Got me some Crawfish... Who likes Mudbugs?

imacoonass01 · April 16, 2018, 13:32

Got a couple of sacks and fixing to boil me some crawfish. Who here loves them mudbugs? Also, useless fact..... Humans are the only animals who actually enjoy eating spicy food (I am almost sure that my dog doesn't know this).

Randall · April 16, 2018, 13:42

mmmmmmm. Love me some crawfish.

**4x401** · April 16, 2018, 13:44

Love the tail and claw meat, but can't bring myself to suck that nasty shit from the head...😝

**embatp** · April 16, 2018, 13:45

Looking good....

**C-ya** · April 16, 2018, 13:46

Hard to find good ones here in MI. I may have to start trapping my own as there are apparently some in the rivers around me.

imacoonass01 · April 16, 2018, 13:53

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Originally Posted by C-ya

Hard to find good ones here in MI. I may have to start trapping my own as there are apparently some in the rivers around me.

I used to trap them when I lived in Louisiana (good times back in them young days). Now I got to buy them, here in Texas.

I usually just buy some already boiled, just for myself, but this time I am having a family get together.

easttex · April 16, 2018, 13:57

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Originally Posted by imacoonass01

I used to trap them when I lived in Louisiana (good times back in them young days). Now I got to buy them, here in Texas.

I usually just buy some already boiled, just for myself, but this time I am having a family get together.

Here in Fort Worth, I pay $9.00/lb cooked and they're bland as hell.

Back when I lived in Nacogdoches, my Cajun friends would bring them up from Villa Platte and boil them for us. If they couldn't come visit, good crawfish were only an hour or two motorcycle ride away. Damn I miss living closer to Acadiana...

pmf · April 16, 2018, 14:07

When they're done boiling, throw some ice in the water. It makes them shrink and absorb more of the spices in the water.

imacoonass01 · April 16, 2018, 14:25

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Originally Posted by easttex

Here in Fort Worth, I pay $9.00/lb cooked and they're bland as hell.

Back when I lived in Nacogdoches, my Cajun friends would bring them up from Villa Platte and boil them for us. If they couldn't come visit, good crawfish were only an hour or two motorcycle ride away. Damn I miss living closer to Acadiana...

Notmuch more to love than good boiled crawfish, riding in the wind (rubber side down) and family / friends.... beer also,

imacoonass01 · April 16, 2018, 14:26

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Originally Posted by pmf

When they're done boiling, throw some ice in the water. It makes them shrink and absorb more of the spices in the water.

Check. Do that to get the water around 165 degrees.

jhend170 · April 16, 2018, 14:40

Church is having their annual boil this weekend. If I die with half a tail hanging out of my mouth those who know me will know I was happy when I went.

**Sagerider** · April 16, 2018, 15:00

I got turned on to mud bugs down in Vicksburg Mississippi years ago. Been thinking lately about how to trap them myself. Anyone got a good trap idea?

**LAFAL** · April 16, 2018, 15:07

What PMF said- the ice trick works. Also, crack some eggs into the boil and let them poach. Then fish them out and snack on them whilst waiting for the crawdads to float. They really soak up some spice!
I love living in central Louisiana- we're surrounded by crawfish/rice fields and get to eat them all season!

meltblown · April 16, 2018, 15:18

My wife likes them...I think they're nasty

**Arby** · April 16, 2018, 17:07

I had some good (large!) boiled crawfish Saturday. Had a seafood salad yesterday with crawfish tails, shrimp and crabmeat.

Life is GOOD!

imacoonass01 · April 16, 2018, 17:38

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Originally Posted by meltblown

My wife likes them...I think they're nasty

I bet she says "Good! More for me.....

meltblown · April 16, 2018, 18:12

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Originally Posted by imacoonass01

I bet she says "Good! More for me.....

