Crawfish bait
 

I have been crawfishing for a while and would like to try some new bait this year. So I am curious what everyone uses what works best etc....

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Pogie or shad. Artificial when it warns up.

Buffalo cut up in chunks or catfish heads. Also herron, pogie, or shad.

Sheephead

Illinois has crawfish? Correction that is crayfish for you yanks.

Big difference between crayfish and crawfish we have both.

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If you are serious, you are full of ****.

Really, water conditions dictate what type of bait used...temp, current, etc...

One piece of pogie and two pieces of artificial.

My father-in-law put out a minnow trap last year baited with bread and a leftover chicken leg. The creek we put the trap in turned out to be a honey hole for crayfish. He put the trap in a few more times using only bread and continued to catch them until the water level in the creek was too low to cover the trap.

Thanks for the info guys, now I was watchin a video and there was a guy using beef.....anyone heard of this?

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He's probably using beef melt. I believe it is pancreas of cow.

poggies with chunk bait

Beef melt!!! That's what every one I know uses

Beef melt works but they eat it to fast. If you are catching a bunch u need something that will stay in the trap. I helped a old craw fisherman one season he would put one piece of fish pogie or carp the two pieces of that hard artificial. He told me if u just put fish they will eat it to quick and start eating themselves.

Where is a good place to get artificial bait? I have never used it but heck I will try it
I never used catfish heads either but I will try them also
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Where is a good place around Lafayette to get some artificiall chunks I know some good bait fish spots I'd like to run some traps and catch my own crawfish around the basin area ?

Chastant's

This bait reminds me of cattle cake really. I'm not real sure where you'd find it in ill.

Well I would like to order some from la if there is a place that will ship it

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Purina makes one. Find a feedstore that carries Purina and have them order some for you.

X2. It looks like a range cube on steroids.

Thanks for the replies, one more question I have some areas this season that a single net trap would work good but I see there are the square traps and the round ones that collapse. Anyone have any info/experience with these style of traps?

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If you are going to recreational fish with drop nets, make some clips out of coat hangers and clip beef melt to the center so the crawfish don't walk off with the bait. The fish and artificial bait is normally used in wire traps.

Where in laffayette can pick up some square traps ? Twine place off of Cameron Street ?

Thanks for the reply I use wise traps but some areas they are a no go so I an ordering some meet traps tomorrow

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What are y'all callin square traps?

The regular pillow looking traps but they are square on the bottom and fold over at the top where you empty the crawfish out .

Maybe try www.crawfishcenter.com

You got it , I get 25 or so per pot now so hope I get a good amount in the new ones where I use them but I ain't greedy

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me either i just bought 12 traps and hope can manage a half sack or a sack out of the ones i bought