Great job on your videos,helps keep the tradition of catching your own crawfish alive,as time goes on less and less people go out to crawfish.I am going out tomorrow morning I have some honey holes i haven't hit in years
Gotta say I loved this series of Mud Buggin! Must have been fun to have your daughter with you in that habitat. It;s a different world being so warm and seeing Gators etc. I had a blast when I took a fishing trip with my Father and Brother to Grand Isle in the mid 70's. Caught Redfish and Sea Trout along with tons of blue crab. Kudos to you my friend... Hope to see some more fishing. You have a must see channel I think!! Take care
Thanks Lumberman. I enjoyed making this series, all the new sights and animals and snakes was interesting. Next time I want to go do some fishing and crabbing down at Grand Isle. They no longer allow any crabbing at Elmers island, only surf fishing and Melissa said as a kid her and her Dad would be out there crabbing and you could camp on the beach and everything. They still allow it in Grand Isle State Park so I am looking forawrd to trying all that.
We camped on Grand Isle was a blast. In the tidal pools occasionally you could get a few shrimp.. was very cool. Crabbing was fun as well. We caught some in the brakesh water inland channels etc. One thing is northern white skin burns fast on Grand Isle LOL. Hope to see more vids ..good stuff
Thanks for taking us along with you on this through your camera.Looks beautiful down there.Still can't leave New York though,Too many Stripers and Salmon that need my hook.
from all youtube video u ones are the best .we going to miss u for 2015 .u should get your license and keep doing your fishing and your videos so we can enjoy watching .u take care remember u r the bestin uploading the best videos
I could have watched this in April 2014, because my relapse of the Strokes that I had happened in May 2014. Sadly, I didn't find you guys until June 2015! I hope to be out of Trinka Davis Veteran's Village, Carrollton, GA in late 2021... Semper Fidelis
great mudbuggin series, it always better enjoyment when you have your family with you when your having fun in the outdoors. still snow on the ground and rivers still flowing with ice up here, can't wait for it to warm up so I can get my traps in. take care and good luck trapping in Minnesota
yoopersurvival use coconut flesh as bait cut it like nuggets and burn it into fire to become brown or black it is more effective bait better than meat or other bait..i know sounds crazy but it works. i learn this from my grandmother when i was a child she though me on how to catch diffrent kind of species specially like that. it is easy to catch more of that if you trust my suggestion. and i am sure your day will be more happy so goodluck buddy..
I'm from Minnesota also and a friend of mine and myself are getting into crawfish trapping and watch your videos! We made the barrel style traps haven't had any luck yet here in SE Mn! Hope one day we could meet you!
Good series Joe! At least you learned what does and doesn't work this year and will know what to expect next time! Those bullheads are pretty good eating, but they don't really get to big so it takes a mess of them to be worth it. I bet it was weird leaving winter, enjoying 2 1/2 months of summer then jumping back to winter! Lol
Thanks Ryan, next year I am bringing down a boat, I think if I can get back in off the beaten path I will get good Crawfish numbers. I did get a fairly big bullhead in the one catfishing video and it tasted great. I wish they got that big here in Minnesota. The fact that it was 84 when I left and only 40 when I got here and then wqe got 18 inches of snow sucked pretty bad but 70s next week so things are looking up.
JoeandZachSurvival great video have you thought about trying some different bait and that looks like a great way to spend time with your daughter she seemed to enjoy herself and I like how you get her to enjoy the outdoors and look forward to watching more of your video's happy fishing to you and your daughter peace out
nice fishing,it's good to see everything grown in down there. up here things are starting to bloom a little bit, and some things are starting to have green leaves.
Hey Joe i love your videos i switched to your pillow trap design for prospecting for crayfish then use my nets. nets are so expensive i also found the pyramid traps work better for me I have been crawfishing a long time ,you have a good handle on what it takes to crawfish just remember traps left over night bring alligators will drag your traps away to i lose most of my nets great job
Just subscribed to your channel. Sorry about the bad crawfish catch, I live here and normally can catch a mess anytime. Hope you have better luck next year.
nice!! you have turned me onto this big time im in Michigan so waiting for the water to warm up and I am going to give this a try!! oh and I held the Michigan state record for yellow bullhead for 2 years when I was a kid!! lol still cool being able to say that lol
Nice job on the Bullhead. I hope you have good luck with the mudbugs, make sure you watch some of my MN mudbuggin videos, our water here would be more like yours is there. I trap Crayfish here in MN differently than I trap the Crawfish down in Louisiana as far as what type of water I place the traps in. Thank you. Joe
Wow you guys love your bugs, we have a similar craw fish in Australia and we call them yabbies. I think you need to check your traps more regular when bait is gone and you got no bugs their getting in and out. Good effort though at least your having a go. can you take a small gators I hear they eat well.
