Trapping Big Signal Crayfish in the Pacific Northwest
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- Опубликовано: 31 авг 2018
- I head out on a late-season hunt to show you how I trap signal crayfish (Pacifastacus leniusculus) in a small river here in the Pacific Northwest. It was a lot of fun to make this video; I hope you enjoy it!
Update 19Jul19: A few folks have called me out on a laconic comment I made in this video about Chinese-made crayfish traps. I perhaps did a poor job of trying to make my point. Please know that I definitely wasn't trying to criticize all Chinese manufactures, and I absolutely do not espouse or condone any kind of prejudice against China as a country or its people (or anyone else, for that matter). I was simply trying to say that in my experience--and my experience only--with different crayfish traps, I have found those made in China to be of inferior quality. I am willing to spend more to buy the traps I use, especially knowing that in addition to the better quality, my purchase supports a small family business based here in the US. Again, I could have made this point far more eloquently in the video. My thanks to those of you who commented to draw my attention to this, and I'll do my best to be more clear when making future videos!
A few people have asked where I bought my Swedish-made traps. I ordered them from:
www.trapperarne.com
Please note that I am not affiliated in any way with this site, but I have purchased from them a few times and they were very good. They also have some great information about crayfishing on their site. For another source of traps, check out:
www.procrayster.com
These are high-quality traps made in the US. You can also check out their RUclips channel, Crayster, for lots of great content.
I hope that helps. Good luck!
Cool video. Looks like some great eating. We subscribed to your channel! Keep up the good work. (Mike)
Thanks Mike! It's a huge compliment to get a shoutout from Crayster! I've learned a lot from watching your videos. Thanks for your support.
You bet and keep up the great videos. Great to have you as a new friend! @@WesternEclectic
the ABSOLUTE BEST BAIT for crab, lobster, crayfish is PLAIN OLD HOTDOGS , thats right, i tried it in my crab traps and wholly Toledo did it work, i never use anything else any more.
CRABS ABSOLUTELY LOVE HOTDOGS HAHAHA, TRY IT YOU'LL SEE!!! :)
You can make a trap out of a coffee can.
@@AlexPThorn They love cheap cat food as well, I have used several different flavors of cat food in my crab traps and it seems to attract the crabs rather nicely. Also have used frozen tuna blood and the remains from when mom and I canned tuna, the blood and oil draws the crabs in. It may also draw in small blue sharks, have had some small ones about 2.5 to 3 feet in length in my traps. They are always a surprise. I have never tried the hotdogs though.
Years ago in the mid 70's I was trapping crawdads in the Sacramento river.
I had 3 bait shops and 3 Cajun Restaurants I would sell my catch to....
All of the little ones would go to the bait shops, while all of the big ones (and I got some almost the size of rock lobsters with tails 4'' x 1'' and big meaty claws) and those inbetween were dinner.....
I had 2 lines with 20 traps set 20 feet apart on anchor rope, and a short line with 10 traps set 10 feet apart on a rope for tight spots and I would check them every 2 or 3 days....
My traps were a bit bigger than yours and were home made out of 1/4'' fence wire....
Same design as yours but about 2 foot long by 10 inch diameter and I would fill up the 4 foot wash tub in my boat every day I went out.....
My customers loved me that summer but I had to give it up when I went off to college and even I got sick of FW Lobsters for every meal after a while but I had a freezer full of freshly cooked & peeled tails and claws that cut the food bill for my first semester of college.
Wow, very cool to read! Thanks for sharing this!
You could have skipped college and got rich starting a Bubba Gump crawfish store..
@@daveyboy8907
Thought about it until the summer ended and the bait shops stopped buying, even the restaurants slowed way down.
So college was good.
And the ARMY was better.....
Yo what part of the Sacramento River? I’ve heard the river delta before Benica bay is best. Please lemme know I’m definitely interested just trying to have a good time lol
@@jamessmith6363
I ran my traps up in the slues in the delta around Ielton and Sherman island and up to Sacramento in a 12 foot aluminum boat with a 6hp OB motor....
It's best to get up river above the salt water line that in 1975 was reaching Pittsburgh Antioch area....
That wash tub would just fit in the middle of the boat, gunnel to gunnel and about 2 inches lower than the top of the sides of the boat and I'd have it so full of dad's they'd be falling out and crawling around the bottom of the boat❗😜❗
I grew up eating crawdads before I ever knew what a lobster was, so when I say I got sick of eating them you gotta know I went through a lot of them....
