Almost 8 years since I’ve watched all your catching videos and I still go back and watch them because I’m jealous haha

I'm in Idaho. Here we call them crawdads - seems to be the common term, but I have heard crayfish used too. The river you were fishing looks just like our river here flowing through town, the water is high in the spring due to mountain snow run-off and evens out as summer drags on. I am going to try your traps here, it looks more productive than my method which is simply wading out into the river with a pair of salad tongs and a bucket and just snatching them up, which does work - but work is the key word - its a lot of it. But then, so is fixing up a batch too. The way I fix them is as follows. Boil your catch. Set them out to cool somewhat. Shell the tails - pull the vein and lay them out on a well buttered cookie sheet. Then brush the meat with garlic butter and lemon. (Lemon optional). Then light-to-moderately sprinkle them with powdered ranch dressing mix - just the powder - don't mix up a batch of dressing - just sprinkle the powder on them. You want enough butter on them so the powder gets wet with butter. Then you stick them in the oven and broil @ 350 until the tops turn just a little bit golden and pull them out. While they're hot sprinkle Parmesan cheese on them. Serve with a personal bowl of garlic butter & lemon. - Try it sometime. Its really good. Me, I am going to try your traps! Thanks for the great videos.

Look fun plus there so big 👏👏 i guess i need to come down there and trap some crayfish

Wow I loved this

Love this video thanks for sharing

I absolutely love all of your videos. Your very informative and multi talented.

Great Video thanks

I enjoyed watching your videos thank you for sharing.

Enjoyed, thanks for sharing...

i seriously watched the whole thing. this was so entertaining! lol. i appreciate you filming this, especially on the day that you were alone.

Wow that's awesome!

Well, you did VERY good! Nice job!!! Can't wait to see the boil

trapping crayfish is on my bucket list

Greetings from Latvia! I love crayfish fishing. Here in Latvia we usually are trapping them by night so I'm quite surprised seeing you catching them by day, Depending on the place 200 crayfish are like maximum quantity in one catching time. It would be like a miracle for me to catch two hundred crayfish just in about an hour! Sadly our crayfish has poor size, not like yours.

Joe I have to celebrate , It took me 3 yrs of asking but they ran it thru the head office , I asked Fish and game if it would be alright if we used jugs for fishing , And if we could trap Crays ,Nope Nope Nope -- This year they said Yes Jugs no more than 30 Meters away from the boat , And we can finally catch crays using a seign , fish trap , by hand , or on the hook . I love it now we get to taste what you guys get to enjoy , I just made my first trap I think I did pretty good too .

Hi from Southern Germany! Excellent video! I look forward to more.

Craw fish are mainly nocturnal and if you get fortunate enough to catch them in the day, it is either overcast or you put your pot in a shaded area. This is why you didn't catch many when you came back 7 hours later to check your traps and it was done in the middle of the day. The times you caught the most is when you left the traps out overnight. Thanks for the video and info. God Bless

Awesome catch Joe. Great to see the kids get involved too. Love all your vids. Can't wait to see the boil.

These guys who are stealing his crawfish are lucky that he is nice.

Thank you for all the tips & tricks! Godspeed gentlemen.

Thanks TJ. I purge them with salt and clean water, I have a video on how to purge and boil them, or I should say how I do it, I have had many comments on differerent methods and I appreciate them so thank you for telling me how you do it. They are very delicious once cooked up. Thanks again. Joe

I really like these "homespun adventure" type videos. That was fun to watch. If ya ever make it down here to the Gulf, visit the FloraBama lounge near Perdido. Best Crawfish within 150 miles.

So much fun. I used to do this for hours when I was a kid at my dads camp in PA. I still do it ever spring during trout season. Love it.

I love the Crawfish Videos

I had a great time watching this video thanks for keeping it clean.

what great info from good hearted people !! happy new year !!

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Thanks for this video. enjoyed it and I can go get some mudbugs now.

Nice. I used to use a string when I was a kid. Loved it.

