Being from the south when I think of crawlfish, Minnesota is one of the last places to come to mind for mudbugging. I always thought it was just too cold there for them, I was very wrong!!! Brother I truly enjoy your videos!!! I recently had a battle with cancer and after each radiation treatment I was told to go home and relax. Watching your videos are fun to watch and very relaxing. I told many of your videos. 4 others doing radiation with me watch you now. Happy to say I am 8 months cancer free and I want to say Thank You Sir!!! You made it easier for a few of us.
I have been watching your channels religiously for the past 3 months. My husband is always saying " Oh, you're watching your guy again." I first watched a video you posted about 5 years ago on canning potatoes. Joe, you have really motivated me to start getting things done! In the last few weeks you have inspired me to re-paint the interior of my home, build new fun projects, go hiking, fix up my own camper, purchase some crawdad's from Louisiana (I live in SW FL), and much more. Stay busy my friend. It really is helpful!
Thank you Amanda, what a great comment. I always say you cannot get anything done sitting on the couch. Lol. Usually when I sit on a couch I fall asleep. You really cannot beat the pre boiled crawfish from Louisiana as long as they are not too spicy hot. Thank you again for the nice comment. Energy makes energy, keep it moving. Joe
Yay crawfish!! Love watching you make a crawfish boil Joe. Also the High-Lo camper is turning out great just like the bigger one you did. Can't wait to see what adventures you and Melissa will go on once it's all done. Happy weekend!!
Yes it back. Mudbuggin. Great video joe that's was a lot of crawfish you got their and also nice video of the pigeons under the bring lol. Keep up the good work
just realized I live 3.5 hours west of you almost exactly. throwing my nets in tomorrow for a cookout hopefully tuesday. keep up the mudbuggin videos. big fan
I got skunked. Sunday I am planning another spot. The spot I picked this week was one of convenience. Was worried about my traps getting stolen in the more touristy good spot
Going to be some good eating mate. We have large Crays this time of year in the winter, like small lobster, in the summer we have Yabbies which are the same as your crays in this video. Spiny Crays are spiky ancient looking things. looking forward to the cook up. Yum. Cheers Moose. 👍
Another super video Joe.I have never eaten one of those, so I hope in your next video you can describe the taste and texture etc. Thanks again for putting out real Life videos.
I absolutely cannot get enough crayfish; such delicious little guys. We used to go to the Crayfish Festival near Houston; what a high time we had. Enjoy your crayfish or crawdads as my grandpa called them.
Bad Medicine lake by Itasca state park. It's where the old Hamm's beer commercial's withe the bear water skiing were shotin the late 60's early 70's. Huge massive amounts of crayfish off the dock's all day and night long We had water boiling and ate them in crazy amounts. Our 3 traps fed 4 of us and a few camping neighbor's. Yummy. Oh, lot's of diver's you can see down 20ft. plus easy. Great trout deep in the day and awesome walleye at night if super silent using a light to shine their eye's then quietly move over or by them. We found 4lb. was max line or fish seen it. Been going there for year's is beautiful. The mcmansion people have wrecked part's of the lake. Great catch by the way,
Great video. We rebait the traps with fresh bait every day here down south. "Crawfish", like crabs prefer fresh bait. Its a common misconception that they prefer rotten or old bait. Try some fresh bait every day and watch your catch increase. The oilier the baitfish the better.
I look forward to every one of your videos - another great one here. You have a cool life. Helluva haul too. Well done. By the way tell your Southern Sweet Lips that those are CRAYfish.......not CRAAAAAWWWfish. Ha ha. Just like a damn Yankee to be tellin' them how to talk isn't it? Great video and a lot of fun to watch them. Thank you Joe.
Howdy mr Joe, love your videos. I'm a Michigan guy living in San Diego so watching your vids takes me back home. Thanks so much for the piece of home. When ya gonna get yer little lady up to the tent?
Thank u for all the videos Joe. U have taught me a lot in each one of them. U would think the content would maybe be too teoeatitive but it's not At All. I really enjoy seeing u go about ur hobbies and they inspire me, and surely others. Keep up the good job, it's fun to watch. What made u start ur channel?