I am pretty sure it was turtles pulling that bait through, I had several that I caught in traps down there. Maybe a metal box like I have done here in MN in previous years Mudbuggin would help that also. I just heard that term "Yabbies" for the first time in one of the comments from a previous Louisisna video so now I add that to my tags. Thank you. Joe
Cheers, look up "Catching out back yabbies" on you tube. Still want to know abut those gators?. We have a few kinds of fresh water turtle, one called long neck, he can knock off your bait and your yabbies from outside the trap. Keep up the vids better than watching the box, and less adds.
First thank you for sharing your trip with us! Having Sara down there with you was the icing on the cake with a cherry on top! Tell Sara her selection of shirts for the trip was excellent! Joe are you going to use the beef melt bait there in Minnesota for mudbugging next month?
Thank you. I am not sure I can get beef melt up here but I am going to look. I still have venison liver in the freezer and other baits as well so I will be catching mudbugs for sure.
im from southeast Louisiana. ive ran traps and nets.try nets next time . get bout 4 dozen of them. set them bout 6 ft apart in a straight line in a road side ditch and constantly run them. once you run them all start back over and repeat. you will bag a sack alot quicker. sometimes in two runs.
When you have a big pile of crawfish on the table like that, how do you keep them warm for the entire meal? Seems like whenever I go to a seafood place and get crab, shrimp, or lobster, they get cold very quickly. Great Series. Thank you for making it. I look forward to your next adventure!
Down in Loisiana I have got to eat Crawfish with several people and from what I have seen they like them cold also. They never reheated them the next day, they would just eat them cold. I think they do not really care and just want to eat them lol. Thank you. Joe
Hi. I'm from finland, and i am in love with Louisiana. I think i found the bridge you walked under and the place where you catch those catfish with them orange floats from google maps. Ain't the bridge along the boyce tower road?
Thank you, I was worried I wouldnt be able to put a decent video together with all the clips but it turned out better than I thought. I appreciate you commenting. Joe
Im sure youre a big fan of the bait you use, but you should probably stick to bacon. The bacon shoots off plumes of greasy clouds that lure them in, its very resilient, and it smells like gold to crawdads. I would say hot dogs but it gets mushy and loses smell fast just like liver. Anyway just a piece of advice.
It wont be long now Denis, the weather is getting warmer. Its been a very cold spring, some lakes in Northern MN still have some ice on them. I may run out a couple traps this long weekend to see how things are moving. Thank you. Joe
BTW have you ever tried catching minnows and using them as bait for crayfish?,,, because I usually get the best results when something is fresh like minnows ,,, Denis
+artattacktattoo Up in Minnesota we have no poison snakes and no poison spiders so its just to keep your feet dry if you wear them. I am down in Louisiana now and down here you need to watch out for both. Thank you. Joe
There are roads all through that area off Airline when you go east out of LaPlace. Look on both sides of the road as you cross the spillway on Airline. I am not sure what the regulations are when off the WMA. I only Crawfished within them. Thank you. Joe
Thank you, I bought 30 inch long floats or poppers or whatever they were called and then added a 12 inch leader with a #3 hook and then put on either liver or beef melt and threw it over the bridge tied with string. That set up would be illegal here in MN unless you were sitting by the float at all times "tending" your line but it was legal and worked great down in Louisiana.
Thanks Karen. We saw lots of gators, mainly small ones, there was a 5 footer that was usually there at the bridge every day when I would check the catfish lines and then the baby ones we would see on that log quite often, always made me wonder where momma was LOL. Sara saw a real big one but it went under water before I got to see it. Plenty of them down there though.
I have crawfished many areas down in Louisiana I am actually here in Louisiana right now until monday. The only places I have trapped are within the Maurepas wildlife management area. Down here any ditch will catch you some mudbugs. Thank you. Joe
Nick, where in Louisiana? I've lived in Louisiana my whole life. Plenty of places to catch where ever you are. Can ask around at local fishing stored and places like that. Did that in Slidell for crabs on Lake Pontchartrain and caught the mess out of them.
Well up here in milwaukee wisconsin/ its still cold but crayfish are coming out set a trap out / even tho i watched ur videos on pillow traps and made like 5 and like 4 regualr ones on another video u made and on one circular trap i put meat in there and nothing for two days straight/ put some bread into there and got like tenish but i was wondering if the pillow traps with smaller meshes work up here for rustie crayfish?and my biggest crayfish i caught was a rustie and almost a foot long like i freaked ////i was fishing on wisconsin river and at night take a flash light by rocks and put a line down with meat on it and ull catch hundreds~
The pillow traps with the smaller mesh will work just fine. I do think my round ones work better but the pillow traps are suppose to be set upright with the two funnel side on the bottom so I can not really say which is better until I have the chance to get out in a boat and set them the way they are designed to be used. Just make sure that your Wisconsin laws are like the MN laws and you can use the smaller mesh. MN laws say 1/2 inch square mesh. Nice to hear that you are already catching some and that big one sounds like a beauty. Thank you. Joe
Also do u think muddy buttom rivers i could get them or not because i usally go fishing this river 45 min from my house(fox river) amd i go a few times a week and its deep like 10 feet in the middle but a few feet by shore amd theres always holes next to the shore that look like thier from crayfish ?
