Crawfish, crawfish, crawfish! - 04/03/17 02:39 AM
Saw live crawfish offered at $1.49 a pound here in Shreveport, cheapest of the season (which will last another month or two at most).
Query: Would it make sense for me to buy a few hundred pounds for my LMB?
Note that I already have some crawfish naturally there, I can see an occasional mound. My dam is in excellent shape, very little leakage and it only dropped about 18 inches at the low last summer. Dam has covering of rip rap down about six vertical feet; deepest part about 25 feet.
I know downside of crawfish is that they burrow & can undermine a dam. Planned on releasing them at far side several hundred yards away from dam, so that maximum numbers would get eaten before they could do damage.
I'm already feeding 1 lb (two 6 second episodes) a day in each of three TH feeders and have abundant CNBG of all sizes up to about 7 inches. Water light green, about 30 - 36 inch visibility (last year 45 to 50 inch), with a little algae (last year zero). Planning on getting fourth feeder set up on 1 lb a day schedule this week.
Any comments, thoughts on whether crawfish make sense? Would I be better off just to put in 100 lb of TP and/or GSH and step up feeding?
Query: Would it make sense for me to buy a few hundred pounds for my LMB?
Note that I already have some crawfish naturally there, I can see an occasional mound. My dam is in excellent shape, very little leakage and it only dropped about 18 inches at the low last summer. Dam has covering of rip rap down about six vertical feet; deepest part about 25 feet.
I know downside of crawfish is that they burrow & can undermine a dam. Planned on releasing them at far side several hundred yards away from dam, so that maximum numbers would get eaten before they could do damage.
I'm already feeding 1 lb (two 6 second episodes) a day in each of three TH feeders and have abundant CNBG of all sizes up to about 7 inches. Water light green, about 30 - 36 inch visibility (last year 45 to 50 inch), with a little algae (last year zero). Planning on getting fourth feeder set up on 1 lb a day schedule this week.
Any comments, thoughts on whether crawfish make sense? Would I be better off just to put in 100 lb of TP and/or GSH and step up feeding?