And I was selling 50% to 70% of them to the bait shops and restaurants I had lined up.....
I only ate the ones I couldn't sell that were too big for bait and too small for the restaurant to take.....😜
Good luck James, I hope ya catch a bunch.
One thing though, I don't know about the fish & game laws out there now, so watch out for that.....
What we could get away with then, they'll probably throw you so deep in jail for these days....
They'd have to pump you sun light on a special order from the Governor.....😱😧😱
I also live in the PNW, the last time I went crayfish fishing the limit was 122 per person. Dad owned a sportings good store and he saved the styrofoam buckets that bobbers came in. We would take those and wade out into the river which was just a little deeper then knee deep where we went and pick them up off the bottom. When our buckets were full we took them back to the low water bridge and dump them into our big ice chest which we filled with water. When we were done we would sort them out by size and throw the smaller ones back.
After getting them home, cooked and cleaned we would pack them into half pound containers then freeze them. Some we kept out. My favorite was a crayfish, chanterelle mushrooms and mixed cheese omelet. Littering does spoil the fishing, I went back in there a couple of years ago and found a couple of car batteries dumped in the river, there was not a crawdad in sight, nor were there any fish. Managed to get the batteries out and hauled away, but have not been back since, hopefully the river has recovered there and down stream.
Hi Shelly, this is a great story about catching crayfish; thank you for posting it. Too bad about the trash (and no crayfish) when you returned, but I'm happy to hear you were able to get the trash out. Imagine how good our rivers and streams would look if everyone did that!
I have had chanterelles (mushroom hunting is one of my other favorite activities to do in our area and I've posted some videos on this too), but never thought of pairing them with crayfish. Sounds good! I'll have to give it a try sometime...
A crawdad, chanterelle, and cheese omelette sounds great tbh!
I build my own traps and use the chicken guts and neck left over from whole roasting chickens that come in a bag. The kind you might Beer Can or Rotisserie. I use them in small portioned ziplocked frozen portions. These go in the inside top hung bait cage. (no cans of food to buy or pack out later.) Any remainders I toss like you do. I return females and juveniles and only keep large males. My typical trap is about 3ft long and of similar design to your purchased ones, except home made with 1/2 inch galvanized wire mesh and ziptied together. Trap doors are identical and simply ziptied on to fit by cutting an opening and reattaching with the same ties. TO keep the trap door and suspended bait cages closed I use bread clips. Typical haul averages about 45-60 per trap per 48hr soak. Total cost per trap is about $2 finished. Bait is free, bread clips are free, and so are the Crayfish. No limit, no permit, no record, and only a suggested season right here in the NW. The best part is because they are fresh cool water animals, and not from the "Swamp" they are clean and sweet don't need purging like the Louisiana crayfish do. To cook I coil or steam in plain tap water, shock in ice water to chill. Peel and serve with fresh squeezed lemon juice and clarified melted butter for dipping.
Wow great ideas! Thank you for commenting!
Lovely video, and you've got a nice fishing spot too.
I live in Sweden and i love our crayfish (kräftor).
I really like to know how you cook yours.
Here is how we do it in the Swedish countryside:
1 kg Fresh, living crayfish
5 l Water
0,5 l Bavarian Lager or Porter
5 bits Raw cane sugar
Coarse salt
Dill flowers
Bring all ingredients but the crayfish to boil. Boil 5 minutes. Remove dill flowers.
Rinse the crayfish and put them, a couple at a time, in the boil. Add more dill flowers. Simmer 4 minutes, then rapidly cool.
Store at < 3 Celsius 2-3 days, then serve with bread, strong cheese, swedish Västerbotten Cheese-pie, swedish nubbe (snaps), aquavit and dark lager.
Wow, thank you for sharing your crayfish recipe! This sounds great and I am definitely going to try it. My understanding is that in Sweden crayfish are typically eaten cold with lots of dill (your recipe seems to verify this) whereas in the southern US crayfish are often eaten Cajun style: boiled with lots of spices and usually lemon, corn, potatoes, mushrooms, and andouille sausage and served hot. I have done it this way but have also made crayfish pie, crayfish etouffee, crayfish quiche, etc... Just making this list is making me hungry! I have had a few other requests for how to clean and cook crayfish, so I plan to make a video on this soon. Thanks again for watching and commenting. Skål!
@@WesternEclectic You're welcome!
