I would not mind having a defensive crayfish in my pond at all. My bass wont be large enough to eat adult crayfish until next year, so I'm hoping the 500 I stocked in my 1/4 will be able to establish a good footing by that time.
Be sure to let us know how it turns out. I'm going to try and capture some local ones and put them in my new forage pond to see if I can produce some for my main pond. Don't now if A. I can catch enough to do any good and B. the FHM's that I just put in the pond to reproduce will leave the crayfish alone enough to ever allow the young to make it.
I've lined about half of the forage pond with 2-3" limestone rock so the tiny ones should have some cover.
Gives me something interesting to try out anyway and if the crayfish fail, I still have the FHM's
