the start of a day, fishing, then pulling them on my way out. Anyone do this? Thinking about places like the delta, the Sac, the Stan, etc.

Thanks in advance

Lots of crawdads in slow sloughs and also some lakes where you are at in Sonora. I think the closest to you would probably be around the SJ river.

I used to live in Cedar Ridge above Sonora. Had to leave back in 1999 when my company laid me off. Now retired in the Great State of Texas where I can pick crawdads up at the end of my block when we get a hard rain. They are so stupid here.

I used to catch crawdads in Woods Creek at the high school/community pool. This was late 70s early 80s.

I set crawdad traps when I go fishing in Siskiyou County.  I don’t often retain fish there except yellow perch, but I do love some mud bugs.

I'll set a trap on my way in from a day fishing my favorite high mountain lake (which will remain nameless).  Next morning, I'll collect the dads and cook them up, clean 'em and add them to my scrambled eggs.  If there's enough, I'll chill them and take back on the water for a snack.  If the wife is with me, she'll use them in a salad as protein. 

Love crawdads they are the poormans lobster. I just haven't able dial in with catching them. I guess being far from freshwater known to produced mud bug is a bit of a drive.

i set some in tahoe before with some good success overnight...but day soaks didnt seem to do as well go figure.

The backwaters in the Delta, north of Tracy, are good for Crayfish. They say younger women and children can have two servings a week from there.
https://oehha.ca.gov/fish/advisories/delta-central-and-south-0

Fuckin Australia tho,....g’dam!

I used to catch them in the creek near my grandparents' house outside Napa with scraps of expired lunch meat to bait them out from under rocks and tongs to snatch them up.  Then Gram would cook them up cajun style.

I was just reminiscing with Gram about that the other day, 95 and still sharp as a tack...

I love this idea!

Arroyo Seco on the way to Monterey has crawdads in it. My buddies used to snorkel and get them in the warm months

Now retired in the Great State of Texas where I can pick crawdads up at the end of my block when we get a hard rain.

LOL .. grew up there.  Used to get crawdads in the creek at the end of my street or any creek.  Haven't tried to get them here in CA.

Now retired in the Great State of Texas where I can pick crawdads up at the end of my block when we get a hard rain.

LOL .. grew up there.  Used to get crawdads in the creek at the end of my street or any creek.  Haven't tried to get them here in CA.

Yea, here in California, calling them crawDADS is likely to get you labeled some sort of phobe.  Gender profiler you! 

I used to catch them in the creek near my grandparents' house outside Napa with scraps of expired lunch meat ...

When I was a kid (in Iowa) we used to catch them using meat tied to a string. The best bait was a piece of bacon fat.

I used to catch them in the creek near my grandparents' house outside Napa with scraps of expired lunch meat ...

When I was a kid (in Iowa) we used to catch them using meat tied to a string. The best bait was a piece of bacon fat.

I'd use a string around a chunk of hot dog.  The dog would float so I'd shove a small rock inside to get it to sink.  Then drop into rock crevices in the creek.  I had a bucket I'd drop them in and catch them by the hundreds.  Later, I'd crawl down the storm drains with a kerosene lantern and catch them at the concrete joints of the tubes.  Not as many but fun.  We would use these storm drains as our private tunnels to get around.  Because of the echo, when someone's parent called a friend would shout down the storm drain and we could hear and come back without getting caught.