Pond Boss Forums MANAGING AN EXISTING POND Corrective stocking Mudbugs or Minnows?

You can find them out at any time, but yes they are more active at night.

Many, many years ago our scuba diving club would have an annual get together crawfish contest followed by a crawfish boil. It was always held at night in a lake because you would rarely see them in the day time. After dark in a shallow finger of the lake a dozen or more people would gather hundreds of them. The scuba divers got the larger ones in slightly deeper water and the kids snorkeled in shallow water. Spot them with a dive light, pick them up and put in a mesh bad, then later after determining "largest" and "most" for trophies dump them in a boiling pot of water with crab boil spice. Eat the tail meat and suck the head and eyes if you were of an inclination to do so.

We would have went hungry if doing it during the day.