Pond Girl- It all depends. For the most part your advisors are correct. However your advisors were lumping all crayfish into one behavior. It was like saying since pit bulls are vicious all dogs are vicious. However not all crayfish species are the burrowing types. For instance papershell crayfish (Orconectes immunis) do not typicaly make burrows out of water on pond banks. Papershells rarely even make burrows underwater unless the water level gets really low and the pond or stream almost dries up, then some burrowing will occur. I am pretty sure that the worst crayfish burrowing offenders are those that climb out of the pond and dig holes down into the walls or edges of the pond walls. A pond dam perforated with crayfish burrows whould not be good for integrety of the dam or the clay liner.
If you have a strong or normal LMB population you should have nary a crayfish. If you have lots of crayfish then in almost every case there are too few bass.
Last edited by Bill Cody; 09/08/07 08:17 PM.