I like rocky bottome here in MN but in Louisiana its muddy bottoms so all you can do is throw the trap out and if they are there you will do good. try both shallow and deep water, you just never know where they may be. If the holes are from crayfish that is a good sign.
Kevin Vue Head to the river Kevin. Any river should have them near the cities. Just watch my videos to see how and where I place them in the river with the rocks and stuff and you will catch them. If you have any other questions you can message here or go to the Joe and Zach Survival Facebook page if you want a quicker answer. Thank you. Joe
Kevin Vue use coconut flesh as bait cut it like nuggets and burn it into fire to become brown or black it is more effective bait better than meat or other bait..i know sounds crazy but it works. i learn this from my grandmother when i was a child she though me on how to catch diffrent kind of species specially like that. it is easy to catch more of that if you trust my suggestion. and i am sure your day will be more happy so goodluck buddy..
JoeandZachSurvival use coconut flesh as bait cut it like nuggets and burn it into fire to become brown or black it is more effective bait better than meat or other bait..i know sounds crazy but it works. i learn this from my grandmother when i was a child she though me on how to catch diffrent kind of species specially like that. it is easy to catch more of that if you trust my suggestion. and i am sure your day will be more happy so goodluck buddy..
if u use the traps the are standing up instead of the pellow traps hey work a lot better when it flooded our camp last year we caught 500 stacks of crawfish and we could not get more then 28lb in one sack if u get a sack that is 30+ lbs it tends to be more medium to small crawfish just a tip
Thanks Chad, we had a fun time. We are back in MN now but I cant wait to get back down to Louisiana but next time its Melissas turn to come up here. She has been here twice and neither time was there leaves on the trees so I am hoping to prove to her that YES there is more that is green here besides pine trees LOL. Thanks again. Joe
Thanks for the message back. I can't wait to see ya back in the south. I'm fixing to go set some trotlines here at the shipyard, see what I can come up with before 6am
hi Joe, i would like to set some traps of my own but i was woundering what is the best bait to use to catch a motherload of crawfish please comment back
That sign is redundant...I don't get what its about....looks like it just restricts you (16-59) from entering unless you plan on hunting or fishing....ya can't even take a walk in the area! Love the Air boats and the size of those yellow dinner plates. Welcome back to winter!
Thanks Gman. The air boats were cool, they are loud as hell but always fun to watch. Possible 70 by Monday I think I saw on the news? I sure hope so. We had 18 inches of snow here at the house from that last storm.
Ive lived in Sorrento almost all my life and and we fish around the house just for fun and maybe a week we can get enough for the whole family, but if your really wanting to catch you really need to go to pierre part or the spillway. Its almost not worth fishing around here (not saying that it cant be done but not worth it compared to those other places
According to that sign, you and Sara were just fine. It stated that if you were there doing anything "other" than fishing or hunting that you needed to possess one of the following...... well, you were there to fish therefore you didn't need to do anything other than fish.
I thought about that too but Sara was not there to fish, she was just sight seeing because there was no reason to buy 150.00 in licenses for her to participate as a non resident for the week. We thought like you but then second guessed it. I talked to Wildlife and Fisheries several times when I was out trapping and of course once I had a true question about the sign I never saw them out there that week. I guess we were just being safe rather than maybe getting a fine. Thank you.
umvhu use coconut flesh as bait cut it like nuggets and burn it into fire to become brown or black it is more effective bait better than meat or other bait..i know sounds crazy but it works. i learn this from my grandmother when i was a child she though me on how to catch diffrent kind of species specially like that. it is easy to catch more of that if you trust my suggestion. and i am sure your day will be more happy so goodluck buddy..
I watched all your videos from Louisiana and I do the same thing as you do but don't bait with melt that's for like nets and stuff that doesn't take a long time to catch fish will work the best it takes a while to run out of sent and turtles will just destroy the melt.
I think the holes in your traps are too large. Even around 12:15 you can see on fall out of the bottom of the trap with all of your bait missing. I'm sure it strains out the smaller ones, but it's a lot more fun to throw back little ones than it is to not catch anything while still re-baiting every time.
Louisiana has a mesh size requirement that is bigger than what you see when I am trapping in Minnesota. I do have a video explaining this. Thank you. Joe
Thanks for the response! I'm new to your channel, and was surfing through crayfish trapping videos generally and came across this one. I'm curious if you've ever done under-ice trapping or had any success with it.
Actually not really. I have been doing this long enough and talked to enough others that do it and this may be true for you but not most people. Once they are in the trap they rarely can get out so checking every 3 house would be a waste of time unless your traps are filling that fast.
I'm not quite sure if i'm getting this right but the sign at 0:44 doesn't seem to make much sense at all... "All persons 16 - 59 entering a Wildlife Management Area for purposes OTHER THAN hunting or fishing must possess one of the following..." Which means, if I was entering a Wildlife Management Area for hunting or fishing purposes, i wouldn't need the stamp and/or licenses..?