Yes, we are kinda savage over here.
We typically eat them straight up with kinda simple side dishes, and often cold, as you said.
Sweden is an old country, and crayfish has moved between being concidered as trash food for smallfolk and hoboes, to feasts for kings.
This made the crayfish endangered by heavy fishing, and early regulations stated that we are only allowed to catch crayfish in august.
Thereby, catching crayfish has become one of swedens deepest, most beloved traditions, as a feast to celebrate the last days of summer.
We arrange big crayfish-parties, Kräftskivor, outdoors with lanterns, decorations, swedish snaps-songs and cheers.
We eat them straight up, sucking the juices from the claws, joints, bodies, eating the meat in claws, bodies, the "butter" and "caviar" in the females.
Typically we cook in august, and freeze in crayfish in the cooking liquid for store over the year.
Ah, now I got an urge or crayfish. Maybe I'll thaw a box of them.
@@Odqvist89 Cool! I now have a new goal to add to my life wish list: Attend a Kräftskivor party someday! Thanks for the information, and I hope you have some good crayfishing this August. I'll work on that crayfish cooking video I've been promising to make, so stay tuned.
You are welcome to visit. Jst stay away from the capital and the other big cities.
Swedes are a shy people, but get out to the countryside and have a few snaps and you will be most welcome and they'll be curious about you.
We love to have western visitors here and most of them appreciate our nature, most because of "Allemansrätten" which allows anyone by law to walk in all forests, pick berries, mushrooms and even camp one night at the same spot without allowance from the estate owner.
We are a small country, but I like to think we are a country of four seasons and with a variety of climates.
There are the lush green fields of Skåne, the salt thorn cliffs of Bohuslän with its small fishing villages, the vast archipelagos of Göteborg and Stockholm, the high coasts of the north, vast pineridden lowlands of norrland, the high mountain ranges and then Sarek, the crown of it all, highest up in the north, with its blushing colours of leaf.
I believe we got the most of americas variety here, just in a really scaled down size.
@@Odqvist89 That sounds amazing and I am determined to visit Sweden someday. Thank you for all the great information!
Never hurts to remind viewers of best practices - good to hear!
Thank you!
This video was GREAT! I live in Stanwood WA and I have never gone crayfishing and this helped me so much.
I wouldn't get in the habit of apologizing for comments like you made...
You for starters? Correct.
And secondly, you have freedom of speech last time I checked.
Loved the video!
Thanks for checking in and for your kind support. Yes, I'm a big fan of the first amendment. And the rest of the Bill of Rights too, come to think of it! 😁
Excellent presentation. Good info and entertaining.
Great Video,not too loud,No screaming or rotten music and very informative..👍👍two thumbs up!!
Thank you!
Thank you for the video ! Definitely on my bucket list .
Great haul. I agree with you 100% about leaving the area how you found it, too, clean up if someone else has left litter.
Good thing you actually caught em he would have signaled the others
This is awesome! I appriciate your conservation efforts. Cool video
Cool video. I also am from the northwest; about 40 miles south of canada. When I was young, we used to hand scoop them out of the lakes edge at night.
My boys and I loved your video! Great content, and it was exactly what we were looking for.
Hi Randy, thanks for the kind words and I'm glad you enjoyed it.
I got some trap the same as yours, and used tuna catfood. But I found I caught more crayfish when I removed the whole lid fixed the can to the bottom of the trap, the crays feeding frenzy seemed to release more scent and catch more. I was leaving my traps overnight. thank you for the videos.
I Live in PNW too and remember my dad taking us to Lake Washington where he would dive for crayfish. Yummy!
hey there, i'm looking to move out this lunatic nation now this gravel nudesom is the governor of cow manure state calif. i love the woodland and lot of places to do sport hunting and fishing. how much is the fishing license? my plan is to move to Bellingham or blaine. does it rain a lot? thanks for your reply. bob
Never had a crayfish, but they do look so good. Enjoyed your video and will keep watching
Thank you Lori! And crayfish most definitely are delicious; I hope you have the opportunity to try them sometime.
Cool, brother! A very satisfying, chill video, no politics, and smoking a kind spliff. ☝️💚
Please do more of these videos. Explain the season in so much as when to start and when it ends.
Thanks for your support for more videos! I am hoping to make more soon, so please stay tuned.
