Get you a crawfish/perch trap , put some bacon in it .Put it out in the morning .Run it in the afternoon and you will have more crawfish than you'll need .

I have an in to where to get huge craws. Arizona craws are great.

Here is a link on to a video on how to make a crawdad trap.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QSR_3TY0HVU

I think some of these stories are funny. This brings back some fond and not so fond memories! I lived in Louisiana for 20+ years and I have seen it all when it comes to catching and cooking these little mud-bugs! I lived in Morgan City for 10 years and Lake Charles for about 10 years. The best places to find BIG crawfish is in rivers or lakes. Some of the biggest crawfish I have seen came from Toledo Bend. Looked like lobsters. They have to eat and these areas are the best for food. They like a muddy bottom next to some kind of vegetation. They use holes or tunnels to bread in. So they will make crawfish mounds on land. Find these and your set. Trees that are in the water are the best. Reeds are ok but river bottoms with oaks or cypress is best. We used box type traps because they hold more and we left these for a few days. Use shad as bait for years then we found a solid bait from a feed store in DeRidder called Oneals that would catch them ten times better. It looks like big dog food and smells like you know what but it works great. Big 50 pound bag will last a good while and its like $25 bucks if I rememeber right. I have seen and caught well over 5000 pounds in a day. We have places around Lake Charles that I can buy them for 80 cents a pound for mediums and $1.25 for selects. Selects are really big and a crowd pleaser but the best tasting ones are the mediums cause they hold the juice better. Best times of my life was with my dad in a pirogue(pea-row=cajun canoe) watching the sun come up over cypress trees....

"Laissez lez bon temps roule"- Let the good times role

Those pyramid shaped traps are not needed. A standard minnow trap will work.




In SE Tx south of me the flooded area they use are rice fields. Crawfish will feed on the decaying rice stalks.

Cheap crawfish net traps are available by the dozen but you have to stay with them and run them frequently. We used these when I was younger:



The wire sticks out of the water and we used a stout pole with a hook to lift them up from about 6' away.

Crawfish have gills.

Just think of smallie fishing in the Great Lakes where the smallies live on crawfish and gobi minnows. They will be 25' deep.

Love it.

Grew up south of Beaumont (Port Neches) until I was 16. We marsh trapped frequently. I knew an old coonass that would ease around in a small flatbottom and catch them by hand around the cypress tree root balls in the rivers. He'd been snake bit like 5-6 times.

Minnow trap, but get out the wire snips and make the entry holes just a little bigger.