In Louisiana if you are going into a management area, even if you are going in there just to ride 4 wheelers, camp, etc. and you don't fish or hunt you will need to get at least a permit. If you are going in to hunt or fish you are assumed to have a valid hunting or fishing license. If they check you, you better have the one you need. I am 64 so I don't need any of those things although I go ahead and buy a hunting/fishing license combo just to support our wildlife programs here in Louisiana. Just go to the nearest wildlife management office nearest you and they will be happy to explain everything. They really are there to help and are pretty friendly especially to out of staters. We love when you guys come down here to Louisiana. If you want to catch some crawfish try stopping at a farm and asking the locals there who to talk to and see if there are some place that they let people crawfish on their own. You might find that a farmer will let you fish in his ponds on 1/2 and 1/2 keep and you will be amazed at what you will catch in a good crawfish pond. Those nets would be full. good Luck!
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I found your channel way back when I was 16 and I'm still watching 7 years later! Love the content.
Hey Joe, I love all your videos and I think you do some great work with everything! Keep up the awesome work and keep the videos coming 👍👍
Great job on your videos,helps keep the tradition of catching your own crawfish alive,as time goes on less and less people go out to crawfish.I am going out tomorrow morning I have some honey holes i haven't hit in years
Gotta say I loved this series of Mud Buggin! Must have been fun to have your daughter with you in that habitat. It;s a different world being so warm and seeing Gators etc. I had a blast when I took a fishing trip with my Father and Brother to Grand Isle in the mid 70's. Caught Redfish and Sea Trout along with tons of blue crab. Kudos to you my friend... Hope to see some more fishing. You have a must see channel I think!! Take care
Thanks Lumberman. I enjoyed making this series, all the new sights and animals and snakes was interesting. Next time I want to go do some fishing and crabbing down at Grand Isle. They no longer allow any crabbing at Elmers island, only surf fishing and Melissa said as a kid her and her Dad would be out there crabbing and you could camp on the beach and everything. They still allow it in Grand Isle State Park so I am looking forawrd to trying all that.
We camped on Grand Isle was a blast. In the tidal pools occasionally you could get a few shrimp.. was very cool. Crabbing was fun as well. We caught some in the brakesh water inland channels etc. One thing is northern white skin burns fast on Grand Isle LOL.
Hope to see more vids ..good stuff
Thanks for taking us along with you on this through your camera.Looks beautiful down there.Still can't leave New York though,Too many Stripers and Salmon that need my hook.
Thanks NY, it was a great time. I am back in MN and awaiting the seasons to open up here now.
I had no idea New York had salmon!!! That’s so cool! I’m from Louisiana (south Louisiana particularly. South of Baton Rouge)
I really enjoyed this series ! So glad the weather finally got Louisiana-like and Sara got to see a gator.
Thanks Mouse, we had a great time. I cant wait till I get back down there next time.
from all youtube video u ones are the best .we going to miss u for 2015 .u should get your license and keep doing your fishing and your videos so we can enjoy watching .u take care remember u r the bestin uploading the best videos
I could have watched this in April 2014, because my relapse of the Strokes that I had happened in May 2014. Sadly, I didn't find you guys until June 2015! I hope to be out of Trinka Davis Veteran's Village, Carrollton, GA in late 2021... Semper Fidelis
great mudbuggin series, it always better enjoyment when you have your family with you when your having fun in the outdoors. still snow on the ground and rivers still flowing with ice up here, can't wait for it to warm up so I can get my traps in. take care and good luck trapping in Minnesota
Thanks Yooper, I am back in MN and awaiting the 2014 Mudbuggin MN season.
yoopersurvival use coconut flesh as bait cut it like nuggets and burn it into fire to become brown or black it is more effective bait better than meat or other bait..i know sounds crazy but it works. i learn this from my grandmother when i was a child she though me on how to catch diffrent kind of species specially like that. it is easy to catch more of that if you trust my suggestion. and i am sure your day will be more happy so goodluck buddy..
I'm from Minnesota also and a friend of mine and myself are getting into crawfish trapping and watch your videos! We made the barrel style traps haven't had any luck yet here in SE Mn! Hope one day we could meet you!
Good series Joe! At least you learned what does and doesn't work this year and will know what to expect next time! Those bullheads are pretty good eating, but they don't really get to big so it takes a mess of them to be worth it. I bet it was weird leaving winter, enjoying 2 1/2 months of summer then jumping back to winter! Lol
Thanks Ryan, next year I am bringing down a boat, I think if I can get back in off the beaten path I will get good Crawfish numbers. I did get a fairly big bullhead in the one catfishing video and it tasted great. I wish they got that big here in Minnesota. The fact that it was 84 when I left and only 40 when I got here and then wqe got 18 inches of snow sucked pretty bad but 70s next week so things are looking up.
I'm from Texas an can remember driving over it when I was a kid traveling to mississippi to visit family. cool video
im really into these type videos these days.thanks!you provided a great vid!