Where I live there isn't a specific "season" when it's legal to catch crayfish (technically you can catch them anytime during the year), but the best time tends to be later in the summer and early fall when the rivers are nice and low. In my experience crayfish aren't very active during the cold weather months when the water temperature is low. So what's the best way to determine if it's a good time to catch crayfish? Just head to the river and toss in a couple traps and see what happens!
i fish for signal crayfish here in great britain and i find the best time is april to october
I was on a fishing dock one time and dropped my crayfish trap in to see if I might catch anything while fishing. There was one other guy who showed up to fish, and within 20 minutes he was pulling my trap up. I was blown away, and gave him the evil eye when I let him know it was my trap. That was with me RIGHT THERE. I can't imagine leaving a trap out...
Always keep traps concealed. Good advice and video.
It's really frustrating that this happens. I think most people are decent and would never intentionally mess with someone else's traps, but it only takes one jerk to steal your trap(s) and ruin your day. I'm really glad you were to stop this guy and I hope he learned not to tamper with another person's gear. By the way, some people commented that it's pointless to use the camouflage line when the traps have those bright yellow funnels, but I disagree. I made another video and included a portion where I show that the camouflage line is still worth it; you can find it here: ruclips.net/video/m-KakY8XgQM/видео.html. Thanks for checking in!
yep, i know how you felt. the mexican family did that stole my trap . this family was eating lunch while i was setting my trap. i should have just taken it back with me. never trust anyone.
I've had this happen to me too! This kid pulled in my pot, and even picked up my rod and reeled in my line a bit. All while his dad was standing right there, not saying a word. Some people just grow up without learning any manners.
Great vid, keep at it! A lot of people like to see you enjoy what you catch as well as some tips and tricks on cooking. Hope my advice helps. God bless!
Thank you!
Great video! Thank you so much. Would love to see how you cook them. Your hard work is appreciated.
Hi Paul, thanks for your support! I made another video with some ideas about cooking and cleaning crayfish; you can find it here: ruclips.net/video/Rz5Ru2d6P9g/видео.html.
Love to hear/see more. I'm an Oregon transplant living in Baltimore md... keep it commin
Thank you for the encouragement! I've posted a few other videos since making this one; you can find them on my channel if you're interested.
Maryland boy now in Washington state. Looks like we are polar opposites
Having served them, it's interesting to see them captured wild instead of farmed.
Boy , now I’m hungry for a mess of mud bugs and an iced tea !
I went to the creek with a buddy and caught a bunch a few years ago. Caught em by hand. As soon as we had enough to have a good snack we left. They were So good
good work.. and I like those traps
Nice debut! Top notch sir.
Thank you! Much appreciated.
You sound and kind of act like my favorite character from Silicon Valley, Jared! I love it! Great vid man
I just pooped my pants LOL!
this was a nice video to watch. Thanks for posting it.
Awesome!! Blown away by this ⭐⭐⭐💯
Good video, no real slow spots and ends with some good conservationist tips. Well done and thank you.
Good video. I never thought to try catfood. I'll have to try this when I get back from deployment, I live up in Skagit Co.
Hey great video. As for more? Just know some of us live vicariously through these outdoor vids. so yes keep them coming, please.
Thank you for the kind encouragement! Will do. In fact, I have already made and posted a few more videos; it has been a lot of fun. Cheers!
It's interesting to note that traps through out all of history were carefully made by hand utilizing local materials at great personal effort and time.
Now we buy a plastic trap providing a long usable life and far less output to acquire and maintain.
That's true. In the old days things like crayfish traps had to be homemade, simply because that was the only option. Unfortunately, a lot of those skills and know-how that were required to make things like that on your own have disappeared. I know some folks still make their own traps, especially the "open" type that sit flat on the bottom of the stream or lake, and you just pull up when you see crayfish on the top. Hmm... I think you've just inspired me to look into making one!
GREAT VIDEO 👏💯😳 KEEP UP THE GREAT WORK 🙏🌟🔥 💞
Excellent Video
I watched the whole length of it, which is a big deal - my attention span is shot thanks to youtube.
Love from London
Haha, RUclips has ruined my (admittedly already short) attention span too. Thank you for the compliment and thanks for watching!
Whoaaaa! Beautiful. Thanks for the video!
Looks good Thanks for your time in making this video
This pretty cool brotha! Loved the video.
