Funny thing about crawdads here. I have many crawdads in the outdide base of my dam where I have some seepage. I can always dig in the mud & find them but I never see any in the pond itself. I do believe the LMB are eating them all up.Many times I have caught a few & released them into the pond & never see any of them again.I was always under the impression that they liked rocky areas to hide out in & not all clay bottom. My pond is all clay bottom. I think they just dig in the mud to hibernate in the winter. I have been adding limestone rocks to the edges of my pond in various sizes to see if that will help them reproduce & survive in the pond itself. I also added about a ton of brick scrap under my dock last fall & put about a dozen of them in there.

Dan B