a few years back I added around 1200 of those little bity crawfish to the pond. As they grew I discovered they were red swamp craws and like just like Crawfish Dealer described, I wound up having crawfish holes all around the ponds edge. I had so many that the coons were feasting on them by digging the craws up along the shoreline. And what few plants I had wound up being completely denuded, all of my efforts to establish good plants went by the wayside. Today I still have crawfish around the ponds edge, a few holes here and there but not near as many as that first year when I had only new fingerling lmb in the pond. My thinking back then was the craws would feed the RES for the mostpart and the very small lmb along with maybe a few cnbg. I know RES love to eat those itty bitty craws. I added around a hundred of those small craws just a couple of weeks back with plans to add a lot more. But, the weather has been wet and cold lately so just waiting for a nice day in the near future to capture another couple of hundred for the pond. One thing I think ii came to believe is that the crawfish burrows must have been shallow if the coons were able to dig them up and these crawfish by that time were not little bitty crawfish but large 5 -6" crawdads
Last edited by TGW1; 04/14/20 12:35 PM.
