Hey there, thank you for the crayfis video. It was very entertaining. I had to watch out of my left eye. On the 2nd July, I had a catract op on the right eye. Have to use a sheild for a few days more.Looing forward to see you enjoying your meal tomorrow. Annie Low Malaysia. Sad news, my friend who had a crayfish farm, had a stroke and he had to give up his award winning and thriving biz.He worked very hard giving lessons to students and suppying fries to all who were interested God bless him
Hint: cover cages with dark cloth, either top or all the way around. A pro crayfish catcher left cameras underwater to wonder why he didn't get much, saw them all around his traps but wouldn't go in because they felt unsafe. Got the idea to cover traps with dark cloth, then his catch tripled. The crayfish felt safe like they are going under rocks.
I ate crawfish for the 1st time last year when my son and I did Fly fishing a Boy Scout Summer camp. And I couldn't believe how good they tasted. Your making my mouth water.
I am always stopped dead in my tracks when you post something. I had to literally force myself to GET UP and put laundry in, first. RESUMING: This went so fast. Nooooo, Joe, I hated to see it end. Your videos are just so satisfying>>>>watching you do everyday stuff. See you at the boil. thanks for the upload.
Joe: We add the potatoes at the beginning. We just got done doing a boil and added carrots with the potatoes and have now added mushrooms to the mix. My mom is from Jennings, LA. so I had fond memories of the Cajun fish boils. (she was Cajun). Really like your videos. Greetings from the Arrowhead.
Great catch Joe! Melissa will be happy! Would make some good Po Boy sandwiches! I had the best ones at K-Pauls Louisiana Kitchen! Best time in New Orleans!
Really enjoy your videos Joe. I live in north Arkansas now, my wife is a Cajun from Jeanerette, La. Your boil looks like ours except I don't see any onions.
Maybe I've just watched WAY to many episodes of *"Swamp People"*, but I found myself cringing each trip into and out of the river bank...and reaching into the water to retrieve your traps. LOL
Joe, I thought about you this week. I was watching a program on PBS about the anniversary of going to the Moon. This program showed the early days when they were sending men to the edge of Space in balloons. The place they launched the balloons was two hours North of Minneapolis. Which sounded like pretty close to y'all s farm house. So, I thought it was cool as much as you like Star Trek, the real Space race started practically in your own back yard.
I tried SOOOOO hard to watch that show on PBS but the channel kept pixeling out and freezing (I just have an antenna on top of the house roof, no cable or dish). I wanted to watch that show. I instead watched a show on one of the other PBS stations on a man named "Bobby Aro". I remember hearing him as an announcer on the radio station WEVE when we would go up to the folks log cabin years ago. It was still very interesting to watch but I waited all week for the space show. Two hours north of the cities puts you pretty close to the farmhouse area for sure.
never have set a crawdad trap, but had a few meals of them. Always seemed like structure was the key. Find a place with a lot of rocks or concrete in the water. They'll be hiding, waiting for some liver. Kids have had a blast catching them! Can fill a plastic shopping bag with as much as you want to carry in it, fairly fast.
Oh is that what it is called. I saw many years ago some old timer taking about soaking/purging in milk for a spell. He said it made them even better for eating.
Joe, been watching for a long time. I really enjoy your videos!! I noticed something while watching and had to commit. Just a suggestion from someone who spends a lot of time in the woods of Alabama, invest in some snake boots!! I saw you had sneakers on and had to send a message. In that thick grass and downed trees you can never know where a poisonous serpent may be lingering!! Anyway, thanks for sharing your adventures!! David
I do have boots when I am in Louisiana but up here in Minnesota we have no poison snakes and no poison spiders. I still could have used boots though because of the mud. Thank You David.
Thanks for the video man! Do you notice a taste difference between the crayfish here and in Louisiana? I've been wanting to try mudbuggin up north at my place. Also can you get the traps locally or just order them online? Can't wait for the boil video!