What is the name of that place over Lake Charles by the bridge. I think it’s the steamboat or something. She order them and I got red beans and rice. Could watch her eat and they are stinky. Ya see I don’t eat food from the water but maybe a good piece of fried catfish

**Texgunner** · April 16, 2018, 19:01

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Originally Posted by meltblown

Ya see I don’t eat food from the water but maybe a good piece of fried catfish

My son says he prefers that his meat started off on hoofs. He ain't a seafood fan either.

medicmike · April 16, 2018, 19:11

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Originally Posted by 4x401

Love the tail and claw meat, but can't bring myself to suck that nasty shit from the head...😝

Same here.

We used to trap some pretty good sized crawdads out of the Rouge River.

**Arby** · April 16, 2018, 19:45

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Originally Posted by Texgunner

My son says he prefers that his meat started off on hoofs. He ain't a seafood fan either.

I'm with your son, in that I want my meat to start out on hooves, or perhaps spindly little legs (like poultry & fowl).

But I want my seafood to have fins, or at least tails!

Red Snapper...Ling...Redfish...Amberjack...Shrimp....S pecs....Great stuff!

Meltblown, I bet if you spent enough time with some of us east of the Sabine and sampled seafood platters, crawfish platters, shrimp platters, and crab platters at the right restaurants, you'd come to really appreciate crawfish and a lot of "les fruits de mer". It's good stuff!

imacoonass01 · April 16, 2018, 22:54

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Originally Posted by meltblown

What is the name of that place over Lake Charles by the bridge. I think it’s the steamboat or something. She order them and I got red beans and rice. Could watch her eat and they are stinky. Ya see I don’t eat food from the water but maybe a good piece of fried catfish

Steamboat Bills. I ate there before , but not in crawfish season. Lol, do not know what you missing. Did you even try any? Besides, the more you eat , the more beer you drink.

TedKennedy · April 17, 2018, 06:29

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Originally Posted by Sagerider

I got turned on to mud bugs down in Vicksburg Mississippi years ago. Been thinking lately about how to trap them myself. Anyone got a good trap idea?

1/2 mesh fence material make your own, or there are plenty already made. Crawfish are in every body of water around here, just remember they like fresh meat. The little suckers like watermelon too, believe it or not!

**C-ya** · April 17, 2018, 07:47

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Originally Posted by Sagerider

I got turned on to mud bugs down in Vicksburg Mississippi years ago. Been thinking lately about how to trap them myself. Anyone got a good trap idea?

Nice little town. My ship was named after the Civil War battle there. I went up a couple of times during the precommissioning phase from 'Goula.

**Bug Tussell** · April 17, 2018, 08:27

Crawfish have been amazingly proliferate across the nation. I've seen them in the high mountain lakes in Arizona and in acequias near me in New Mexico. Don't know about the Rio Grande but I wouldn't know why not.
Those little bugs are like blackberries - grow from coast to coast.

**ExCdnSoldierInTx** · April 17, 2018, 08:44

Bloody disgusting mess, that. Like eating swimming locusts. I'd rather eat 100 year old C-rats than that nasty crap.

TedKennedy · April 17, 2018, 08:49

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Originally Posted by ExCdnSoldierInTx

Bloody disgusting mess, that. Like eating swimming locusts. I'd rather eat 100 year old C-rats than that nasty crap.

Good. I hope you don't eat catfish, froglegs, menudo, or any "real" Oriental food as well. More for me!

I am always amazed at people who find natural foods disgusting, yet give no thought to what went in to their packaged, processed "food".

Gravelface1 · April 17, 2018, 09:00

$9lb?!

Good grief. I just run out to Manchac and catch crabs on handlines and a couple crawfish nets and turn a good weekend great!!!

When stationed at FT Hood, first time I saw boiled crawfish I didn’t recognize them.....something about dumping seasoning on the outside....blasphemy!!!!

**Right Side Up** · April 17, 2018, 11:25

I love boiled crawfish, but they have to be hot. Hot enough to make my nose run and eyes water.

jhend170 · April 17, 2018, 11:29

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Originally Posted by Sagerider

I got turned on to mud bugs down in Vicksburg Mississippi years ago. Been thinking lately about how to trap them myself. Anyone got a good trap idea?