A few comments. I bring a net with me. Notice how on your first trap you had a big male on the outside? I always get a few hanging on the outside. I scoop them with the net and increase my keep per net. Second, I also wipe a little bait (Cat food would work. Or the juice) on the line, and I have a few crayfish hanging on the line as I pull it in. They don't all go in the trap, so this adds more. The net again is used to scoop them up. (I get about 150 in 2 - 3 hours of working the lake I go to. Pretty heavily populated lake. That's just the keepers. I don't count the little guys. About 4 inches is my minimum size, up to 6 inches for the big ones)
Great suggestions! Thank you for the tips.
Loved the video and definitely want to get some of those crates. Would like to see the cooking process 😊
Thanks for watching and commenting! I made another video describing some ideas for cooking cryafish; you can find it here: ruclips.net/video/Rz5Ru2d6P9g/видео.html.
This was my Vancouver childhood summed up in a video. We used old school aquarium nets and just lifted rocks to catch them manually
Cool!
Nice video brother keep it up bro
Can't say I've ever counted individual crawfish when trapping . We just count them by the pound in Louisiana.
Good work.
Were did you get your traps?
We have a daily limit on the number of them here, so I always end up counting them to be sure I'm not over. I've learned that with live crayfish it's awfully hard to count them when they're all together in the bucket, so I try to count them as I'm emptying each trap and keep a running total in my head. If I'm getting close to a limit I'll throw back some of the females and smaller males and focus on keeping the males with big claws. At any rate, thanks for watching and commenting--it's cool to hear from someone in the crayfish capital of the world! I put a link to where I bought my traps in the description.
Western Eclectic here in California we have no limits on craw dads
New to the channel. I liked how you caught all those crayfish. I love anything to do with the outdoors in the summer time.
I will be watching more,😀 thank you.
Nice video. We live in OR and love the signal crawfish. I've had lots of other species and they are at the top of the list for taste and size. At least once (sometimes twice) a year the kids and I will go get a bucket full out of the river by the house and do a big boil with the family. Always nice to throw a couple nice Dungie sections in the pot right at the end too for a nice NW touch!! Keep up the nice work.
Cool! A boil like that is definitely a great family event. Thanks for checking in!
You should do a video on how you cook them!
Done! 😊 You can find it here: ruclips.net/video/Rz5Ru2d6P9g/видео.html
Just in case you're interested there's also another one on catching crayfish here: ruclips.net/video/-vIyhHhBpH0/видео.html
Great stuff, yep made in Sweden i use them too
Awesome video. Thanks for the link to the traps
Yes very good for your first vid , interesting covered all the important points , Go for it what have you got to lose.
We buy them by the 50 lbs sack in Louisiana . Its a secondary crop in the rice fields
Awesome.
We have the red swamp crawdads here also
How much do they cost??
@@ricky4mel depending on the harvest, they usually go for $1 - $2/pound. Pretty cheap most years.
@огромная эрекция different from what?
Looks like it is time for a good Louisiana Crawfish Boil!!!!! Eat them all!!!
I really enjoyed the video. You did just great.
Thank you!
Good concise video, with some good info. Thanks.
Thanks for watching!
dude dont apologize about thinking chinese manufacturing is sub par... it's only truth
Love the video I actually lerned some new stuff. Thank you for taking your time to make and post this video id love to see more.
Thanks Dakota! Making videos has been a lot of fun and I plan to post more soon, so stay tuned.
@@WesternEclectic no problem, and for sure dude. I'd love to learn more from you.
First video? Great job! Very professional.
Thanks!
I heard mackerel or herring fish do quite well
Hi Henry, thanks for checking in. I've never used these fish, but I've also heard they make for good crayfish bait. I'll have to try it sometime!
This made my day thanks
Yummy I'll cook it deep fry style
Love it. Would love to see more on harvesting wild food
Thank you for the positive feedback! I appreciate the suggestion and yes, I hope to make new videos soon about wild food so please stay tuned.
Awesome video. Please continue to make, and upload videos. Thanks!
Thank you!
Am hungry now.
@Tony Gonzalez Thank you very much.
I swear, My farm cat caught the biggest crawdad I ever saw. It looked like a small lobster. That Lil cat dragged it a quarter mile to show me.
That's a great cat!
that's cute, the cat brought it to you!