Thank you Erika. Zach bugged and bugged me to start a youtube channel. I really wanted nothing to do with it at first but he was young and I am Dad and somehow we started it. Once the whole many years long demise of my 26 year marriage started I found that when I was making the videos I could actually "lose" myself in it and for that short period of time I could forget how everything else around me was crashing. I guess I put my energy into the videos and now years later here I am. Zach is the youngest so the divorce hit him very hard also so it was a good way for us to spend not pressure time together. Its funny that I met Melissa because she commented on one of my Mudbuggin videos. She commented that they are not Crayfish, they are Crawfish........ Wow how life changes,....... look at us now.
i was pretty amazed when i got transfered to louisians. crawfish are everywhere but the people there eat them like shrimp. we always used them as fish bait but it's common to watch someone get a batch out of the culvert in front of their house. i never ate 1 but bass love them.
Im down in South West Louisiana. We crawfish with the four triangle wire leg, with cotton netting when i was a kid. We'd haul in a wash tub or two in half a day. I bought me some on line, but can't remember the trick to keeping net open. I'm looking to make some pocket trap, I see you've switched from the pockets to the cylinder style. Any reason why?
I’m really inspired to try this next time I go out kayaking. Just throw out a few traps and see what I can get. Could you recommend a good place around Litchfield, MN to place traps?
Hi Joe, always enjoy your videos. I think I missed something? I notice your back to using your old truck all the time again? I'm thinking of getting a 2007 f350 and I really liked the one you have. But your using your old 150? What's up with the 350? And would you recommend getting the 2007 or go with models after that?
Hey joe, I know where you are and live a few mins away. Mind if I try those spots next year and is it busy there? Any issues with people messing with traps?
Hey Joe, I see you spraying what I assume is some type of DEET repellant on your jeans/socks/shoes. Have you ever used Permethrin on your clothes? Rather than just being a repellant, it kills insects and arachnids (ticks) on contact. The rule I follow is DEET on skin, Permethrin on clothes. Dampen clothes with permethrin solution on clothesline, let dry before wearing. It's good for about 5-6 wash cycles. Since I started doing that, I rarely find ticks on me. Very effective.
I was thinking about setting some crayfish traps this last spring. But I read in the DNR fishing regulations that traps can only be tended to one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise. Have you read this? What a bunch of bull. Just figured maybe I read it wrong. But read and reread this. Is there something I missed
Nice video. Catching mudbugs off and on my whole life I may have something of interest for you. If your going to accumulate a good amount of bugs, might I suggest a 30 or 55 gal plastic barrel with a cheap aerator pump. Fill it with water and put at least a cup to two cups of dissolved salt in and let it run a day or so to purge them. I assure you they will taste better as they will dump any mud and silt from their system. Just food for thought.
Sunny W The aerator is a good idea. Joe does use salt to purge them. If you watch his other crawfish boil videos, he always uses salt to purge them out.
@@albertledesma5173 thank goodness. As I wouldn't eat anything out of the river . Especially the rum. Fish smell just FOUL coming from there. Not like normal fish do. Sick like.
Hey Joe I live in the Twin Cities and I'm interested in trapping crayfish too (otherwise I can only get them at the Chinese buffets which are pretty meh). How would you recommend I go about looking for places to set traps? I figure rocky shores are good, but I don't know how much I should worry about water quality and etc.
I never worry about water quality, if I did I would not trap them in Louisiana. Rocky bottom, water that is moving works best for me but you want the trap in the current where its calmer. If the water pulls your trap down stream its too fast, you may catch a couple but you will do better in the calmer areas. In Louisiana you have to be in non moving water to catch them, I could not catch any in the moving bayous. The Wildlife and fisheries guy told be that they never trap them in moving water. If possible am going to do some lake mudbuggin this year and that water will be non moving. It should be interesting but I know some well infested lakes I want to try.
I always do even though everybody jumps down my throat about how it is not needed and it hurts them. In my boil video I will post in a couple days I did do the salt water purge but did not video that step.
What river? I live in Minneapolis near the Mississippi and Minnehaha creek. I'm trying to find a good spot for crayfishing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Just watch the videos, I am filming a new Mudbugging video right now, I should have that uploaded early next week. Find the areas in the creek or river where the water is moving slow enough so it does not pull your trap along with it. Put some chicken liver or something like that in the trap and see what happens. Shallow water in the rivers with rocky bottom.
Yes I do, in fact I have it in the shop this week continuing the "bullet proofing" She is getting new studs and head gaskets installed. I cant wait to get it back because its getting hot up here now and my work trucks air conditioning stopped working. Lol.