Buy a large wire minnow trap or small fish trap and drop a piece of salt pork into it and lower it into the water to the bottom. They crawl up the cone into the hole and can't get out. Might have to weight it so the cone lays on the bottom. You can make your own with a large plastic bottle that has a tapered top to a screw-on lid. Cut the bottle around where the taper starts, invert it back into the bottle, poke some holes to wire it together. Same concept.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Frabill-M...3=1103&veh=sem

alphadog58 · April 17, 2018, 11:48

I once trapped a whole bunch in a wire mesh minnow pot in the pond behind my house. Boiled them up with some blue crab seasoning. Not bad! We have the big bugs from Long Island Sound. Lots more meat in ‘em, don’t have to eat as many.
Larry

**Texgunner** · April 17, 2018, 12:07

We went crawdad fishin' every time it rained in our neighborhood growing up. The bar ditches were full of their "chimneys". Usually we caught them one at a time, on a string lowered into the hole. We tied a bit of fresh bacon on the string. One day, in a flash of inspiration, I took a 3 foot square piece of window screen and tied bacon in the center. We lowered the screen into the ditch and pulled it up later with several crawfish stuck by their legs in the screen. Economy of scale!

jhend170 · April 17, 2018, 12:41

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Originally Posted by jhend170

Buy a large wire minnow trap or small fish trap and drop a piece of salt pork into it and lower it into the water to the bottom. They crawl up the cone into the hole and can't get out. Might have to weight it so the cone lays on the bottom. You can make your own with a large plastic bottle that has a tapered top to a screw-on lid. Cut the bottle around where the taper starts, invert it back into the bottle, poke some holes to wire it together. Same concept.

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Frabill-M...3=1103&veh=sem

And here's an example...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPgHKvo_TBs

**Mebsuta** · April 17, 2018, 17:50

Would probably eat them in gumbo if it didn't have the claws in it and stuff, but just by themselves wouldn't unless I had to.

meltblown · April 17, 2018, 18:12

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Originally Posted by Mebsuta

Would probably eat them in gumbo if it didn't have the claws in it and stuff, but just by themselves wouldn't unless I had to.

It takes about 10 lbs just to get a pound of meat. Then you got all them stinky carcasses to get rid of. 9 bucks a pound is damn high Hell some Cajun boiled peanuts have a better yield and go down very well with beer.

Darrel’s has the best roast beef with ham po boys but you got to go more towards Lafayette

Sig220 · April 17, 2018, 19:11

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Originally Posted by meltblown

Darrel’s has the best roast beef with ham po boys but you got to go more towards Lafayette

Darrel's is in Lake Charles....on Loop 210. The sandwiches are pretty damned good. If you make that run.....keep going East on I-10 to the Hwy165 exit...head South about 1 or 2 miles to Rabideaux's. Better boudain then they have in Scott along with one of the best sausages and cracklins.

imacoonass01 · April 17, 2018, 19:14

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Originally Posted by Sig220

Darrel's is in Lake Charles....on Loop 210. The sandwiches are pretty damned good. If you make that run.....keep going East on I-10 to the Hwy165 exit...head South about 1 or 2 miles to Rabideaux's. Better boudain then they have in Scott along with one of the best sausages and cracklins.

That is very true.

**embatp** · April 17, 2018, 19:20

As far as restaurants in Louisiana go there are some good ones, but expect them to be a little watered down....if you can eat at someone’s home all the better....

**Arby** · April 17, 2018, 19:31

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Originally Posted by Mebsuta

Would probably eat them in gumbo if it didn't have the claws in it and stuff, but just by themselves wouldn't unless I had to.

You can buy the tails already peeled. I wouldn't make a gumbo with them, but an etouffee, bisque, or crawfish stew are always good choices. Just make sure you buy Louisiana crawfish tails, and not those imported from China, Spain, or other non-U.S. locales.

meltblown · April 17, 2018, 19:33

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Originally Posted by Sig220

Darrel's is in Lake Charles....on Loop 210. The sandwiches are pretty damned good. If you make that run.....keep going East on I-10 to the Hwy165 exit...head South about 1 or 2 miles to Rabideaux's. Better boudain then they have in Scott along with one of the best sausages and cracklins.

