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Crawdads #47718 05/04/04 01:09 PM
Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 2 Fort Worth Texas B bwlawler OP Junior Member
OP bwlawler Junior Member B Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 2 Fort Worth Texas	I took two small side by side dried up ponds and built one decent pond last July in the Fort Worth Texas area, well the rains came and I now have a large crop of Crawdads that seem to be growing. What can I do since I do not plan on stocking with bass.

Re: Crawdads #47719 05/04/04 03:34 PM
Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 55 la F fish Member
fish Member F Joined: Apr 2004 Posts: 55 la	not much you can do,i guess you could sale them.i can tell you this much,if you think you have alot of them now wait 6 months then you will find out what alot of crawfish look like.each one carry's about 75,000 eggs under it's tail.

Re: Crawdads #47720 05/04/04 04:44 PM
Joined: May 2003 Posts: 336 Kremlin, OK S Svoberts Lunker
Svoberts Lunker S Joined: May 2003 Posts: 336 Kremlin, OK	There were some people on here not too long ago wondering where they could get some. You might do a search and see if you couldn't "unload" some. Shawn

Re: Crawdads #47721 05/05/04 05:25 AM
Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 1,892 Hurst & Bowie Texas D Dave Davidson Lunker
Dave Davidson Lunker D Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 1,892 Hurst & Bowie Texas	I'd like to have some. I sent you an E-mail.

Re: Crawdads #47722 05/05/04 08:38 AM
Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 199 louisiana L lee Member
lee Member L Joined: Feb 2003 Posts: 199 louisiana	bwlawler, this is going to be hard too due without bass are some other crawfish eating fish.these guys x like bunny's.i'm not sure if you drainned the pond all the way down you could get them completely out.if you did drain pond it would have to stay dry a long time before they would leave.

Re: Crawdads #47723 05/06/04 08:51 AM
Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 352 Texas T TEXAS715 Lunker
TEXAS715 Lunker T Joined: Jun 2002 Posts: 352 Texas	Invite some friends over and have one heck of a crawdad boil. I think that if you let people know you would have a lot of people wanting to take some off you hands.

Re: Crawdads #47724 05/06/04 02:46 PM
Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 90 Whitney, Texas L Lake Vilbig - Al Kohutek Lunker
Lake Vilbig - Al Kohutek Lunker L Joined: Jan 2003 Posts: 90 Whitney, Texas	If they are easy to get, I would come and get a load off your hands Al Kohutek Irvng, TX email lakevilbig@hotmail.com www.lakevilbig.org

Re: Crawdads #47725 05/07/04 08:01 AM
Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 1,892 Hurst & Bowie Texas D Dave Davidson Lunker
Dave Davidson Lunker D Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 1,892 Hurst & Bowie Texas	Take a look at www.terrybullard.com for crawdad traps. I haven't used his stuff so have no idea whether his claims are true.

Re: Crawdads #47726 05/13/04 02:33 PM
Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 18 Pittsboro, NC S Shane Kennedy Lunker
Shane Kennedy Lunker S Joined: Jul 2003 Posts: 18 Pittsboro, NC	are crayfish bad? i was considering adding them tomy pond is there something i don't know?

Re: Crawdads #47727 05/14/04 05:22 AM
Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 1,892 Hurst & Bowie Texas D Dave Davidson Lunker
Dave Davidson Lunker D Joined: Apr 2002 Posts: 1,892 Hurst & Bowie Texas	Shane, I doubt that there is anything wrong with crawdads. However, I did find one crawdad mound on the Backside of my dam. It was a good 50 ft. from the water and hope the thing went for a walk and dug a hole. I can't believe it tunneled thru the dam.