Nice video. Like others, I am curious as to what river this is. I used to live in orygun and we caught crawfish all the time and used them as bait for catching trout.
No difference in taste or texture or size. I get smaller ones here simply because our legal trap mesh size here in Minnesota is smaller than the legal mesh size in Louisiana. The smaller ones down there get away. Depending on what time of the season it is I get some really big ones here as well as in Louisiana. One thing that is different is that the Rusty crayfish I catch here in Minnesota (by the house like this video, not when I am "crayfishing The North" by the tent which is a different species) has much bigger claws than the "Swamp Crawfish" species I catch in Louisiana. Other than that the body size, the taste and everything is the same. Good question, Thank you.
JoeandZachSurvival, seems the carapace color is a little darker in your neck of the woods, I am used to seeing more red and green speckles. Could have been a lighting or camera issue, but all your crawdads looked very dark olive...
I have learned boil from Cajuns over much time spent in Louisiana...enough teaching to duplicate a decent crawfish boil here in Ohio. I think You should put your seasoning in the pot at the end with the crawfish, boil the bugs less than 5 minutes, and have a longer soak/cool down for the bugs to draw in the seasoning...have seen ice thrown in at the end to get them to draw in more spice. My method: 4Tbsp. salt for each 3 quarts of water when using the bag seasoning, boil redskins for 25-30 minutes. add corn and lemons 20 minutes in. I like heat so use Louisiana brand, Zatarains, or McCormick, and Zatarains Liquid oil. if using powdered blends no salt needed. Spice and crawfish in at the same time. if the spice gets put in at the beginning, the flavor gets boiled off. Boil crawfish 2 minutes and shut off the heat, then soak 30 minutes. I always have plenty of flavor in my bugs with the long soak. If You're not pinching and sucking guts, You are wasting the best part of the bugs :-)
Being from the south when I think of crawlfish, Minnesota is one of the last places to come to mind for mudbugging. I always thought it was just too cold there for them, I was very wrong!!! Brother I truly enjoy your videos!!! I recently had a battle with cancer and after each radiation treatment I was told to go home and relax. Watching your videos are fun to watch and very relaxing. I told many of your videos. 4 others doing radiation with me watch you now. Happy to say I am 8 months cancer free and I want to say Thank You Sir!!! You made it easier for a few of us.
I have been watching your channels religiously for the past 3 months. My husband is always saying " Oh, you're watching your guy again." I first watched a video you posted about 5 years ago on canning potatoes. Joe, you have really motivated me to start getting things done! In the last few weeks you have inspired me to re-paint the interior of my home, build new fun projects, go hiking, fix up my own camper, purchase some crawdad's from Louisiana (I live in SW FL), and much more. Stay busy my friend. It really is helpful!
Thank you Amanda, what a great comment. I always say you cannot get anything done sitting on the couch. Lol. Usually when I sit on a couch I fall asleep. You really cannot beat the pre boiled crawfish from Louisiana as long as they are not too spicy hot. Thank you again for the nice comment. Energy makes energy, keep it moving. Joe
we don't even have em here but I still love watching you go thru the motions and setting your gear. love to the family
Yay crawfish!! Love watching you make a crawfish boil Joe. Also the High-Lo camper is turning out great just like the bigger one you did. Can't wait to see what adventures you and Melissa will go on once it's all done. Happy weekend!!
Love these videos. Watch em all the time
Holy mudbugs! Excellent start to the season Joe! Can't wait for more!
Havent watched the episode yet...cant wait, gonna get some popcorn for this one!
Nice catch! Enjoy all your videos! Thanks for sharing
Not a bad way to start off the season!!! Great catch Joe!!! Tyfs God bless
I have noticed that Minnesota looks almost the same as my country, Finland. Have a nice summer,Joe!
Minnesota countryside is beautiful, as with Finland! Greetings from Minnesota!
I'd imagine it's pretty much the same climate. You may be on the colder side
Hey Joe, another great video. Always enjoy watching from here in Scotland.
Def.
Yes it back. Mudbuggin. Great video joe that's was a lot of crawfish you got their and also nice video of the pigeons under the bring lol. Keep up the good work
just realized I live 3.5 hours west of you almost exactly. throwing my nets in tomorrow for
a cookout hopefully tuesday. keep up the mudbuggin videos. big fan
Let me know how you do.