I didn’t know they had a Darrels in LC. Lot better than eating mudbugs at steamboat bills. It’s the gravy.
with mayo and tomatoes that is mighty fine.

Problem I’ve aleays had with Cajun food is no real cornbread or hush puppies. In Mississippi we mixed all that stuff up. We ate white bread rolls and loaf bread for sandwiches but a special good red beans and ham didn’t have any rice. It was cornbread with some onions and chow chow

Sig220 · April 17, 2018, 20:13

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Originally Posted by meltblown

I didn’t know they had a Darrels in LC. Lot better than eating mudbugs at steamboat bills. It’s the gravy.
with mayo and tomatoes that is mighty fine.

Problem I’ve aleays had with Cajun food is no real cornbread or hush puppies. In Mississippi we mixed all that stuff up. We ate white bread rolls and loaf bread for sandwiches but a special good red beans and ham didn’t have any rice. It was cornbread with some onions and chow chow

My favorite is the "Surf and Turf" Sliced beef with shrimp. At first glance sounds like it wouldn't go together, but the butter sauce bridges the gap and you will want more!! Just take care a shrimp does not shoot out the bottom of the sandwich......always hits you in the crotch!

Here is Darrells in LC menu.... http://darrellspoboys.com/menu/

And another for Rabideauxs....http://rabideauxs.com/ shame they don't ship!

imacoonass01 · April 17, 2018, 20:32

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Originally Posted by Sig220

My favorite is the "Surf and Turf" Sliced beef with shrimp. At first glance sounds like it wouldn't go together, but the butter sauce bridges the gap and you will want more!! Just take care a shrimp does not shoot out the bottom of the sandwich......always hits you in the crotch!

Here is Darrells in LC menu.... http://darrellspoboys.com/menu/

And another for Rabideauxs....http://rabideauxs.com/ shame they don't ship!

I just ate and you making me hungry again...

**ExCdnSoldierInTx** · April 17, 2018, 21:29

God gave us sharp front toofs. Because we're carnivores. We eat meat. As in carcasses. Not frikkin insects and grubs.

Ick.

Sig220 · April 17, 2018, 21:50

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Originally Posted by ExCdnSoldierInTx

God gave us sharp front toofs. Because we're carnivores. We eat meat. As in carcasses. Not frikkin insects and grubs.

Ick.

You got to try them before you can judge them. In season, we eat crawfish once a week.....we usually can get them from January thru the first week of July. They are good btw!

**12v71** · April 17, 2018, 22:04

Odd crawdad thing here in '09-10, locally our lake (Central Wa. state) was infested with huge crawdads (8 to 10 inches from tail to claw) they were some kind of hybrid that was dumped in the lake and took off like crazy. Fish and game wanted them gone, but wouldn't allow people the trap them because they weren't a native species? Anyways peeps I know were trapping them left and right on private property and well... they were... ahem... tasty like "rock lobster", they seemed to dwindle rapidly, so I kinda wonder if they were warm weather variety from down south that cant take the freeze here.

meltblown · April 17, 2018, 22:09

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Originally Posted by Sig220

My favorite is the "Surf and Turf" Sliced beef with shrimp. At first glance sounds like it wouldn't go together, but the butter sauce bridges the gap and you will want more!! Just take care a shrimp does not shoot out the bottom of the sandwich......always hits you in the crotch!

Here is Darrells in LC menu.... http://darrellspoboys.com/menu/

And another for Rabideauxs....http://rabideauxs.com/ shame they don't ship!

I'm going to try. The LC one

That french breD iZ a poboy Hott asina chixx in LC

easttex · April 17, 2018, 23:24

The trick to crawfish is knowing how to peel them rapidly. I know people who've tried them, thrown up their hands, and quit long before they got through their first pound. I'm usually on pound six or seven by that point and going back for thirds.

