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Lostinthewoods86 said:
One pan for my daughter and one for me. Wife and son are on their own tonight šŸ˜…
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I've never eaten one (we call 'em "crayfish" in upstate NY). I've found them interesting since I was a young lad.

We had a small freestone brook flowing through our yard in the Adirondacks when I was a little boy. I remember turning over a rock and seeing one for the first time. I ran to the house and grabbed the hot dog tongs out of the kitchen drawer. I caught it, and was amazed and confused at the same time... what was a baby lobster doing in the brook?!? How did it get there?!?

A few years later, I had learned what good bait they were for the smallmouth bass in the lake; they were crazy for them. And a few more years later, as I would snorkel through the rocky shallows turning over rocks to fill my bait bucket, I was amazed when a smallmouth bass would take a position under me as I moved through the shallows, darting in to grab the crayfish I exposed!

One of the local streams I fly fish for trout has a very healthy population of the biggest crayfish I've seen. Are any and all crayfish edible, or just the variety you have in Louisiana? If they are, with a little effort, I could probably collect enough of them to boil up and try a plate full...
 
desmobob said:
I've never eaten one (we call 'em "crayfish" in upstate NY). I've found them interesting since I was a young lad.

We had a small freestone brook flowing through our yard in the Adirondacks when I was a little boy. I remember turning over a rock and seeing one for the first time. I ran to the house and grabbed the hot dog tongs out of the kitchen drawer. I caught it, and was amazed and confused at the same time... what was a baby lobster doing in the brook?!? How did it get there?!?

A few years later, I had learned what good bait they were for the smallmouth bass in the lake; they were crazy for them. And a few more years later, as I would snorkel through the rocky shallows turning over rocks to fill my bait bucket, I was amazed when a smallmouth bass would take a position under me as I moved through the shallows, darting in to grab the crayfish I exposed!

One of the local streams I fly fish for trout has a very healthy population of the biggest crayfish I've seen. Are any and all crayfish edible, or just the variety you have in Louisiana? If they are, with a little effort, I could probably collect enough of them to boil up and try a plate full...
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As far as I know they are no different than anywhere else.

just to give you an idea, that was 10 pounds that my daughter and I shared. Itā€™s not worth the hassle for me to boil them myself for just us two. I just run up the road and get them already cooked.

Typically here if you want to pick them up live, they are sold in 30 pound sacks (some places will break them down into whatever you want)

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Then you need to rinse them a few times to get all the mud and such out. Then have your boil ready to go. for a large gathering where you would do a couple hundred pounds it would be worth the effort, but for just one meal for two itā€™s not worth the work to me šŸ˜‚
 
You can also find them in some stores either frozen tail meat, or frozen whole (boiled then frozen). But a lot of them are imported from China šŸ™„ dont recommend frozen whole ones, the frozen tails are fine (if they are from Louisiana not imported) for etoufee, jambalaya, etc.
 
Ritz413 said:
Doing my part....to be able to wage a counter attack against the dog...this war damn it!!
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The other day I made the dog get up and leave it was so bad. A little while later they took no chances. One little sound and they ran. šŸ˜šŸ¤Ŗ
 
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