How to Catch Crawfish (UNDERWATER GoPro View!) 

There is an Amazon affiliate link to purchase the traps I used in this video in the description or right here: amzn.to/2yA8QzG Do you want to see more trapping videos? Shiners? Crayfish? Let me know down below! Thanks for watching!

Finally! A quick-moving fishing video that doesn't feature a shot of some guy standing and talking. Slowly. Droning on and on and on... Very well done.

Great video! Straight to the point and very well explained. I've never done this, but maybe now I can :)

Great video: I wish you still made more like these with the crawfish and underwater activity.

Great video sir! Simple, informative but definitely watchable! I’m a subscriber!

Finally someone who knows how to properly clean and purge mudbugs. I cringe every time i hear or see somebody use salt to make them throw up.

watched your squid video and absolutely loved it, the channels like this deserve more recognition! Keep up the good work - from Australia

your two go pro videos on crawfish are great. Good detailed narration.

Wow soo many that's a really good example of a healthy fishery in your own back yard ! I wish I was a kid growing up in your part of the world I'd love it .

Wow!! Great video ,I'm going crayfish fishing soon and this video has some great ideas! Thx.

Crazy how much gunk comes off and inside them. Thanks for the info

WOW, that was exciting as heck to watch! I want some for my outdoor ponds. Thanks! Subscriber from Florida.

Wow this was the best video I’ve seen on here... I love learning and seeing how things are done and this was perfect. My one question is... when you go through the process of cleaning them for that long does that kill off more of them?

Thanks! Learning little by little

I have this bird cage looks like those traps, I got a idea.

Thank you soooo much for this video, i recently went to a creek on some mountain in Santa Cruz and there was sooo many craw fish i dint know how to catch them so your video help me alot, thank you 🙏🏽

Thanks for all the help!

Really good info thanks man.

Really good video. I want to see how well they do for trout. The infor on cleaning your catch was very interesting. I would never have considered that on my own.

Thank you for the interesting and informative video.

Thanks, I really enjoyed the video!

A great presentation. Thank you.

Used to catch em using a bucket and a stick.....put the bucket behind a rock turn rock over and stab the stick into the ground on the opposite site and they will swim right into the bucket

Wow thanks brother. Just stumbled on this video. I've been dying to try crawfish. Didnt realize the amount of stuff that comes off and out of them. Thanks for the great tip. I'm heading out tomorrow. Folks from canada / southern Ontario say thank you.

amazing stuff keep up the good work brother I've seen a lot of people frying right out of the creek it's good to know a way to clean them up like that,very good stuff man.

Beautiful, nice vid bro

Nice video!!! Awesome how you got them cleaned up with the fresh water.

Great video, keep em comin!

Its like Christmas!!😋😋 Nice vid brotha!!👍👍

Great video mate Thanks

I held my promise I loved this video

I have the same traps here in the UK, only bought them about a couple of months ago, going to give them a go this summer

Your videos are so entertaining!

Great vid thank you for sharing

Excellent video! I ordered a trap on Amazon. When I was a boy, I would get barefoot, walk through the creek in my neighborhood and hurt grab crayfish with my bare hands. I could have the bottom of a bucket covered in an hour, but a trap is going to save me a lot of walking. I am going to get a pet cat and I love sardines. So, I think the first baits I will try in my Crawdad trap are semi- moist cat food (that comes in a pouch) and sardines in oil. I want the crayfish for a "natural" fish tank that I am creating that will not have the typical "tropical fish," but fish representative of the lakes around me, here in Northern Illinois. In college, I caught a small bluegill on a rod and reel and kept it in a 10 gal. tank in my apt. for years. This tank will have a pea gravel bottom, rocks from the beaches of Lake Michigan, live freshwater plants, crayfish, plecostomus, Google eyed goldfish and minnows. I am interested in eating some of the larger Crawdads that I catch. I'm assuming that you only eat the tail. Could you post your favorite recipe. We have a New Orleans style restaurant here in Chicago land called "Crawdaddy Bayou." I had the crowded tails in white sauce with cheese over linguine and it was fantastic. That with some garlic bread and a panettone Ribbon beer = heaven! 😉

Great video! 👍🏽

This is a very interesting video! Like it

I never knew to use an aquarium aerator to purge them. GREAT IDEA!!!

Good job, good vid; you are are a true sportsman/survialist big bro.

Fantastic video bro. You made me hungry.

love the video man! do you put anything in the water to purge them?

Nice video! If you think that's alot of purge from them crawfish.... I put 2 cups of salt too 100 bugs. It will clean them out even further for ya!

Not just awesome...Awesomeness!

Good stuff mate.

Great video

John gualding in Hamshire Tx have a craw fish farm between Houston and Beaumont on interstate ten.

Thanks for a great broadcast I'm in upstate NY I'm a new bee to survival. Do you need to have to coolers in a cold spot if you are leaving the crawfish in there for 48 hrs???

I usually just grab them out of the creek, i have some diy traps i use when i need a bunch of them, i use raw bacon. suspend the bait in the middle of the trap.

Bro this is epic

Great video! Have you tried any of the Crayster traps? They are made in Idaho. Nice traps. I bought two of the Crayster lake traps last spring.

Cool vid. You should try half a slab of bacon in there. You'll catch millions. In my area on the gulf, Bacon is the Heroin for Crawdaddys.