It's all in the technique.

1769 · April 18, 2018, 06:34

I skip those, and just make a trip to the coast. Pick up some good Maine Lobster

imacoonass01 · April 18, 2018, 08:26

Wow! This thread brought all the falers out of the woodworks, that live around me here in SE Texas. Maybe we should have a meetup sometime.

This does not exclude other falers...the more the merrier!

**Texgunner** · April 18, 2018, 08:53

One of my crawfishing buds had three older sisters. Sometimes, the younger two of them would ask to go with us. No girls, especially sisters, were invited! Well, one Saturday morning while watching cartoons, I hear a knock on the door. There stands Joe's sisters, with a big-ass galvanized bucket.

"Look what we caught!" I peered down into that bucket and saw the biggest damned crawdad I'd ever seen. That thing looked a foot long to me, and was red as a dick on a dog. The girls were grinning from ear to ear..."See? We don't need y'all to go crawfish' with us. We're doing better than y'all are!"

Huh. Showed us, they did. Damn old girls.

John A · April 18, 2018, 15:50

I like them. Especially with a dash of garlic salt. Mmmm. Mmmm.

Whoever was asking about how to catch them, there are a couple different store bought traps that can be had.

Even a regular minnow trap will catch crawdads. Much easier if you can put a rock near the entrance/exit hole so they can climb into it easier.

April 16, 2018, 13:32	#1
imacoonass01 Registered FALaholic #: 80275 Join Date: Nov 2017 Location: Vidor, TX Posts: 660	Got me some Crawfish... Who likes Mudbugs? Got a couple of sacks and fixing to boil me some crawfish. Who here loves them mudbugs? Also, useless fact..... Humans are the only animals who actually enjoy eating spicy food (I am almost sure that my dog doesn't know this). Last edited by imacoonass01; April 16, 2018 at 13:42. Reason: Picture sideways

April 16, 2018, 13:42	#2
Randall Registered FALaholic #: 4979 Join Date: Dec 2001 Location: Elk Grove, CA Posts: 2,768	mmmmmmm. Love me some crawfish. __________________ Purveyor Of Stupid Questions

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4x401 Giver of Noogies... Silver Contributor FALaholic #: 31978 Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: ORYGUN Posts: 9,098	Love the tail and claw meat, but can't bring myself to suck that nasty shit from the head...😝 __________________ _______________________________________________ "Boom in the crotch, boom in the crotch, and lets go to work".

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embatp What? Me AR? Silver Contributor FALaholic #: 39856 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Behind enemy lines... Posts: 4,166	Looking good.... __________________ "only he is lost who gives himself up for lost"

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C-ya One day at a time... Contributor FALaholic #: 16313 Join Date: Dec 2004 Location: Southwest MI Posts: 1,922	Hard to find good ones here in MI. I may have to start trapping my own as there are apparently some in the rivers around me. __________________ ΜOΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ US out of the UN!! UN out of the US!!

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pmf Registered FALaholic #: 2923 Join Date: Mar 2001 Posts: 1,875	When they're done boiling, throw some ice in the water. It makes them shrink and absorb more of the spices in the water.

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jhend170 Registered Contributor FALaholic #: 76477 Join Date: Sep 2015 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 1,580	Church is having their annual boil this weekend. If I die with half a tail hanging out of my mouth those who know me will know I was happy when I went.

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Sagerider Curio & Relic Silver Contributor FALaholic #: 66564 Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Montana Posts: 3,220	I got turned on to mud bugs down in Vicksburg Mississippi years ago. Been thinking lately about how to trap them myself. Anyone got a good trap idea? __________________ The fear of God is the beginning of wisdom. Matthew 25:1 thru 25:10 Be ready! The written word sometimes like poetry is never really finished but merely abandoned. I live alone in the middle of nowhere with two dogs and a cat, what do you think about that. The wind blows, the rain falls, the flag snaps its bravery in the dark as two dogs boil for attention at my feet. Of course it is a true story. You just couldn't make up something like that, no way.