I got skunked. Sunday I am planning another spot. The spot I picked this week was one of convenience. Was worried about my traps getting stolen in the more touristy good spot
Going to be some good eating mate. We have large Crays this time of year in the winter, like small lobster, in the summer we have Yabbies which are the same as your crays in this video. Spiny Crays are spiky ancient looking things. looking forward to the cook up. Yum. Cheers Moose. 👍
I just love your videos Joe! I want to do this!! Looks fun!
Finally! Great to watch a Mudbuggin' video again! Look forward to watching the boil. 😊
Another super video Joe.I have never eaten one of those, so I hope in your next video you can describe the taste and texture etc. Thanks again for putting out real Life videos.
They're micro lobsters.
I absolutely cannot get enough crayfish; such delicious little guys. We used to go to the Crayfish Festival near Houston; what a high time we had. Enjoy your crayfish or crawdads as my grandpa called them.
They are YUMMY. I agree.
Bad Medicine lake by Itasca state park. It's where the old Hamm's beer commercial's withe the bear water skiing were shotin the late 60's early 70's. Huge massive amounts of crayfish off the dock's all day and night long We had water boiling and ate them in crazy amounts. Our 3 traps fed 4 of us and a few camping neighbor's. Yummy. Oh, lot's of diver's you can see down 20ft. plus easy. Great trout deep in the day and awesome walleye at night if super silent using a light to shine their eye's then quietly move over or by them. We found 4lb. was max line or fish seen it. Been going there for year's is beautiful. The mcmansion people have wrecked part's of the lake. Great catch by the way,
You're my hero I haven't done that since the 70s mid-70s
not a bad three day catch.keep up the great video's
Great haul! This cooler weather has been great for the little buggers! Please send those mosquito and tick control boys over to wisconsin!
Great video and great catch Joe!
Cheers from Utah.
Well happy for you makes up for the other place when they nicked your traps best off luck keep up the good videos
Great video. We rebait the traps with fresh bait every day here down south. "Crawfish", like crabs prefer fresh bait. Its a common misconception that they prefer rotten or old bait. Try some fresh bait every day and watch your catch increase. The oilier the baitfish the better.
Great catch Joe, some of them looked huge too.
Another great video! Glad to see mudbugging video's. atb, Bart
MrSharp interesting
Ta for sharing mate.there is nothing like a weekend yabbying. Ha!
Great catch Joe! Thank you for sharing!
Great video Joe!
nice haul Joe! stay safe!
That was sure a lot of crayfish joe!
Nice start to the season keep it up!
I look forward to every one of your videos - another great one here. You have a cool life. Helluva haul too. Well done. By the way tell your Southern Sweet Lips that those are CRAYfish.......not CRAAAAAWWWfish. Ha ha. Just like a damn Yankee to be tellin' them how to talk isn't it? Great video and a lot of fun to watch them. Thank you Joe.
Love your videos man keep it up
GREAT TIMES GREAT CHANNEL GOD BLESS
I really enjoyed watching this video please make more :)
Howdy mr Joe, love your videos. I'm a Michigan guy living in San Diego so watching your vids takes me back home. Thanks so much for the piece of home. When ya gonna get yer little lady up to the tent?
This is as good as Deadliest Catch.
Thank u for all the videos Joe.
U have taught me a lot in each one of them. U would think the content would maybe be too teoeatitive but it's not At All. I really enjoy seeing u go about ur hobbies and they inspire me, and surely others.
Keep up the good job, it's fun to watch.
What made u start ur channel?
Thank you Erika. Zach bugged and bugged me to start a youtube channel. I really wanted nothing to do with it at first but he was young and I am Dad and somehow we started it. Once the whole many years long demise of my 26 year marriage started I found that when I was making the videos I could actually "lose" myself in it and for that short period of time I could forget how everything else around me was crashing. I guess I put my energy into the videos and now years later here I am. Zach is the youngest so the divorce hit him very hard also so it was a good way for us to spend not pressure time together. Its funny that I met Melissa because she commented on one of my Mudbuggin videos. She commented that they are not Crayfish, they are Crawfish........ Wow how life changes,....... look at us now.
nice haul joe. bon appetite.
Hello from germany i Lover your Videos and your Country!
Great Mudbuggin and thanks for the video,dont forget the sausage when you boil.
Great catch!!
Lmk if you find my bobber stuck in the tree.. lost it this February.. trying to fish on frozen rum..
cant wait too see the boil video!