+Jorge Rivera Thank you, I have many videos on this subject. I hope you watch some more. Thanks again. Joe
JoeandZachSurvival great video have you thought about trying some different bait and that looks like a great way to spend time with your daughter she seemed to enjoy herself and I like how you get her to enjoy the outdoors and look forward to watching more of your video's happy fishing to you and your daughter peace out
Nice catch Joe 🐟👌
nice fishing,it's good to see everything grown in down there. up here things are starting to bloom a little bit, and some things are starting to have green leaves.
Here at the house in MN I am seeing some buds on the trees but nothing green yet but it will be here shortly. Thank you. Joe
Great show, I'm making some traps tonight. Boise river here we come!
Good luck. Please let me know how you do, I have yet to Crawfish that part of the country and would really enjoy hearing how you do. Thank you. Joe
Hey Joe i love your videos i switched to your pillow trap design for prospecting for crayfish
then use my nets. nets are so expensive i also found the pyramid traps work better for me I have been crawfishing a long time ,you have a good handle on what it takes to crawfish just remember traps left over night bring alligators will drag your traps away to i lose most of my nets great job
Loved the series, to bad it was not as good when Sarah was there. Can't wait for your next MudBugg'in adventures begin!
Thanks Goatman, the MN season will be here shortly.
Love your videos Joe keep them coming!!
Thanks Dean I appreciate you commenting. Joe
Just subscribed to your channel. Sorry about the bad crawfish catch, I live here and normally can catch a mess anytime. Hope you have better luck next year.
nice!! you have turned me onto this big time im in Michigan so waiting for the water to warm up and I am going to give this a try!! oh and I held the Michigan state record for yellow bullhead for 2 years when I was a kid!! lol still cool being able to say that lol
Nice job on the Bullhead. I hope you have good luck with the mudbugs, make sure you watch some of my MN mudbuggin videos, our water here would be more like yours is there. I trap Crayfish here in MN differently than I trap the Crawfish down in Louisiana as far as what type of water I place the traps in. Thank you. Joe
great series Joe keep it up.
Hi, thanks that was a blast to watch!
Hey 5th
i live 10 min from here. crawfish was excellent last year. hopefully its good this summer.
Enjoyed ur adventure very much !
Thanks Dave. I am looking forward to the Minnesota Mudbuggin in about a month.
great series I've really enjoyed it.Cheers
Thank you for commenting and watching. A month or so and the MN Mudbuggin will begin.
Whew! You and Sarah got that feast! xoj
I ate so many I felt sick but it was worth it. Thanks Jenny.
Very cool, thanks for the ride along.
Nice Video!! At 12:14 you did get one you can see it drop out of the bottom
Wow you guys love your bugs, we have a similar craw fish in Australia and we call them yabbies. I think you need to check your traps more regular when bait is gone and you got no bugs their getting in and out. Good effort though at least your having a go. can you take a small gators I hear they eat well.
I am pretty sure it was turtles pulling that bait through, I had several that I caught in traps down there. Maybe a metal box like I have done here in MN in previous years Mudbuggin would help that also. I just heard that term "Yabbies" for the first time in one of the comments from a previous Louisisna video so now I add that to my tags. Thank you. Joe
Cheers, look up "Catching out back yabbies" on you tube. Still want to know abut those gators?. We have a few kinds of fresh water turtle, one called long neck, he can knock off your bait and your yabbies from outside the trap. Keep up the vids better than watching the box, and less adds.
First thank you for sharing your trip with us! Having Sara down there with you was the icing on the cake with a cherry on top! Tell Sara her selection of shirts for the trip was excellent! Joe are you going to use the beef melt bait there in Minnesota for mudbugging next month?
Thank you. I am not sure I can get beef melt up here but I am going to look. I still have venison liver in the freezer and other baits as well so I will be catching mudbugs for sure.
Must see more crayfish vids!!! I can't get enough:0)
Onto trapping in Minnesota... I was gonna ask you if you had an idea of what rivers the rusty's infest in MN
im from southeast Louisiana. ive ran traps and nets.try nets next time . get bout 4 dozen of them. set them bout 6 ft apart in a straight line in a road side ditch and constantly run them. once you run them all start back over and repeat. you will bag a sack alot quicker. sometimes in two runs.
Nice videos really educational im learning myself got a few traps out
Chad Rivera Please let me know how you do. Its so fun to catch them and they are delicious. Thank you. Joe
JoeandZachSurvival
I'm use to seeing the big red ones crawling out of the ground early in the morning - by the dozens! everywhere ... eerie sight
Ive been doing crazy catching we use a big net to chase them in there r delicious
R waters r infested witg them that u can see n u can feel them hit u in the water.
that pond though...
its like any moment crocs would snatch you from that murky water after seeing that huge croc cruising ...
no crocks in louisiana dummy
When you have a big pile of crawfish on the table like that, how do you keep them warm for the entire meal? Seems like whenever I go to a seafood place and get crab, shrimp, or lobster, they get cold very quickly. Great Series. Thank you for making it. I look forward to your next adventure!
