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Crawfish Trap help lewisville #11536960 04/12/16 04:57 PM
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Got bored and built 3 crawfish traps to try something new!
Now all I have to do is find somewhere to put em.
Any suggestions off lewisville near the colony?

Re: Crawfish Trap help lewisville [Re: acbrown1977] #11537136 04/12/16 05:42 PM
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I see its got lots of views....
Any advice is awesome.. even if its from a different area, it will let me learn how Texas mudbugs go about stuff compared to Florida ones...

Re: Crawfish Trap help lewisville [Re: acbrown1977] #11537732 04/12/16 08:40 PM
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IDK squat about catching them. My buddy in east tx traps them. He puts the traps in shallow flooded bottoms. 1-2 ft or so. He uses fish carcasses as bait. He was actually using a minnow trap in order to catch the smaller ones for bait.



Re: Crawfish Trap help lewisville [Re: acbrown1977] #11537831 04/12/16 09:26 PM
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In South Louisiana we would put traps in calm, shallow, muddy water.




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Re: Crawfish Trap help lewisville [Re: acbrown1977] #11538049 04/12/16 10:50 PM
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I reach in and grab a few when I see them waving their claws above water. Other than that I have no idea. :p

Re: Crawfish Trap help lewisville [Re: acbrown1977] #11538105 04/12/16 11:25 PM
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thanks for the info guys!
Just got done fishing near the trail off lakeshore in the colony... good nbr of bass in there with some shad too

Re: Crawfish Trap help lewisville [Re: acbrown1977] #11538119 04/12/16 11:31 PM
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We used to use minnow traps and put dead or barely alive minnows in it. Shallow water. Next day it would have a bunch in it.

Re: Crawfish Trap help lewisville [Re: acbrown1977] #11538134 04/12/16 11:35 PM
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Just tie some bacon on a string and yank those mudbugs outta the water.


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Originally Posted By: MrNovice
Just tie some bacon on a string and yank those mudbugs outta the water.


Thats what we used to do in the creeks when we were kids. Bacon or ham on a string. Probably put some in your traps for bait.

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Originally Posted By: Fisherman13
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Just tie some bacon on a string and yank those mudbugs outta the water.


Thats what we used to do in the creeks when we were kids. Bacon or ham on a string. Probably put some in your traps for bait.

Re: Crawfish Trap help lewisville [Re: acbrown1977] #11539635 04/13/16 03:11 PM
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I have a local pond I will go to at night and catch about a dozen in 30 minutes. I use a dip net or my hand. I would check on the bylaws for setting traps in a local/city pond unless you plan on sticking around and not leaving it for a period of time.

Re: Crawfish Trap help lewisville [Re: acbrown1977] #11539891 04/13/16 04:37 PM
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Ive checked and the only regs I can find on the fish n game site is for minnow traps.
Called a warden to double check before setting them but havent heard back yet. I'll let yeh know what I find out after speaking to a warden.

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Are you catching these to use for bait or eating them?

Re: Crawfish Trap help lewisville [Re: acbrown1977] #11541497 04/14/16 04:24 AM
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Waterways and creeks often run in behind shopping centers or through neighborhoods. If you can find some spots with heavy brush/snags or rock those types of places usually hold crawdads. I don't know if you have any farmland close by, but the silty drainage ditches that run through wheat fields and such are usually my favorite spots. Look for the tell-tale chimneys they make in the mud. I use whole bluegill in my traps, filleted down to the tail on both sides, but still all attached. To tie bait in my traps I use single strand coated copper wire. Most of the time I just use a dip net with fine mesh, especially in agricultural drainage ditches. The part of the net that drags bottom all the time wears out quickly, so I sew on some double thick denim or something on the frame of the net to protect it. I sew it on with braided fishing line that I save when respooling. Hope this helps! Good luck!


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Re: Crawfish Trap help lewisville [Re: acbrown1977] #11541498 04/14/16 04:26 AM
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Oh, and I mainly use the $4.99 minnow traps from Academy


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