Crawdads at Sandmound and Piper Slu

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2 crawdads caught on dry dog food and released this morning
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Saw lots of activity on the fish finder and a nearby bass fisherman caught 3 striped bass over 18"
 
Try canned dog/cat food. Punch a few holes in the cans. Have caught lots of 'bugs in the delta, various lakes in Marin County and Santa Rosa Creek.
 
We used to catch hundred of those things in a trap up by Vieira's in the rip-rap. One time very long ago we were eating at Moore's Riverboat at its original location and they had crawdads on the menu. I ordered it and they were quite good so I asked where in the delta they got ones as big as these were. She told be that they didn't get them in the delta but ordered them from Louisiana somewhere. Go figure, a billion crawdads in the delta and they ship them in from out of state.

DBH
 
I don't purge them before eating, so what ever I feed them I am eating. I put a can of mackerel from the dollar store in the trap. putting a cover on the up side of your trap helps, they like to hide from all the predators out there so don't like to be in the open. we keep enough for dinner and throw the rest back.

DBH how did you set up to get that many?
 
We did a little trapping for two years on the Sacramento from Vieira's north to Isleton along the rip-rap banks. We bought a plastic, commerically made trap that was about 3 feet long and maybe 18 inches high and baited it with canned dog food with holes punched in it.(I like your idea of cheap but edible tuna or mackeral better now that I think about it) We then would soak the trap all night and would end up with 75-100 every time we pulled the thing up. My mom would sit under the shade trees at Vieira's and clean them after boiling them for a few minutes. Hard work for very little meat, but fun all the same. We tried several times at night to use live crawdads for bait but had no luck at all.

DBH
 
hvacmach, I like your idea of using canned fish for bait, thank you for that suggestion.
 
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Originally posted by deltabighat

One time very long ago we were eating at Moore's Riverboat at its original location and they had crawdads on the menu. I ordered it and they were quite good so I asked where in the delta they got ones as big as these were. She told be that they didn't get them in the delta but ordered them from Louisiana somewhere. Go figure, a billion crawdads in the delta and they ship them in from out of state.

DBH

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Yeah, I had my first crawdads at Moore's back in the mid to late 70's.

They used to celebrate their season opening and season closing by offering up free food. Crawdads included.

The place just hasn't been the same since the Sutter was sold off to the SJYC. The old Catfish Cafe might look nice as Moore's, but the place just doesn't "have it"... [:-indifferent]

Maybe if they replaced the undies up on the ceiling??? [:-smile_green]
 
Lady Athena is demonstrating use of the special tackle box tool known as a "church key" to open the Kirkland Wild Sockeye Salmon can for our Crawdad guests.
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LOL "Hawww, Dad, do I have to???"

Just let him bite the can a few times to put holes around in a random manner.......
 
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