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Crafted my very first crayfish trap over the last couple of days. Got it to where I was happy with it, decided to deploy the trap this morning to see if I could find a good location for some crays in the creek just south of the pond. Have 4 bridges close, looked at each one of them and settled in on a small pool just below a riffle. There was an old tree and a bit of debris with some nice rocky outcroppings close by. It looked really good for crayfish.

Baited up the trap with some dogfood, set it in the water, tied it off to the bridge and headed back home to get a little work done. Checked the trap this evening and man-o-man did I ever hit the motherlode of bluegill and green sunfish! Must have been 30+ of them in the 3-4" range.

Set the little buggers free back into the creek and decided to try again in slightly shallower water out of the base of the pool.

Looking forward to checking things again tomorrow. Not really ready to stock the crayfish yet but would like to narrow down a spot for the trapping and what species of crayfish I can find.