Nice haul of crayfish.
Good catch! Is that the Mississippi River?
J&Z have the right Idea. Out in the Sticks, heaven!
i was pretty amazed when i got transfered to louisians. crawfish are everywhere but the people there eat them like shrimp. we always used them as fish bait but it's common to watch someone get a batch out of the culvert in front of their house. i never ate 1 but bass love them.
While I prefer Shrimp, I enjoy watching your posts
Hey I was wondering if you knew of any good lakes and streams around the Hutchinson area. Or just any suggestions would be nice
Your truck sounds hella good
Awesome..thanks for the lesson....
Im down in South West Louisiana. We crawfish with the four triangle wire leg, with cotton netting when i was a kid. We'd haul in a wash tub or two in half a day. I bought me some on line, but can't remember the trick to keeping net open. I'm looking to make some pocket trap, I see you've switched from the pockets to the cylinder style. Any reason why?
Very nice! Good eats for sure!
Mr. Joe, I have found that dry dog food works well for cray fishing, the cheaper the food the better the results. Just might double your yield.
just through mine in today can"t wait to see what i get tomorrow morning .
WHAT A SCORE -- Oh how I wish .
You're lucky to be able to have a place where you can leave your traps. I've gone so far as the bury my line. And they still keep stealing my traps.
Good catch joe!!
Damn that looks like fun, and some good eating.
This HAS to be the rum river with that many craw daddies around.
You seem to be out a little later this year. Were you just waiting for it to warm up some?
Nice haul!
I’m really inspired to try this next time I go out kayaking. Just throw out a few traps and see what I can get. Could you recommend a good place around Litchfield, MN to place traps?
What all have you tried for bait? Do you let the fish guts sit outside for a day to make them smell more?
Hi Joe, always enjoy your videos. I think I missed something? I notice your back to using your old truck all the time again? I'm thinking of getting a 2007 f350 and I really liked the one you have. But your using your old 150? What's up with the 350? And would you recommend getting the 2007 or go with models after that?
Hey joe, I know where you are and live a few mins away. Mind if I try those spots next year and is it busy there? Any issues with people messing with traps?
Hey Joe, I see you spraying what I assume is some type of DEET repellant on your jeans/socks/shoes. Have you ever used Permethrin on your clothes? Rather than just being a repellant, it kills insects and arachnids (ticks) on contact. The rule I follow is DEET on skin, Permethrin on clothes. Dampen clothes with permethrin solution on clothesline, let dry before wearing. It's good for about 5-6 wash cycles. Since I started doing that, I rarely find ticks on me. Very effective.
Nice Catch!!!!
I was thinking about setting some crayfish traps this last spring. But I read in the DNR fishing regulations that traps can only be tended to one hour after sunset and one hour before sunrise. Have you read this? What a bunch of bull. Just figured maybe I read it wrong. But read and reread this. Is there something I missed
"tended" is the key word. You can not go check them at night, you have to do it between the hours you mentioned.
where in minnesota ?
Hey! Do you have any suggestions on where to put pots in in midwest mn? Arounf belle-plain/waconia?
Nice video. Catching mudbugs off and on my whole life I may have something of interest for you.
If your going to accumulate a good amount of bugs, might I suggest a 30 or 55 gal plastic barrel with a cheap
aerator pump. Fill it with water and put at least a cup to two cups of dissolved salt in and let it run a day or so to purge them.
I assure you they will taste better as they will dump any mud and silt from their system. Just food for thought.
Sunny W The aerator is a good idea. Joe does use salt to purge them. If you watch his other crawfish boil videos, he always uses salt to purge them out.
@@albertledesma5173 thank goodness. As I wouldn't eat anything out of the river . Especially the rum. Fish smell just FOUL coming from there. Not like normal fish do. Sick like.
Are you on the Rum River under the bridge on 22?
Where in Minnesota?
Is this in Oak Grove on the Rum? lol I fish here all the time
Hey Joe I live in the Twin Cities and I'm interested in trapping crayfish too (otherwise I can only get them at the Chinese buffets which are pretty meh). How would you recommend I go about looking for places to set traps? I figure rocky shores are good, but I don't know how much I should worry about water quality and etc.