If you are one of the people responsible for the glorious supply of crawfish at my local store here in NY, I just want to say god bless you sir! I never really ate them because my entire family in Arkansas couldn't get over their bug like appearance. Despite that, I just kept hearing people say they tasted so good! So after trying some "Long John Silvers" and finding out that I absolutely LOVE shrimp, and also finding out that I love sushi, I figured I may like crawfish too. I must admit that I was originally put off by their look just like the rest of my family, but after I tore into my first few (very messy with no sense of technique) WOW the feast I was missing all that time. I regularly purchase these things now from my local store and even include them in my weight gain diet. They are absolutely superb!

Louisiana alrady does this, but I think more places should look at crawfish as a source of food.

Did you dechlorinate the water or did you use tap water for the cooler you kept them in?

I was planning on stocking my pond with crawfish this summer for the bass. It’s a rocky pond. I was wondering how often you pull up invasive craws because rusty craws are invasive in Michigan. Thanks for the video

Thanks for this awesome video! I have a few questions that maybe a pro like you can answer. I just purchased three traps and I placed them overnight a couple times with chicken tided in his bait. It's super oily so I know which should be a good bait. I live in Upstate NY and catching hasn't been good so far. I noticed you talked about temp changing their behavior a little. What air temp is a good one to look out for for setting trap? It's been a bit chilly this year and it's only May. Is there a month that they're better to catch in? Also, I have tanks to keep them in before Ive gathered enough for a boil, how long do they last in a well aerated tank? Is there a point that I should feed them while waiting for a large enough batch, like a week?

Great video! Can you provide info on the aerator you use?

Do you just use water from the spicket for the holding tank/cooler? Also what state is this?

Found some sandy bottom areas to have plenty of them; depends of food availability.

I put a wire loop on the top of my southbend trap so that a little tension on the rope makes the trap land right side up. Good channel btw I plan on watching all of your vids. You have good content and watchable videos but low views unfortunately. Keep up the good work. A lot of people watch this stuff they just don’t know this channel

How do you make the hole entrances on your homemade crawfish trap, been trying it for ages but cant come up with a good sollution

Nice video! Will you be doing a video on how to cook up crawfish?

Thanks!!!

Great info thank you God Bless

I watch this video all the time. where are you fishing?

Use a camo pattern paracord in the future. None of my traps have been found while using it.

Good video

Did you do some more videos about crawfish

nice go pro views!

My new area has crawlfish in the creek. I just place my trap in thr water and seeing some . I will pull it up tonight

I catch these in my back yard lolol caught 8 and kept three and they are awesome

Can they live in that water in the ice chest? You have to treat it is that just water hose water there’s no problem with a little bit of chlorine. Just curious.

Looked for a bag like that; where and who makes it? Use of removable ties will ensure the 2 halves stay together in the cast and water.

Awesome

Dope subbed

good video

Great video. Is that just tap water you are allowing them to purge in?

In my lake there are mussel and crawfish and with the mussel open, upside down you can pinch them and sometimes you'll find a crawfish.

Sup brother. Gave the thumbs up. Forgot one tip. Dropping some corn meal or anything in the cooler to flush them out. Like clams. They will eat it and dispense all the last yuck... Before eating. Till next time be well. Hit me up for b.s. and notes

Using to get the crawdads out of our small pond so we can relocate them to a drainage stream. It gets little ones and jumbos.

I hate when people use them for bait. They're too damn good for that.

How should I make the holes on the trap bigger

I live in southern Michigan. Is there a certain temperature that is ideal for trapping crawfish ??

I just caught five with my small net and a clear plastic cup :D

What are you using them for?

I caught my crayfish in tide pools, near the shore and under rocks. I usually find newborns there since they always go to the shore

Hi Matt. I may be wrong but it looks as though your snap has been replaced with a snap from another trap? It looks longer than my Gee's G-40 snap. Let me know. If you have replaced any snaps with imported snaps please let me know and I will replace them for you. The imported snaps are not the same wire thickness and the hook bends are inconsistent causing the snap to be faulty.

I add cornmeal TO HOLDING crawdads, helps purge their innerds.

My man just changed my life I had no idea you had to let me clean out for a few days I can’t wait to taste the difference

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This is really helpful. Sadly where I live you cannot transport live crayfish.

Well made informative film, thx. That's quite a bit of good fish yr using to catch something that doesn't give you as much food in return without a lot of work. Does it make sense in terms of money?

How long in between you drop to pickup

As a Louisianan, I approve.

Always used fried chicken as bait so I can agree that oily baits are the best to attract them.

How me and my family do it with is we grab a fishing rod, take the hook off because we don't want it to grab into something under the water. After that, we tie some food to the end of the rod. The most common here in fish heads, salami, snails, and really any kind of meat the crawfish can grab onto. And we also put a small rock or something heavy to weigh the food down. After we see that thing that in on top of the water and is colourful ( I forgot the name of it) move, we let it stay a bit longer and then we pull the rod slowly out and to the edge. We keep the crawfish just under the water untill we put a rod with a either a sack or an opened cage attached under the crawfish and lift it out. And we just put them in a bucked. You don't really need a fishing rod, you can use a long branch with string attached and tie the food and rock to the end of that.

Bacon works good as bait as well

Nice video I wonder if we have crawfish in south Africa just chilling lol

Nice

Where are you from or where was this filmed