Down in Loisiana I have got to eat Crawfish with several people and from what I have seen they like them cold also. They never reheated them the next day, they would just eat them cold. I think they do not really care and just want to eat them lol. Thank you. Joe
JoeandZachSurvival good
We usually just eat them no matter the temperature and size
And the claw is the best part by the way
Really nice video.
Hi. I'm from finland, and i am in love with Louisiana. I think i found the bridge you walked under and the place where you catch those catfish with them orange floats from google maps. Ain't the bridge along the boyce tower road?
+FullSpektrum Yes it is. Thank you for the comment. Joe
just take down the sign and catch your fish .we love your videos keep it up ,i love to look at these types of videos before look at movies
What bridge is that you dropped them cat lines from?
How do you make the trot lines? and how do the fish hook themselves?
MAN! I was waiting for this video lol! great video Joe..
Thank you, I was worried I wouldnt be able to put a decent video together with all the clips but it turned out better than I thought. I appreciate you commenting. Joe
if you happen to read this comment may i suggest a mini pillow bait holder to make your nylon last longer?
Im sure youre a big fan of the bait you use, but you should probably stick to bacon. The bacon shoots off plumes of greasy clouds that lure them in, its very resilient, and it smells like gold to crawdads. I would say hot dogs but it gets mushy and loses smell fast just like liver. Anyway just a piece of advice.
Ive been wondering when is your next crayfishin video gonna be?----cause i cant wait to see it
It wont be long now Denis, the weather is getting warmer. Its been a very cold spring, some lakes in Northern MN still have some ice on them. I may run out a couple traps this long weekend to see how things are moving. Thank you. Joe
Loved the new video you posted of mudbuggin 2014 in mN ! ,denis btw do you have any bee hives?
I do not have any bee hives. I may want to try them someday but I dont have any now. Thank you. Joe
BTW have you ever tried catching minnows and using them as bait for crayfish?,,, because I usually get the best results when something is fresh like minnows ,,, Denis
Ya'll need some snake boots! I'd never find all those traps, lol.
+artattacktattoo Up in Minnesota we have no poison snakes and no poison spiders so its just to keep your feet dry if you wear them. I am down in Louisiana now and down here you need to watch out for both. Thank you. Joe
+Rakkasan it's not the same as our bayous and swamps tho
hope you dont mind me saying but your daughter is beautiful, looks like you two were having a goodtime
wyatt guttormsen Thank you. No matter if we are fishing or hunting or whatever, we always seem to have a fun time. Thanks again. Joe.
thats good, much better than sitting inside and being a couch potato
Good series Joe. When will you and Melissa be living together permanently?
Thanks Shawn, I am not sure. I love MN for most of the year but you cant beat Louisiana in the cold of winter. Time will tell.
I have a question how did you get into the bonnet carre spillway and also you can crawfish on public lands that aren't wma ?
There are roads all through that area off Airline when you go east out of LaPlace. Look on both sides of the road as you cross the spillway on Airline. I am not sure what the regulations are when off the WMA. I only Crawfished within them. Thank you. Joe
Thank you for your response I love your videos
Hi Joe! What was the catfishing rig that you used on the bridge would like to try that?
Thank you, I bought 30 inch long floats or poppers or whatever they were called and then added a 12 inch leader with a #3 hook and then put on either liver or beef melt and threw it over the bridge tied with string. That set up would be illegal here in MN unless you were sitting by the float at all times "tending" your line but it was legal and worked great down in Louisiana.
Does the tent lake have any catfish? I haven't seen you fishing for any up there.
No catfish in that lake or area of the state.
look for rock areas . use the mesh to make a bait trap inside so they cant eat it from the outside
Looks like you had an awesome time in Louisiana Joe! thought I saw a gator in one of the clips, did you run into many?
Thanks Karen. We saw lots of gators, mainly small ones, there was a 5 footer that was usually there at the bridge every day when I would check the catfish lines and then the baby ones we would see on that log quite often, always made me wonder where momma was LOL. Sara saw a real big one but it went under water before I got to see it. Plenty of them down there though.
JoeandZachSurvival you did good on the other instead and this one
I live in Australia and maybe come and do some crayfishing here? But in Australia we call them YABBIES!
Hey, man. I just moved to Louisiana and I want to take my son crawfishing. Where is the spot you fished located? Thanks and awesome video.
I have crawfished many areas down in Louisiana I am actually here in Louisiana right now until monday. The only places I have trapped are within the Maurepas wildlife management area. Down here any ditch will catch you some mudbugs. Thank you. Joe
Nick, where in Louisiana? I've lived in Louisiana my whole life. Plenty of places to catch where ever you are. Can ask around at local fishing stored and places like that. Did that in Slidell for crabs on Lake Pontchartrain and caught the mess out of them.