He was the smaller of two litter mates, a buff colored tabby named "Zanzibar" .. He was the color of chocolate milk. He dove into that creek and came back an icicle . He was not fazed by a little cold water. He is in my, Cat Hall of Fame, with his brother "Sleepy Linus"
Dude thats hella cool you SUPER feed/give back to nature thats 😎
Yum this makes me hungry for Crawfish 😊😊 great video
When I was a kid we used bacon on a string weighted with a rock to catch them out of creeks. My dad and I used to make between $1500.00 and $3000.00 each day running 150 homemade net traps here in Louisiana when large creeks flooded the surrounding woods in the Winter. We used three foot long hoop nets similar to catfish nets but with a smaller mesh size baited with pieces of carp or buffalo fish. Crawfish were only about 75 cents a pound wholesale then.
Wow that's amazing! At $0.75/lb it must have been a pretty impressive haul to get $1500-$3000... Cool!
@@WesternEclectic We`d run the nets, bait them back up, go sell what we caught to a fish market and return and run them again. One guy we knew paid cash for a new car after about 10 days of crawfishing. The conditions and time of year had to be just right and it usually only lasted until the water fell after 5 to 7 days...but when it rained hard again it was time to do it again. Good money! A lot of crawfish would fit inside the nets we used.
Chicken necks are much better than cat food. Lafayette Louisiana checking in.
Cool. And if you're from Lafayette I have a feeling you know what you're talking about! Thanks!
How many chicken necks you got lying around?
@@I_am_a_cat_ you can buy them at the supermarket. It may not be something you would normally buy but they do sell them.
If you can't find chicken necks try fish heads..
@@johnmeshawn4402 I caught some using the scraps of perch I caught earlier that day. Heads, bodies (pretty much anything that I didn't fillet off! Had one pot filled almost full of them munching on it!
Well presented video Thourally enjoyed it
Congrats and keep up the good work - if you feel like it!
Hey man I live in Sweden and the traps you use looks to be from a company called trappy ps great video
HÄLSINGEFISKE I think it is Smålandsmjärden.
Andreas Simonsson that’s possible
🇦🇽🇦🇽🇦🇽👍😉
TRAPP ARNS is the company online name. i bought two XL since they ran out the small trap. you get your money worth in time enjoying all those cajun crusty creatures. it is originated from Sweden, i think, identical to this one on this site.
I THOUGHT YOU MADE YOURSELF PRETTY CLEAR IN WANTING QUALITY OVER CHINESE JUNK. IF SOMEONE WAS OFFENDED IT IS BECAUSE THEY WONTED TO BE OFFENDED AND IN THAT CASE YOU DID NOT OWE THEM ANY FARTHER EXPLANATION ON THE MATTER. THEY SOUND LIKE TROLLS TO ME.
You can't even spell wanted, your Trump supporting dip s&'t
@@greglucero8714
The irony is thick.
@@greglucero8714 "you're" a fuckin moron! "Your" grammar needs work before you go bashing other's of their grammatical errors.
FAIR RIDER Hey man, are you DEAF in addition of being STUPID? Why the YELLING?!
@@houstonsells1484
GRAMMAR QUEEN and yes I am YELLING.
Great video! After watching it I’m going to give it a try. It looks like a lot of fun.
I subscribed!
Thanks Lisa! Catching crayfish is definitely a lot of fun. Good luck!
Really cool to see. Here locally (southwest Virginia), I typically catch about anywhere from forty to sixty crayfish. Good eating---- quick boil, then pieces placed in baking dish with butter and garlic powder, black pepper. Yum! Broil for about 5 minutes at 450 degrees. New subscriber.
Hey Sabrina, thanks for checking in and for subscribing. I haven't heard of the boil/broil method of preparing crayfish; I'll have to give it a try!
0:35 he said the good thing is that it wasn’t made in China 😂😂😂
Thats right!
I'm 64 years old, served in the United States Air Force, toe to toe with the Soviets and the Chi-coms at the Anchorage, Alaska's Elmendorf Air Force Base. Strategic Air Command. Today's idiots will have you think that the communist threat was just a bunch of propaganda to reinforce the "Military Industrial Complex."