April 16, 2018, 15:07	#13
LAFAL Curio & Relic Silver Contributor FALaholic #: 85 Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Pineville, LA Posts: 2,084	What PMF said- the ice trick works. Also, crack some eggs into the boil and let them poach. Then fish them out and snack on them whilst waiting for the crawdads to float. They really soak up some spice! I love living in central Louisiana- we're surrounded by crawfish/rice fields and get to eat them all season! __________________ -to AR is human. to FAL is divine!

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meltblown Registered Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 34604 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: SA Tx Posts: 12,414	My wife likes them...I think they're nasty __________________ Pain is inevitable, suffering is optional. Expect the worst, and you'll never be disappointed. Before trying to beat the odds, make sure you can survive the odds beating you.

April 16, 2018, 17:07	#15
Arby Curio & Relic Silver Contributor FALaholic #: 653 Join Date: Aug 2000 Posts: 4,855	I had some good (large!) boiled crawfish Saturday. Had a seafood salad yesterday with crawfish tails, shrimp and crabmeat. Life is GOOD!

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Bug Tussell ..... Silver Contributor FALaholic #: 2872 Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Bug Tussell Farm in New Mexico Posts: 5,540	Crawfish have been amazingly proliferate across the nation. I've seen them in the high mountain lakes in Arizona and in acequias near me in New Mexico. Don't know about the Rio Grande but I wouldn't know why not. Those little bugs are like blackberries - grow from coast to coast. __________________ Make your time

April 17, 2018, 08:44	#25
ExCdnSoldierInTx Old Fart Gold Contributor FALaholic #: 65552 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: South Central Merca Posts: 7,293	Bloody disgusting mess, that. Like eating swimming locusts. I'd rather eat 100 year old C-rats than that nasty crap. __________________ " .... basically you'd have to take them head-on, penetrating 4-6 'yotas per round, to avoid wasting ammo." - Enquiring Minds 11/15/15

April 17, 2018, 09:00	#27
Gravelface1 Registered FALaholic #: 76927 Join Date: Nov 2015 Location: Ponchatoula, Lousiana Posts: 140	$9lb?! Good grief. I just run out to Manchac and catch crabs on handlines and a couple crawfish nets and turn a good weekend great!!! When stationed at FT Hood, first time I saw boiled crawfish I didn’t recognize them.....something about dumping seasoning on the outside....blasphemy!!!!

April 17, 2018, 11:25	#28
Right Side Up Old Fart Silver Contributor FALaholic #: 43 Join Date: Jul 2000 Location: Texas Posts: 7,064	I love boiled crawfish, but they have to be hot. Hot enough to make my nose run and eyes water.

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alphadog58 Registered FALaholic #: 9405 Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: SE CT Posts: 3,380	I once trapped a whole bunch in a wire mesh minnow pot in the pond behind my house. Boiled them up with some blue crab seasoning. Not bad! We have the big bugs from Long Island Sound. Lots more meat in ‘em, don’t have to eat as many. Larry __________________ “He should be torn into itty bitty pieces and then buried alive!” Hanover Fiste in “Heavy Metal”

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Texgunner long-time Texas taxpayer Silver Contributor FALaholic #: 4653 Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Brokenoak in central Texas-Milam county Posts: 7,373	We went crawdad fishin' every time it rained in our neighborhood growing up. The bar ditches were full of their "chimneys". Usually we caught them one at a time, on a string lowered into the hole. We tied a bit of fresh bacon on the string. One day, in a flash of inspiration, I took a 3 foot square piece of window screen and tied bacon in the center. We lowered the screen into the ditch and pulled it up later with several crawfish stuck by their legs in the screen. Economy of scale! __________________ My daddy was a cowboy in his younger days, wild as the west Texas wind. He once told me, "Son, death is a horse you got to ride. So you better get your saddle ready." heavily armed, easily pissed.