Well up here in milwaukee wisconsin/ its still cold but crayfish are coming out set a trap out / even tho i watched ur videos on pillow traps and made like 5 and like 4 regualr ones on another video u made and on one circular trap i put meat in there and nothing for two days straight/ put some bread into there and got like tenish but i was wondering if the pillow traps with smaller meshes work up here for rustie crayfish?and my biggest crayfish i caught was a rustie and almost a foot long like i freaked ////i was fishing on wisconsin river and at night take a flash light by rocks and put a line down with meat on it and ull catch hundreds~
The pillow traps with the smaller mesh will work just fine. I do think my round ones work better but the pillow traps are suppose to be set upright with the two funnel side on the bottom so I can not really say which is better until I have the chance to get out in a boat and set them the way they are designed to be used. Just make sure that your Wisconsin laws are like the MN laws and you can use the smaller mesh. MN laws say 1/2 inch square mesh. Nice to hear that you are already catching some and that big one sounds like a beauty. Thank you. Joe
Also do u think muddy buttom rivers i could get them or not because i usally go fishing this river 45 min from my house(fox river) amd i go a few times a week and its deep like 10 feet in the middle but a few feet by shore amd theres always holes next to the shore that look like thier from crayfish ?
I like rocky bottome here in MN but in Louisiana its muddy bottoms so all you can do is throw the trap out and if they are there you will do good. try both shallow and deep water, you just never know where they may be. If the holes are from crayfish that is a good sign.
Okay ill try!
Hey im up in iowa and was wondering are craw dads still out cause it reaches a low of 40 and a high of 70 most days will craw dads still be out
Hey man im the one you saw in the wildlife and fisheries are crawfishin.
If this is you why did you say your name was Jeff? Or did I get that wrong.
Where are good places to do crawfishing in MN or any places in the Twin Cities do you recommend? I just bought a trap and I want to test it out.
Kevin Vue Head to the river Kevin. Any river should have them near the cities. Just watch my videos to see how and where I place them in the river with the rocks and stuff and you will catch them. If you have any other questions you can message here or go to the Joe and Zach Survival Facebook page if you want a quicker answer. Thank you. Joe
Thank you so much!
Kevin Vue use coconut flesh as bait cut it like nuggets and burn it into fire to become brown or black it is more effective bait better than meat or other bait..i know sounds crazy but it works. i learn this from my grandmother when i was a child she though me on how to catch diffrent kind of species specially like that. it is easy to catch more of that if you trust my suggestion. and i am sure your day will be more happy so goodluck buddy..
JoeandZachSurvival use coconut flesh as bait cut it like nuggets and burn it into fire to become brown or black it is more effective bait better than meat or other bait..i know sounds crazy but it works. i learn this from my grandmother when i was a child she though me on how to catch diffrent kind of species specially like that. it is easy to catch more of that if you trust my suggestion. and i am sure your day will be more happy so goodluck buddy..
In Australia we call those critters yabbies...
Joe Hallam No matter what they are called, they are delicious. Thank you. Joe
Are they louisiana swamp crayfish ?
if u use the traps the are standing up instead of the pellow traps hey work a lot better when it flooded our camp last year we caught 500 stacks of crawfish and we could not get more then 28lb in one sack if u get a sack that is 30+ lbs it tends to be more medium to small crawfish just a tip
Nice that you got to take your daughter out with you in Louisiana.
Thanks Chad, we had a fun time. We are back in MN now but I cant wait to get back down to Louisiana but next time its Melissas turn to come up here. She has been here twice and neither time was there leaves on the trees so I am hoping to prove to her that YES there is more that is green here besides pine trees LOL. Thanks again. Joe
Thanks for the message back. I can't wait to see ya back in the south. I'm fixing to go set some trotlines here at the shipyard, see what I can come up with before 6am
hi Joe,
i would like to set some traps of my own but i was woundering what is the best bait to use to catch a motherload of crawfish please comment back
That sign is redundant...I don't get what its about....looks like it just restricts you (16-59) from entering unless you plan on hunting or fishing....ya can't even take a walk in the area!
Love the Air boats and the size of those yellow dinner plates.
Welcome back to winter!
Thanks Gman. The air boats were cool, they are loud as hell but always fun to watch. Possible 70 by Monday I think I saw on the news? I sure hope so. We had 18 inches of snow here at the house from that last storm.
Need to come to aus man and red clawing makes these little yabbies look tiny!
You should have fed the bullhead to the gator. Gator gotta eat lol
Ive lived in Sorrento almost all my life and and we fish around the house just for fun and maybe a week we can get enough for the whole family, but if your really wanting to catch you really need to go to pierre part or the spillway. Its almost not worth fishing around here (not saying that it cant be done but not worth it compared to those other places
According to that sign, you and Sara were just fine. It stated that if you were there doing anything "other" than fishing or hunting that you needed to possess one of the following...... well, you were there to fish therefore you didn't need to do anything other than fish.
