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Crawfish Burrows In My Yard
#1
Guest_Stumpknocker_*
Posted 13 March 2008 - 11:00 PM
Thanks for your time.
#2
Guest_Newt_*
Posted 13 March 2008 - 11:35 PM
Or you could just use a shovel. Sometimes the crawdads will come sit at the entrance to the burrow, especially at night. You can go out with a light and try to spot them; when you see one, quickly jab the shovel at an angle so that it closes off the burrow below him. Then you can easily scoop him up (provided you weren't too slow or aimed poorly and cut him in half instead).
But burrowing crayfish are not the same species as the ones you usually find in the water. You're better off finding true aquatic crayfish for your tank. You can catch them in minnow traps sometimes, or you can use traps designed for crayfish (they're essentially like minnow traps, but they're square or at least flat-bottomed to make it easier for crawdads to crawl in). You can bait them with sardines, dry cat food, or really anything meaty.
Edited by Newt, 13 March 2008 - 11:36 PM.
#3
Guest_ashtonmj_*
Posted 14 March 2008 - 06:54 AM
If you plan on keeping it I would suggest you not keep with in a fully aquatic tank. A smaller plastic critter tank with some gravel and a few rocks with water almost up to the surface of the gravel will work or a more elaborate design if you prefer in a larger tank. I suggest getting some pictures and sending them to Chris Skelton for identification if you catch any.
#4
Guest_Stumpknocker_*
Posted 14 March 2008 - 07:51 AM
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#5
Guest_ashtonmj_*
Posted 14 March 2008 - 08:03 AM
#6
Guest_daveneely_*
Posted 14 March 2008 - 08:06 AM
www.rodenator.com/press01.htm
the thought of playing mudbug lacrosse wasn't enough to warrant it. there's no substitute for digging.
#7
Guest_Stumpknocker_*
Posted 14 March 2008 - 08:07 AM
I've found that the entanglement method can be somewhat destructive, even lethal. If you get a claw bent back pulling it out of the burrow it's not going to let go.
Hmm thank you for your input. I think I will try the water method...and tonight before I go to bed I will bait my bottle and leave it by the greater amount of burrows, I am assuming this is where the crawfish comes up the most at maybe he'll take a stroll into my bottle for an oscar`meyer or a sardine...
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#8
Guest_Stumpknocker_*
Posted 14 March 2008 - 08:20 AM
dig, dig, dig. dang things seem to almost always be past armpit-deep. I cut the heck out of my hands digging through iced-up mud trying to get Cambarus dubius on the Appalachian Plateau a couple of winters back. It made me consider the following (if only for the briefest of moments...):
www.rodenator.com/press01.htm
the thought of playing mudbug lacrosse wasn't enough to warrant it. there's no substitute for digging.
I could imagine you feeling that way with icy mud cutting your hands...Ouch! but i can't believe they are usually down that deep. I think I'm gonna try to bait the bottle and fill the holes up and hopefully tomorrow morning I will have crawfish in my bottle or by the end of the day I hope to be able to run one out of it's hole. I read somewhere that some dropped alka seltzer down a hole to flush them out...
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#9
Guest_Stumpknocker_*
Posted 14 March 2008 - 09:23 AM
#10
Guest_dafrimpster_*
Posted 14 March 2008 - 01:16 PM
#11
Guest_Stumpknocker_*
Posted 14 March 2008 - 06:05 PM
as a kid we would go out at night withe a piece of bacon tied to a piece of string. Sometimes you could see the crawdad in the hole and drop the bacon right to him. Othert time a stick would help get rthe bacon deep enough. He would grab on and with slow steady pressure you could coax him out. As soon as he is outside the hole cover the hole so he can't get back in there and you have him. I wouldn't want to try and catch 50 of them this way but it was good entertainment on summer evenings.
Crafty little buggers stole my hotdog...
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#12
Guest_Stumpknocker_*
Posted 06 April 2008 - 08:17 PM
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