(And I mean idiots in the "Useful Idiot" category that the Communists place them) We were aware then, as well as now, that the Communist leaders knew that they could not defeat us militarily - and - openly - claimed - that they would defeat us economically. Well, here we are, 80% of US Imports come from China. Manufacturing and supplying our own needs are a joke and practically non-existent in this country. Administration after Administration has cozied up to the Chinese Communist regime on the belief that trade and cooperation would lead to an end of the threat. Well, here we are, China is the number one threat to the United States and Nations surrounding them. They are doubling down on Military expansion on most of their borders. Improved relations with China, the goal since President Nixon visited China, started us down a less aggressive path when dealing with China.., and here we are. The Soviet Union no longer exists in name, but the Russians back our enemies in every conflict. We all know that they actively try to influence our elections, but most people don't even realize that they do this most effectively through our Schools and Universities. Our Government, Corporations, and Institutes of Learning at every level, are infiltrated (infected) and influenced by the Communist / Marxist / Maoist ideology. !-In the name of "Free Speech and Freedom of Association-!" Good parents are spending ridiculous sums of money to have their children indoctrinated with this ideology and then watch these useful idiots try to tear down the United States and censor any Free Speech, attacking any Free Assembly of people with an opposing view. And! The stupidity of the general population of the United States is that the Chinese and Soviets openly stated from the beginning that this is what they would do and how they would do it. A Billy Jack move; "I'm going to take this right foot and whop you on that side of your face..., (and points to his right cheek) And you wanna know somethin'? There's not a damn thing you're gonna be able to do about it." Most of my generation saw the movie. And then, stood there and took it to the face, just like the corrupt Sheriff in the Billy Jack movie... If only there was a red pill that would awaken people to reality, but unfortunately, it only exists in the movies....
Try banana skin .. it's smell is exactly the same as a female crayfish pheromone , you will double your catch .
Wow... Really?
I plan to give this idea a try this season and post a video about it. It will seem a bit odd adding banana skin to the trap, but I'm just too dang curious not to try it! We'll see... Thanks for the suggestion.
True! It's all I use. I was born and raised in Longview, Wa. and went crawdad'n deep in the woods. Always put bananas in the cooking pot. All you get is big fighting males too. Claws big enough it makes'm worth eating. We'd use a pie tin and wrap chicken wire around it twice and a rock to send it to the bottom. As a kid with my big brother and his .22, I've eaten everything that crawls around on four legs up in those woods. Fished every river and stream and even raided honey bees. There's a ton of food in the woods of the Northwest year round, you just gotta know where to look.
Great video! It took me back, can you tell?
so banana skin isnt only useful human traps?
@@bradleejones9959 Glad you enjoyed it and it's nice to hear from someone who has spent so much time outdoors in the Pacific Northwest. I agree there is a lot of food in the woods in our area (mushroom hunting is another favorite activity of mine), although I'm not sure I'd ever be brave enough to go after a beehive!
Thank you. Great video!
Please make more vids thus was awesome. Very cool man.
Thank you! I had lots of requests for information about how I cook and clean crayfish, so I made another video about this, "The Crayfish Flowchart: Options for Cooking and Cleaning Crayfish." Thanks again for watching and commenting.
I live in the PNW. Is this location in Western WA? I agree with you, products made in China are low quality in general. People shouldnt take offense to that because it is the truth! I guess the truth hurts!
Thanks for watching and for your comment. I'm actually in western OR, but as I understand it there are a lot of good crayfish streams in western WA too.
@@WesternEclectic I haven't seen what kind of Chinese-made shrimp cage you use. If it is of that kind of net, I am sorry. Every place may be different. The Chinese are used to catch small river prawns, not crayfish. The wrong object was used. Chinese crayfish are raised artificially in ponds.
When they escape & hide in closet for a week they become pretty easy to find.🤢
Eww.
Nice job on the video and I have an old crayfish trap I got from my daughter's late Grandpa been thinking about setting it in one of our creeks in the Napa valley
Cool! Good luck if you decide to give it a try!
Great video! When is the 'season' for crayfish and what rivers/creeks can you reccomend?
Are they in some waters but not others? I'm really looking forward to getting into trapping some! Thanks!👍
Hi P B, thanks for watching and checking in. Here in my area (the Pacific Northwest), in my opinion the best time to catch crayfish is mid to late summer (when the weather is hot and water levels are low) until the rains start in the fall. Crayfish can be found in all sorts of habitats, from muddy lakes and ponds to fast-flowing clear streams. For me, I prefer clear streams and the best locations seem to be deep pools with a lot of good structure (like big rocks) on the bottom for crayfish to hide in. Just do a little research and ask around (local fisherman are often a good source of information on this). Be sure to check your state's regulations too. Good luck and have fun!
Thats cheating! We just catch em with our hands. way more fun. Come on man!