I thought about that too but Sara was not there to fish, she was just sight seeing because there was no reason to buy 150.00 in licenses for her to participate as a non resident for the week. We thought like you but then second guessed it. I talked to Wildlife and Fisheries several times when I was out trapping and of course once I had a true question about the sign I never saw them out there that week. I guess we were just being safe rather than maybe getting a fine. Thank you.
Hmmm What do crayfish actually taste like?
DruidicRifleman they taste like crawfish
you need more bait they might be carawling out if nothing left to eat
We always called those mud cats...
Yeah man these things are of the chain
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try using a small tin of catfood for bait. just poke some holes in tip with a pointy knife and tie it in with the ring pull. Bet you get HEAPS more
Gr8 Video !
Come to Texas where it's 100 degrees during our summers
No thanks, that is why I live in Minnesota.
Hey! I would think for a guy from Minnesota that Louisiana is like a foreign country!
Just muddy and a lil deadly
Still water usually has low oxygen, so few animals, also the sent of the bait doesn't travel.
umvhu use coconut flesh as bait cut it like nuggets and burn it into fire to become brown or black it is more effective bait better than meat or other bait..i know sounds crazy but it works. i learn this from my grandmother when i was a child she though me on how to catch diffrent kind of species specially like that. it is easy to catch more of that if you trust my suggestion. and i am sure your day will be more happy so goodluck buddy..
Oie!!! the guy you saw is using your spot and taking your catch
do you worry about catching ticks while out setting traps
I watched all your videos from Louisiana and I do the same thing as you do but don't bait with melt that's for like nets and stuff that doesn't take a long time to catch fish will work the best it takes a while to run out of sent and turtles will just destroy the melt.
I catch a lot of my mud bugs on bacon can u try cause all mine are in a small ditch and I would like to see mud bugs caught in more water
Niceee catch also
What u do with them
Aden Toh Boil them and eat them or boil them and peel them and freeze the tails for later use in gumbo and other recipies. Thank you. Joe
I think the holes in your traps are too large. Even around 12:15 you can see on fall out of the bottom of the trap with all of your bait missing. I'm sure it strains out the smaller ones, but it's a lot more fun to throw back little ones than it is to not catch anything while still re-baiting every time.
Though, I suppose the size of the mesh could be a Louisiana regulation.
Louisiana has a mesh size requirement that is bigger than what you see when I am trapping in Minnesota. I do have a video explaining this. Thank you. Joe
Thanks for the response! I'm new to your channel, and was surfing through crayfish trapping videos generally and came across this one. I'm curious if you've ever done under-ice trapping or had any success with it.
Next time your in Louisiana try out middendorfs seafood
I love it
What is there to eat of craw-fish? It hardly has anything.
+tom kim the tail. just have to have alot of them.
The tail the brain and everything but the shell reskly
Some ppl eat the guts to but I think it's nasty I just suck the heads and eat the tail
sucking out the head of crawfish is where the guts are dumbass.
They move out of nets very fast so most people check them about every 3 hours.
Actually not really. I have been doing this long enough and talked to enough others that do it and this may be true for you but not most people. Once they are in the trap they rarely can get out so checking every 3 house would be a waste of time unless your traps are filling that fast.
You seem to do far better up in Minnesota than you do down there in LA.
Not a Yellow Cat. Bullhead. Not fit for eating. But they make GREAT bait for Yellows
I'm not quite sure if i'm getting this right but the sign at 0:44 doesn't seem to make much sense at all...
"All persons 16 - 59 entering a Wildlife Management Area for purposes OTHER THAN hunting or fishing must possess one of the following..."
Which means, if I was entering a Wildlife Management Area for hunting or fishing purposes, i wouldn't need the stamp and/or licenses..?
In Louisiana if you are going into a management area, even if you are going in there just to ride 4 wheelers, camp, etc. and you don't fish or hunt you will need to get at least a permit. If you are going in to hunt or fish you are assumed to have a valid hunting or fishing license. If they check you, you better have the one you need. I am 64 so I don't need any of those things although I go ahead and buy a hunting/fishing license combo just to support our wildlife programs here in Louisiana. Just go to the nearest wildlife management office nearest you and they will be happy to explain everything. They really are there to help and are pretty friendly especially to out of staters. We love when you guys come down here to Louisiana. If you want to catch some crawfish try stopping at a farm and asking the locals there who to talk to and see if there are some place that they let people crawfish on their own. You might find that a farmer will let you fish in his ponds on 1/2 and 1/2 keep and you will be amazed at what you will catch in a good crawfish pond. Those nets would be full. good Luck!
In MS if you are disabled and a resident you don’t have to purchase fishing or hunting license.
Hi there lm a fellow crawfisher looks like beefmelt not working try chicken neck or chicken back work s great
You caught just enough for a crawfish cocktail lol
Bacon is a very good bait for the crawfish
yes it worck great
A Yankee fishing here in Louisiana , crawfish likes vegetation not open water .
ppl like to steal from traps in some areas here but i dont think they stole from yours because theyll steal the whole thing
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