I want to stock crawfish but have 0 rock for them.....
Doomed or?
It's likely that you have crayfish but that the numbers aren't very high. Increasing cover should help increase the population. crayfish are easy to culture. So a forage pond like czimmerman is planning would be a great place to culture crayfish adults that have completed the mating phase. With knowledge of the time they will exude eggs, you can time their release into the pond when or just before this is happening and this will increase your chances of getting off good spawn of baby crays. The life cycles and behaviors vary a lot. Some species burrow during exudation of eggs. But if you identify the species, you can study up and make plans with timing that will increase the potential production.
I think there ought to be a lot of ditches along the county roads near your pond that carry water from time to time. Invariably ditches, particularly when they do not support fish populations long term, are full of the 'dads. Use a minnow trap like Snipe and QA do. I think they increased the size of their traps holes in order to allow the larger crayfish to enter. They use Optimal fish feed I think as bait. As a kid we would take a pole and line and tie on a piece of bacon. Crawfish will come to feed and you can just lift them out of the water while they hold on to the bait. So maybe you could set a couple of traps and fish will a pole while they soak to get a start of them. Take some kids with you, they will work tirelessly on a quest like this.
