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Live crawdads?
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04/27/15 04:15 AM
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PlanoGuy
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Wanting to use live crawdads for bass fishing. Does anyone know where I can buy some around the dfw area? Thanks
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Re: Live crawdads?
[Re: PlanoGuy]
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04/27/15 04:21 AM
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Andrew Y'Barbo
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If you'll buy the bag I'll teach ya how to cook em. Bout the only thing they good for.
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Re: Live crawdads?
[Re: PlanoGuy]
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04/27/15 05:31 AM
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kingfish_1970
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You'll catch a lot of goo with crawdads. I've never caught a bass on one.
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Re: Live crawdads?
[Re: PlanoGuy]
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04/27/15 07:02 AM
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Samuel Ragle
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Plenty of people have caught bass using live crawdads, just not something you hear about all the time. I say good luck, and hopefully someone knows where you can get some
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Re: Live crawdads?
[Re: PlanoGuy]
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04/27/15 10:43 AM
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DallasCreeks
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This time of year you can usually find them at all the Asian markets for a good price. I go to the one by Richland College.
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Re: Live crawdads?
[Re: PlanoGuy]
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04/27/15 11:22 AM
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JACKTHE
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I used to use live crawdads to catch trophy bass in southern California. They were dynamite for large bass. I used the biggest ones I could find, and caught almost exclusively large bass with them. Very successful with them in California, not so much here. I believe right now is crawdad season here. You can buy them at most supermarkets. They are cold storage and not great for bait. Kind of beat up. Better if you can trap or seine some out of a local ditch.
Jack Theroff
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Re: Live crawdads?
[Re: PlanoGuy]
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04/27/15 01:10 PM
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RedRanger
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Wanting to use live crawdads for bass fishing. Does anyone know where I can buy some around the dfw area? Thanks Fiesta had them for 1.79 lb and the Asian store in Plano off Legacy had them for $3.49 lb. You can usually seine a bar ditch and get a lot of them. I used to run trotlines at Grapevine when it flooded and used Crawdads, I caught a lot of catfish on them
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Re: Live crawdads?
[Re: PlanoGuy]
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04/27/15 01:15 PM
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James Biggs
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You will catch more drum & catfish on them than bass. Olsen's in Lake Worth carries them.
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Re: Live crawdads?
[Re: PlanoGuy]
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04/27/15 03:04 PM
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Tundra/Tyler
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I used to use them growing up in Southern California. They work great and you do catch some pigs. Make sure you use them around a harder bottom like some hard clay transitions or rock piles. Anchor up and stitch em!!
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Re: Live crawdads?
[Re: PlanoGuy]
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04/27/15 03:23 PM
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reeltexan
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I used to buy them all the time at these Mexican meat markets. They worked great and they are hard to kill.
I've seen bass run 30 ft. to clobber one. Check the internet for the proper way to hook them and good luck!
"..The pleasantist angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream, And greedily devour the treacherous bait. Bill Shakespeare
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Re: Live crawdads?
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04/27/15 03:57 PM
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Fishbreeder
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I used to use live crawdads to catch trophy bass in southern California. They were dynamite for large bass. I used the biggest ones I could find, and caught almost exclusively large bass with them. Very successful with them in California, not so much here. I believe right now is crawdad season here. You can buy them at most supermarkets. They are cold storage and not great for bait. Kind of beat up. Better if you can trap or seine some out of a local ditch. For years I sent the smaller (over 50 count) crawfish to a bait distributor in Cali. The amount he paid me, the air cargo and the trouble to go and pick them up at the airport, I figured he must be gettin' $2 a throw for the things. He told me they used the larger of the batch for bass fishing and the tiny ones for trout.
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Re: Live crawdads?
[Re: PlanoGuy]
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04/27/15 04:19 PM
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LukeMcFarlane
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I saw a guy smashing 2-5lb bass on them one day under a bridge on Lake o the Pines.
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Re: Live crawdads?
[Re: PlanoGuy]
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04/27/15 04:22 PM
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Longeye
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They work great for bass and catfish. For all the bass fisherman on here that say they don't work for bass, they are just messing with you because of the "live bait" issue that they have.
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Re: Live crawdads?
[Re: Longeye]
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04/27/15 04:28 PM
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cosmokramer
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They work great for bass and catfish. For all the bass fisherman on here that say they don't work for bass, they are just messing with you because of the "live bait" issue that they have. Yep they are just messing because they definitely work. I also find it amusing that guys who have electronics that basically capture live video of underwater fish give people that use live bait a hard time ...gotta love the irony.
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Re: Live crawdads?
[Re: PlanoGuy]
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04/27/15 04:31 PM
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Anchorman
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They will catch anything big enough to eat them. They are a delicacy to the fish. They don't have to chase them and they get a full tummy quick. And as nature would have it they are very nutritious for the fish. I've read they will eat a crawfish before any other natural food source. Back when I bass fished a lot I had more craw worms in my tackle than any other soft plastic. A simple texas rigged craw worm along the edge of the grass would do the trick. Then the scented baits came out, then sinko's etc.
Wish I could help you on where to get them. We always set traps the day we went cat fishing and had plenty. You could build a trap and catch your own. Then if you catch a PB bass you will have some serious bragging rights to share with us.
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