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Mebsuta Khemi, Stygia Contributor FALaholic #: 4143 Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Khemi, Stygia Posts: 10,086	Would probably eat them in gumbo if it didn't have the claws in it and stuff, but just by themselves wouldn't unless I had to. __________________ Hai

April 17, 2018, 19:20	#37
embatp What? Me AR? Silver Contributor FALaholic #: 39856 Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Behind enemy lines... Posts: 4,166	As far as restaurants in Louisiana go there are some good ones, but expect them to be a little watered down....if you can eat at someone’s home all the better.... __________________ "only he is lost who gives himself up for lost"

April 17, 2018, 21:29	#42
ExCdnSoldierInTx Old Fart Gold Contributor FALaholic #: 65552 Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: South Central Merca Posts: 7,293	God gave us sharp front toofs. Because we're carnivores. We eat meat. As in carcasses. Not frikkin insects and grubs. Ick. __________________ " .... basically you'd have to take them head-on, penetrating 4-6 'yotas per round, to avoid wasting ammo." - Enquiring Minds 11/15/15

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12v71 Perched in the MP Silver Contributor FALaholic #: 71127 Join Date: Jun 2013 Location: I'l know when I get there. Posts: 7,095	Odd crawdad thing here in '09-10, locally our lake (Central Wa. state) was infested with huge crawdads (8 to 10 inches from tail to claw) they were some kind of hybrid that was dumped in the lake and took off like crazy. Fish and game wanted them gone, but wouldn't allow people the trap them because they weren't a native species? Anyways peeps I know were trapping them left and right on private property and well... they were... ahem... tasty like "rock lobster", they seemed to dwindle rapidly, so I kinda wonder if they were warm weather variety from down south that cant take the freeze here. __________________ "Can you lock him out of the marketplace?": My other half talking to Brunop in 2014. "Freedom is not a crime" I'm a heavy equipment mechanic because brain surgery was far too easy.

April 17, 2018, 23:24	#46
easttex Registered FALaholic #: 20438 Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Fort Worth, TX Posts: 3,186	The trick to crawfish is knowing how to peel them rapidly. I know people who've tried them, thrown up their hands, and quit long before they got through their first pound. I'm usually on pound six or seven by that point and going back for thirds. It's all in the technique. __________________ Chance favors the prepared mind. Molon labe

April 18, 2018, 06:34	#47
1769 Registered FALaholic #: 66611 Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Wells, Vermont, USA Posts: 962	I skip those, and just make a trip to the coast. Pick up some good Maine Lobster

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imacoonass01 Registered FALaholic #: 80275 Join Date: Nov 2017 Location: Vidor, TX Posts: 660	Wow! This thread brought all the falers out of the woodworks, that live around me here in SE Texas. Maybe we should have a meetup sometime. This does not exclude other falers...the more the merrier!

April 18, 2018, 08:53	#49
Texgunner long-time Texas taxpayer Silver Contributor FALaholic #: 4653 Join Date: Nov 2001 Location: Brokenoak in central Texas-Milam county Posts: 7,373	One of my crawfishing buds had three older sisters. Sometimes, the younger two of them would ask to go with us. No girls, especially sisters, were invited! Well, one Saturday morning while watching cartoons, I hear a knock on the door. There stands Joe's sisters, with a big-ass galvanized bucket. "Look what we caught!" I peered down into that bucket and saw the biggest damned crawdad I'd ever seen. That thing looked a foot long to me, and was red as a dick on a dog. The girls were grinning from ear to ear..."See? We don't need y'all to go crawfish' with us. We're doing better than y'all are!" Huh. Showed us, they did. Damn old girls. __________________ My daddy was a cowboy in his younger days, wild as the west Texas wind. He once told me, "Son, death is a horse you got to ride. So you better get your saddle ready." heavily armed, easily pissed.

April 18, 2018, 15:50	#50
John A Registered FALaholic #: 73828 Join Date: Apr 2014 Location: NOT california Posts: 930	I like them. Especially with a dash of garlic salt. Mmmm. Mmmm. Whoever was asking about how to catch them, there are a couple different store bought traps that can be had. Even a regular minnow trap will catch crawdads. Much easier if you can put a rock near the entrance/exit hole so they can climb into it easier.

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