summer time mud bug action

[hillbilly]

dont know bout you guys, but i am dying for a fresh batch of crawdads. Anybody have any info on selling or raising live bait? I doubt i could get very far with selling them for consumption(what i would rather due) but there are about a gillion bait stores around here to due the rivers and lakes.

Hillbilly

[iowatrapper]

How do you fix crayfish and how do you clean them? I have wanted to try them for some time but always seem to want to go bassin much more lol.

[hillbilly]

Very simple. Boil them in salt water(i like a really salty water), for a few minutes, it dont take all that long, they'll turn really bright red, crack 'em open and eat, like a tiny like lobster, maybe better.
If the mud vein grosses you out, you can soak the alive in warm salt water for an hour or so, helps clean them out.

Hillbilly

[badger]

Hillbilly, do you add any cayene to your boil??

[hillbilly]

Naw, i aint much on the hot stuff, i'm a huge garlic fan so i not only boil them with garlic, i make a real salty garlic sauce and put them in that to cool them down once they come out the boil.
Thats one of the big secrets to boiling crawdads(or any shellfish for that matter), pull them straight out of the boil, and put them in something cool, like a buttery garlic sauce, stops the cooking process and keeps them tender and juicy.

Hillbilly

[gary]

i hear ya man .... thinkin i may go get me a few here very soon .... cousin been after me to get a batch to cook up ... have one spot that is AMAZING !! catch em in seines .... two or three passes and 5 gallon bucket comin up !!