crawfish

[Delaware Dave]

I love crawdads and have eaten tons of them cought in shallow rivers.... But never thought of diveing for them.

 

[CaptainB]

Yes I have gathered Crawfish underwater from my Crawfish Condos in the Bahamas. If you stab them in the chest they become immobile and you can fill a steel bucket before coming up. If anyone wants to join me when the crawfish season opens again in August they are welcome to. There is nothing like baked crawfish
Recipe:
1 large Bahamian crawfish tail- 3lbs
Cut down middle creating 2 halves lengthwise and remove entrail if still in
marinate in lime-juice, salt, black pepper, red-pepper for 30 mins
lay in baking pan and cover with red-pepper, sliced onions, butter
bake 20 mins
serve with chilled dry german white wine preferably from Bergstrasse / Ingelheim area- Kloster Eberbach for example
Coctail to follow-up:
Fresh orange juice, ice and Bahamian coconut rum
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[ocrmaster]

Crawfish = also know as mud bug in Louisiana.

There is nothing better than corn, potatoes, and crawfish boil.

And a keg of Bruskies!!!

Please join us in a Crawfish Feast on May 4 - 6, 2007

 

[Rodsboots]

How do you cook em? just boil? any tips?

 

[Crawl79]

This is a very interesting post. My family also has an aquarium for crayfish. Its about 20 acres and called a crawish pond. We have two boats that go through the mud and onto the levee and check traps every day during the season. Sell most and keep enough to have weekly crawfish boils.
Corn potatoes and Zatarans Louisiana Crawfish boils is all that is needed but, you may want to add other foods as well. I like onoins, garlic, sausage, carrots, and couliflour. Experiment and let me know if you find anything that dosnt taste good in a crawfish boil. Just dont forget the beer.

 

[Wildcard]

MMMMmmmmmm. I have been a bug fan my whole life. As a child I got em in the American river by tying a fish head on a string then lowering it oner brush piles and beaver dams. Pull it up slow and have a dip net ready! Then I learned I could snorlke for them, fun but didn't catch as many. Then I was sent to LA for a couple of years and became a swamp rat. Had a whole string of traps and a wading pool in my back yard to hold them, big for eatting and small for bait. Cut the tops off of beer cans sideways in an electric can opener and dump em in the pond for homes so they don't try to escape then harvest as needed. Then back to Nor Cal and I had a dozen round pots I built. Cold clear bugs are much better than mud bugs. Mmmmm Even thought of doing it commercial for a while. CA is second only to LA in bug production BTW. Bugs, MMMnmmmmm. Both my daughter and GF were born in LA, true coon *** bug lovers. But diving for them? Hummm, gotta try that!

 

[mike_s]

since someone said above it was amazing how fast they reproduce... just how do they do that? I guess I've never considered it.

are they 'live birth' or are they eggs laid? fertilized before or after they are laid if eggs?


so what does an "infant" crawfish look like? just like the big one but smaller or different?

 

[Wildcard]

They carry there eggs under there tails like bigger bugs. The rest I don't know.

 

[mike_s]

They carry there eggs under there tails like bigger bugs. The rest I don't know.

that's right! I remember that as a kid now... (from when we used to catch them in the creek)