Hey, I caught crayfish with my hands too from a pond at a family friends place when I was in my late teens and then later cooked and ate them, only the larger ones my family chose to bring home to eat, but one time I found and caught a big dark-colored female with eggs when I was younger exploring a brook near my home, but I had to put her back due to that she must of been climbing her way upstream looking for a safe place for her young.
No you don't
i also made two traps. they worked just fine. you taught me how to set the cat food and really did the trick. i think i saw the brother of this mexican family. i said what i have to say: God will curse whoever stole my property. as soon as they heard, said to them, they made a beeline run to their car.
Fantastic video. Well done
Very cool. Thanks for the video. Well done.
Thank you!
Great video, love the tips you shared . How did you prep them before cooking? Did you have to purge them for a few days? How did you prepare your for eating. I discovered a great area for the signal crayfish a few months ago, I brought a few home for a breeding project. Seeing your luck with catching them in descent quantity makes me want to go back and try to catch with traps. How do they compare to your standard Red swamp crayfish? Thanks for sharing
Hi Gary, thanks for your comments. I never bother to purge crayfish. Purging clears out their digestive tract, but when I clean them I remove this anyway so it doesn't matter. I show this in another video I've made; you can find it here: ruclips.net/video/Rz5Ru2d6P9g/видео.html. I think signal crayfish are similar to red swamp crayfish, but signal crayfish (males, anyway) tend to have bigger claws, which is great because that's more crayfish meat to enjoy.
Thank you for sharing this video. Pretty cool. Where did you buy the traps? What's the brand name?
Hi Marco, I've had a few people ask about this so I've added a link in the description to where I bought my traps. I am no sure of the actual brand name, but mine are the "Trappy" model, made in Sweden. Thanks for watching!
Cool video, thanks for posting. I discovered a good crayfish population in a local river just wading through with my dog. I caught some by hand and released them but I saw another guy leaving there with a crayfish trap once. I'm going to check out the local regulations and try my hand at trapping them.
That sounds great--good luck!
Your 350th sub! Remember me please! Loved the video and your personality is just so engaging.
Thank you for the kind words and for subscribing. I just made this video for the fun of it and had no idea it would generate this much interest. Glad you liked it!
excellent presentation dude really interesting video
Awesome! I live by the Lewis river in Cougar, WA. I just tried overnight and only caught 6. How long do you leave your trap in there for?
Great to hear you got out. On a good day a trap would only need to be left out for a couple hours to have a lot of crayfish. But this is very dependent on the time of year! For example, about a month ago I tried a pond where I've previously caught tons of crayfish and got... None! (You can see the details in my most recent post under the "community" tab.) There's nothing wrong with the location, it was just too early in the season and the crayfish weren't active yet. So, I suspect if you're already catching some at your spot this early, it'll be much better later in the summer and early fall. I've had a lot of folks ask about this issue, so I'm hoping to do a new video on it soon... Stay tuned!
I am going to be possibly camping out for this pandemic. Might need to forage. What rivers in the Snohomish/King areas would have crawdads? What guide should I use?
I'm really not familiar with that area so I'm afraid I can't offer much advice on where to go. Having said that, most waterways in the Pacific Northwest contain crayfish, so your odds of finding some are good. Good luck and happy foraging!
I enjoyed your video and have only enjoyed a good crayfish meal twice. Once in Arkansas and the other being in Louisiana. Both Crayfish were harvested in Louisiana but the boys that brought them to AR. also brought Shrimp and Boudin sausage. I ate WAY too much that night..!
Great video. I heard u saying it was late in the season for them... what are the best months of the year to give these guys a shot??? Many thanks.
Thanks for watching! In my experience late summer and early fall (when the water is low and the rains have yet to start) is best.
Great video mate. Nice work!
Thank you for the positive feedback. Cheers!
AWESOME VIDEO 👍👌👏 ! HOW do you prepare them before cooking? Salt water soaking? To clean out the mud vane?
Good question. Some people do a "purge" by soaking the crayfish in saltwater first, but I just cook them and remove the mud vane when I clean them so it's not an issue. I will try to do a future video on cooking, cleaning, and some of my favorite recipes. The RUclips channel Crayster has some good information on this too. Thank you for watching!
Love it. My son and I seined a bunch of small craws and did a boil. Way too much work.
These traps would sort the little ones and leave the big ones. Thanks for a great video
They are a lot of work even when they're bigger (I have a friend who says their size makes them the equivalent of eating sunflower seeds) but that's a part of what makes it so much fun. And you're absolutely right about the traps: They automatically filter out the small ones for you.