Do any of you know where I can buy live crawfish around the San Antonio area. I want to take a bunch down to my ranch and stock a tank with them. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks

Kroegers or most grocery stores should have them. You might have to ask the person behind the meat counter, I think if they put them out on the shelf they would crawl away. LOL

Thanks I will check it out.

They are very seasonal in most grocery stores. You might have to wait on them to come in. The Kroger we shopped at for years had a waiting list, and they'd call us a couple of weeks before they came in.

We now get ours from a Chinese Supermarket in Dallas. They have them year round. And better prices too. They also have live talapia, eels, and all kinds of stuff I've never seen before. It makes for an interesting shopping trip.
Jay

Do they reproduce like that?

I do not see why they wouldn't reproduce. Psycho, what kind of prices did you find for them?

Sundownbrown - Fiesta has a sale on crawfish right now for .99/lb if you buy a sack (about 35-40lbs.)

Word of caution, if your pond is new, you might want to rethink putting crawfish in since they will burrow into your dam! If you have a stable enough bass population in there, it shouldn't be a problem and they will reproduce in a pond.

I got a sack this past Saturday in Austin at Fiesta...sure hated letting all of them go in the pond....sure were some big ones in there.

I just put a bunch of baby catfish in there and want to put some perch and crawfish in there before I put some bass in there. The dam on the tank serves as a road so it is pretty stable. I'm going to catch some bass out of the creek on our ranch and put them in the tank. I'm trying to let the catfish grow some so the bass won't eat the little ones. Thanks for the input.

Where is the Chinese Supermarket at in Dallas!

You want to wait a year before putting bass into a new pond especially with stocker catfish and sunfish. Make sure to put some redear sunfish in your pond as well to keep the snail population down that will host on fish and transmit the intestinal and intramuscular worms on your fish.

You need to make sure on the bass you put in are of legal length in order to keep them and that's not the best thing to do since you could be taking one species of fish and/or ecto/endo-parasites from one area and contaminating another. Get your bass from a reliable aquatic dealer.

also you can check with the seafood dept. at h.e.b. grocery alot of times they will special order for you if they have a supplier. use to work for heb.

sundownbrown:

It sounds like the breambuster may possess a little more knowledge on the subject than the average bear. You might ought to get in touch with him and have a tete-tete before you... er, you know.

Crawdads are good - boiled or fried with .

I usually can get them at a world market if there is one near you. I fished for them in college a semester or two. I wasn't as good at catching them as I was at eating them, however, I'm pretty sure the season runs earliest in Novemeber and at the latest until about now.

Thanks to everyone who responded.

i found a stand out on HWY 205 between Rockwall and Terrell.. before your get to McCLendon coming from Rockwall... its on the west side of the road. theres a pond down a ways behind the stand.. I "think" that may be thier source.....