@@davidharris6581 Hmm, I'll have to figure out which is more important. Catching the crayfish or eating the bacon myself. That might be a tough call! 😜
Is this on the Rum? 😶 Have you ever gone after any of the Northern Watershed bugs? It would be cool to do a side-by-side taste test. Also, maybe, take Melissa Smelting, now that they’ve got a season again. 👍🏻❤️
Great video mr joe, I can only imagine how many comments you're gonna get about animal cruelty and other nonsense. Not cruelty if they're delicious, at least that's my take. Cheers
What a haul! I wonder if those flooding rains help with the count taken. When you go back take your fishing pole. I bet there a good fish running in that fast current. Have you or Melissa ever heard about soaking craws and shrimp in milk. That it cleans out the digestive track and they taste better? Please let me know you info on that subject.
Where I come from in Western Australia they are called gilgies(jill-gees, with a hard ‘g’ as in goose) or koonaks(koo-naks) and our larger freshwater crustaceans, which are like a freshwater crayfish/lobster are called marron.(ma-ron, the ‘a’ sound as in apple.) I reckon they’d be comparable to your mudbugs for size and probably taste.
Just curious Joe, is there a difference in taste of crawfish between Minnesota and Louisiana. I’ve never had them, always wanted to try, but have a shell fish allergy. Get violently ill. But might be worth it. 😂 I used to luv shrimp before my allergy started. Ever since the doctors rearranged my guts, I haven’t been able to eat she’ll fish. 🤨🤔😡
There is a little bit of a difference. The "meat" tastes the same but the southern fatty part is yellow and sweeter than the northern fatty part which is green.
Chicken liver works well. Deer liver also. If you can catch a fish in the same body of water (so you are legal) you are trapping and you kill it and put it in the trap your results (if the Crayfish are there) will be amazing.... If not, there are not many Mudbugs in that body of water.
In Louisiana they tend to always be in non moving water and up here in Minnesota I have only caught them in moving water. I will be doing a "Crayfishing the north" video in a few weeks and I will be doing it in a lake. We will see how that turns out.
Joe why not keep in container with fresh water and cover the lid. Normally these sort of fresh alive shellfish.. they can last few days in the water. In fact soak in a fresh water help to purge the muddy taste ... In far east they normally let the river fishes etc in a fresh clean water.. for few days to remove earthy taste. Thanks
They die if you keep them in water for any period of time unless you have an aerator and a big tank. I had to transport these up to the farmhouse and I needed them put to sleep. When you order live crawfish online to be delivered, they basically do just what you saw me do for transporting. Watch the follow up video I am uploading now on the Northern Seclusion channel. You will see that they made it very well. I think I only had 2 dead ones.
WOWSERS that is definitely the best I've seen you do for sure haha. I think you caught all of them this time Joe, you might have to wait a couple of months for them to reproduce some more haha. That's gonna be one heck of a boil. Melissa haha ask and you shall receive...... I really hope the best on the Louisiana house, hopefully it didn't do much damage. If you look up on RU-vid (Live Storms Media) they have hundreds well maybe not hundreds but they have a lot of coverage of the Louisiana part of it and they have shown a lot of places that look close to where you've been it looks like in your past videos but I'm not sure cause respectfully I don't want to know the exact location haha. But hopeful it wasn't your guys family or property. Anyway enjoy the boil you two and thanks for the update.
The house is fine, that area did not get a whole lot of rain. When I post the next "farmhouse" video on the Northern Seclusion channel I actually talk about what was and did happen down there. It will be a couple of days before I get that video posted but stay tuned. Thank you.
Hello, keep up the great content! I have some question about regulations for trapping crayfish, do you have to buy a tag for the trap or mark your trap in any way ???
I mainly used deer and chicken liver this time. I had some old cooked fish in the mix also. I just kept putting stuff in bags all winter so it was a variety in each trap.
