I have a decision to make. I trapped 18 craws this weekend (probably some in the trap from last night too), but 5 or 6 of them are carrying eggs. I rarely see any small crawdads milling about. My guess is that they are being eating by my smaller fish. I am contemplating putting the females with eggs back in the pond so that can create that small class of forage. I have never trapped this early in the season hence the berried females. I suspect I will be turning them back to the pond. This will slow the build up of craw numbers, but if rates continue, which they should with warming weather, I will have about 40-50 craws ready for someone this weekend. They are 3 to 4" long.
