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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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?

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

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.

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

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 .

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

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

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!

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Bacon works good as bait as well

It's like watching a tutorial on how to spend $10 bait to get $10 worth of crayfish.

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.

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

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

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

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

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 🙏🏽

I want this guy as my neighbor when all the grids get shut down

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

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

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

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.

Add salt to help purge faster

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

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

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

Thanks, I really enjoyed the video!

Well damn 30 years later and I still don't purge my crawfish .

Your videos are so entertaining!

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.

Thanks! Learning little by little

Beautiful, nice vid bro

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!

A great presentation. Thank you.

As a Louisianan, I approve.

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.

Thanks for all the help!

I feel bad for those who didn’t grow up with a creek with crawdads

You git a line and I'll git a pole and we'll go down to the crawdad hole.

Not just awesome...Awesomeness!

Really good info thanks man.

Fantastic video bro. You made me hungry.

I held my promise I loved this video

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

Is there a law that prevents making the hole in the trap larger (in order to catch larger crayfish)? I personally have no patience in eating this kind of tiny crayfish. On a bad year, I dump back everything under 10cm (4 inches), and on a good year everything under 11cm.

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

i tried this a found way to many turtles love cray fish! turtles destroy traps as / almost as fast as you put the traps catch some

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

Bacon is some of the best bait I've found

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

I always use cheap dog food. I wrap it up in a pantyhose, zip tie it to the bottom of the trap because it will float. Works great everytime.

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.

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

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

Great video, keep em comin!

How should I make the holes on the trap bigger

This is a very interesting video! Like it

What are you using them for?

Man living in texas and then going to school at Colorado state university every pond outside the city of Fort Collins was packed with these signal crayfish I was used to crawfishing in east texas near the border of Louisiana but my friends and I would go out at night and I would always keep the brown trout after I would fillet them and and pond that was near the river would have millions in them. We would cut up a chunk and make about 12 hand lines all over the bank. It would take us maybe an hour and a half to fill a cooler of them. I would bring them back to the house and put them in a 4’ blue kiddie pool and use two fish tank airblowers. In Colorado they don’t have crawfish boil so I always had to order it off the internet. I would purge them out for two days and then we would have a huge boil. It was so much fun nobody else was catching them and we would catch more than we knew what to do with. They don’t taste the same as red crawfish but they get the job done when your away at school and your favorite food is boiled crawfish from Louisiana. It was always just fun going out and having fun.

Good video

Great vid thank you for sharing

I tie my metal traps together with a 12-18 inch wire just so that if it comes apart I wont lose half of it.

Bro this is epic

The only spot I'm trying right now is a river... I'll get 6 at most... Are lakes better?

Looking for two wire trash cans... and a couple clips.

Great video mate Thanks

Great video! 👍🏽

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

Best bate is sweet corn😮

Some one said add salt to ur water for cleaning them

With air filtration does that also have a filter to clean out the dirty water or do you change the water and add new water just adding air to the water? Does that make sense? Hopefully. Subscribed!!

nice catch it seems to be easy, I have the trap and next time I use some sardines for baits

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.

Those are some hefty sized crawfish

Show us how you cook kind sir.

when was the underwater gopro footage of the trap?

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.

Good stuff mate.

Great video

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

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

I wanna see how they look after you clean them

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

If you had a fishing magnet throw it out a few times, you may get your missing piece back.

How long in between you drop to pickup

Great info thank you God Bless