How To CATCH, COOK, AND CLEAN Rusty Crawfish (Invasive Species) 

I’d have to agree

Because he doesn’t fish for bass 24/7. The only freshwater channels that blow up catch largemouth every video

Plus you have to realize so many channels pay to boost their likes and whatnot. Jay is the real deal, 100% organic growth.

Bc hes canadian lol

True that

Thanks!!

We need some Aaron!

Seconded!

🤔 you mentioned something about Meateater in a previous video and now you have a Meateater shirt on. 🤔 I wonder what's up

Do it!!!

Thats awesome!!

Thank you so much!

Thanks so much!

Thank you kindly!

I mentioned in another reply that I leave them in minnow buckets hanging off my dock for a day or two, and they clean out nicely. But I still purge them inna big bucket with salt (Google it), and boil them extra to kill the Giardia. And BTW fish carcasses are the BEST bait. Save your lake……eat rusty crayfish!

Thanks for the tip!

You should!

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One day!!

Glad you liked it!!

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Easiest things to catch - buy a Frabill trap for like 10 bucks, throw in some fish carcasses, hang off your dock (touching bottom) overnight. They like gravel/sand/rock bottom, muck bottom not as productive.

Thanks homie 🙏🏻

Thanks so much!!

Makes no sense. In MN it is 25lbs limit, and even that is silly. I can catch that overnight off my docks! Think about “purging” them with salt to empty their poop chute, but I find leaving them unfed in a minnow bucket off the dock for a day or so cleans them out. I boil them hard 12-15 minutes to make sure you kill the Giardia. Made that undercooking mistake only once, never again. Claws are worth cracking open. Good video!

They impose silly limits like this to keep themselves to stay relevant and impose their authority over you.

Invasive or not, completely decimating a species can be harmful to the ecosystem

@@tyfaichney3165 Ty, maybe you haven’t really experienced them. In my 40,000 acre MN lake (and throughout MN, WI, MI and now million-acre Lake of the Woods) they have turned entire bays of cabbage weed into literal barren wastelands, drastically reducing largemouth, northern and panfish habitat and populations. They kill all the native crayfish. They occupy every inch of the bottom, and they grow so large so quickly that any predators can’t dent the populations. Like Asian carp and spiny waterfleas and Eurasian milfoil, they don’t belong here, and any fisheries biologist will explain they soon dominate the ecosystem. So I will personally trap and eat my legal limit and encourage expanded limits and commercial fishing of them to TRY to provide some counterbalance, but I expect they will permanently distort if not destroy all these ecosystems. I look at them like underwater murder hornets - not a lot of redeeming features. Except in a pot.

Ontario DNR is just as as bad as Minnesota DNR. Insane amount of trivial regulations, excessive taxation, and intense punishments. This is an example of how its both detrimental to conservation and offensive to liberty. If anyone argues against, they are just accused of wanting to completely plunder natural resources. Though I am no fan of the state, North Dakota DNR is far more reasonable then MN/Ontario. Maximizing conservation effectiveness with maximum liberty should be the goal.

Yah Jay purge them with salt. While still alive pour a bunch of salt in the bucket. They will barf up all their nasty gut stuff(the green stuff you see inside) they are way cleaner to eat this way.

Yup. I soak them off the dock in a minnow bucket(s) at least overnight so they move out some of that poop, remove any dead ones, then purge. What I do to purge (interested to hear others’ approach) is put all the crayfish in a big bucket, just cover with fresh water, then pour on handfuls of salt. I let them sit about 1/2 hour, stir them up, pour off the salt water (not on your lawn), then fill with fresh water again, stir them up, drain and you’re ready. Those “mud veins” are kind of gross, pull them out when peeling.

Thanks for the info. I'd heard that you can pull the tail after they are cooked, not before.

Thanks!!

Good to know!! Thanks!

Definitely!

Goals.

@@JaySiemens speaking of goals. Uhmmm. Meat eater das boat eppy??? That's gonna be sweet. Makes sense with your new shirts in every video you've been putting out

In MN the trap opening diameter can legally only be 1.5”, purportedly to exclude baby turtles that would drown - but you’re right, it excludes some of them big crawdaddies too. Never seen a baby turtle in my traps. Maybe adjusting your traps to a “generous” 1.5” should be considered.

@@richarddeangelo1379 i think the factor holes are one inch. That extra half of an inch would help out alot!

I believe it is illegal in MB.

Good to know!