I never worry about water quality, if I did I would not trap them in Louisiana. Rocky bottom, water that is moving works best for me but you want the trap in the current where its calmer. If the water pulls your trap down stream its too fast, you may catch a couple but you will do better in the calmer areas. In Louisiana you have to be in non moving water to catch them, I could not catch any in the moving bayous. The Wildlife and fisheries guy told be that they never trap them in moving water. If possible am going to do some lake mudbuggin this year and that water will be non moving. It should be interesting but I know some well infested lakes I want to try.
Haha fair enough, I'm a hydraulic engineer and I work with a bunch of biologists so I'm probably overly concerned about this kinda thing.
Is there any reason I couldn't catch them in southern Minnesota in a small channel?
hey joe are you ut on mississsppi.. i live just off the st croix river close to taylors falls. would like to chat more one on one if possible
Is that the snake river, rum river, what part of MN? what permits are needed to park along the road?
As long as there aren't any signs saying otherwise, you can park along the road without any problems.
What river were you on.
did you purge them with salt water before you boiled them??
I always do even though everybody jumps down my throat about how it is not needed and it hurts them. In my boil video I will post in a couple days I did do the salt water purge but did not video that step.
we have blue claw in our dam, they are like crayfish ,in australi
Do you have any good spots to set crawfish traps around Minneapolis?
What river? I live in Minneapolis near the Mississippi and Minnehaha creek. I'm trying to find a good spot for crayfishing. Any advice would be greatly appreciated!
Just watch the videos, I am filming a new Mudbugging video right now, I should have that uploaded early next week. Find the areas in the creek or river where the water is moving slow enough so it does not pull your trap along with it. Put some chicken liver or something like that in the trap and see what happens. Shallow water in the rivers with rocky bottom.
What do you use as bait??
Awesome!! Do you still have the other truck?
Yes I do, in fact I have it in the shop this week continuing the "bullet proofing" She is getting new studs and head gaskets installed. I cant wait to get it back because its getting hot up here now and my work trucks air conditioning stopped working. Lol.
finally! a good harvest...
Set the Chops in th river
Badseta
Nice video. Like others, I am curious as to what river this is. I used to live in orygun and we caught crawfish all the time and used them as bait for catching trout.
The Rum River.
Bacon. Down here in Houston we have been using bacon since the 1960's for crawfish and crab traps.
Do you find much difference in the Minnesota Crawfish compared too Lousiana Crawfish? Taste? Texture? Size?
No difference in taste or texture or size. I get smaller ones here simply because our legal trap mesh size here in Minnesota is smaller than the legal mesh size in Louisiana. The smaller ones down there get away. Depending on what time of the season it is I get some really big ones here as well as in Louisiana. One thing that is different is that the Rusty crayfish I catch here in Minnesota (by the house like this video, not when I am "crayfishing The North" by the tent which is a different species) has much bigger claws than the "Swamp Crawfish" species I catch in Louisiana. Other than that the body size, the taste and everything is the same. Good question, Thank you.
JoeandZachSurvival, seems the carapace color is a little darker in your neck of the woods, I am used to seeing more red and green speckles. Could have been a lighting or camera issue, but all your crawdads looked very dark olive...
@@JoeandZachSurvival tell me the rum river ones don't smell worse. I know they do. Ish man. Lol
Yea! More mudbuggin'
Great vid
Is this under the 7 bridge? I fish there as well! Didn't know there were crawdads down there though!
Definitely on the Rum though..
JUST KIDDING! I figured out where it is tehehe. I won't post it to protect your spot :)
I have learned boil from Cajuns over much time spent in Louisiana...enough teaching to duplicate a decent crawfish boil here in Ohio. I think You should put your seasoning in the pot at the end with the crawfish, boil the bugs less than 5 minutes, and have a longer soak/cool down for the bugs to draw in the seasoning...have seen ice thrown in at the end to get them to draw in more spice. My method: 4Tbsp. salt for each 3 quarts of water when using the bag seasoning, boil redskins for 25-30 minutes. add corn and lemons 20 minutes in. I like heat so use Louisiana brand, Zatarains, or McCormick, and Zatarains Liquid oil. if using powdered blends no salt needed. Spice and crawfish in at the same time. if the spice gets put in at the beginning, the flavor gets boiled off. Boil crawfish 2 minutes and shut off the heat, then soak 30 minutes. I always have plenty of flavor in my bugs with the long soak. If You're not pinching and sucking guts, You are wasting the best part of the bugs :-)
Anyone know some good spots in southern IL.near marion??
Good catch
What part of mn is this?