Thanks to everyone who is contributing to this thread.
I am pretty sure I have learned more about crayfish in this thread than I have in all of the other documents I have read combined!
Agreed, this thread is super interesting to me, I had no idea they had such prolific reproduction rates, in and old strip pit pond that we fish in, before the otters cleaned it out, the nicest, biggest, fattest LMB and BC we caught were always loaded with craw fish, even tho there were some bluegill in the pond, I know there weren't enough to sustain the growth we were seeing in the bass and crappie. I always wondered how craw fish could even maintain a population with so much predation.
Which was the reason why I wanted to make sure I had a start of them in my new pond, and the most luck I had catching bass was on a Strike King imitation craw rigged on a 3/8oz or so weedless jighead, we could go out and just catch a mess of LMB everytime with that rig, again, before the otters wiped out all the big ones.