We just use feed pellets for chickens in a nylon stocking, tied to the centre of the net. Cast out and left for ten minutes and retrieved full of freshwater crayfish. Typical size is 1ft to 2ft. I did enjoy your adventure out to the river. Cooking here is boiling water with a tablespoon of 'brown sugar'

Very nice and thanks for sharing!

Looking good Joe. I really like your helpers too. You know me..never like to see an animal/fish parts wasted. Thanks for finding a use for those livers. Thanks for sharing with us my friend. Peace.

great video, thanks for sharing. had a great time watching

I enjoy the mudbuggin vids. Good catch!! I do hope whoever messed with your traps were hungry and really needed them, but thrilled you ended up with so many in the end.

Wow! I love your videos! So exciting!!!

I always use dark chord and keep it hidden very well. You can still tag it but make sure everything is hidden from plain sight. Goodluck from Louisiana!!

So awesome that you live in a place where the rivers are unspoiled and have life in them. Here in MD we used to have crawfish/crayfish but due to poultry farm and regular farm run-offs our waterways are ruined. :( Awesome videos, keep up the good work!

Great video. Being a northerner from upstate New York I haven’t eaten crawfish but they looked good.

awesome video thanks for this

every prepper should make one of these traps....thank you for video!

Great video =)

You got the bug for mudbugs :) great videos, thank you!

I'm really enjoying these videos. Hopefully I can gather the material and give this a shot. Thanks for posting!

Great video, thanks! I'm in Pa, and I'm going to start exploring some of our creeks for crawfish. I remember finding them all the time as a kid.

Thanks a lot for uploading Joe!

good effort.good income.good things to be serve on the table too.thanks for sharing.we enjoy watching very much since iam just like you over here in malaysia.

Thanks Joe and Zach

i do not know why...but this is very satisfying...

Amazing catch!!!!

In the PNW I bait with canned salmon and check my traps every hour or so. Usually get a good 15 or so every pull but ours are quite a big bigger (especially the claws.) Good video!

i hate people who pouch on others traps, ty for the video

Such a cool video, love trapping craws.

Wow, awesome catch! Can't wait to see the boil! I had my first louisiana boil last weekend and it was DELICIOUS!

You're the best youtuber ever.

Wow, excellent 3 days, especially with the high water. I never even thought of using deer liver before. I usually give mine away as I don't care for the taste. I imagine it would make good catfish bait too. I can't wait to see the boil. Jeff

hai ... nice video. i wish there are cray fish in my country.... look very fun.

It's interesting seeing different ways people catch Crayfish/Crawfish.

Great video. Here in Australia we call them yabbies. Our freshwater Murray Crayfish are enormous. Now I know why people always comment asking what yabbies are on my videos. Hahaha

very cool. Thanks for sharing

Great 3 day catch looking forward to your first mudbug boil an feast of 2013 !!!

Love this vid

hey Joe, I am very excited to see more Mudbuggin vids. I actually went crawfishin about a week ago again and didn't do to bad. But unfortunately, one time when I went to check them, one trap was already pulled onto the bank too. I was pretty mad but nextime I hid the rope a little better. so yeah, Great video.

ty for sharing nice advanture

Dayumm I Love These Videos!! Keep Producing These Great Video Dawg!!!

I really enjoyed watching your adventures. We actually have these mud bugs in Albuquerque. AND, I have actually seen a couple young teenagers scooping these things out of a canal. They EASILY had half a bucket-full.

Wow! Great job, keep it up! Im definitely going to try some out in my rivers

Videos are great I like the tips and tricks

Love your video's I'm gonna start trapping minnows this year may trap crayfish too

people really need to leave others stuff alone

Cannot wait for ur next video!

Nice video. Nice crayfish. And nice northern pike. That pike would've taste good if you could've kept it. I would love to try crayfish and i think i would love it because i like to eat crab

There seems to be a common correlation between crayfishermen and half finished houses.

great video

WOW! that is a lot of crawdads. makes me want to try it out

8:31 LOL @ that crawfish trying to grab on to the trap

OUTSTANDING!

You may be a yankee but brother - I like your style and tenaciousness. If there were more like you that made the laws I might move up north / east. (might) your still in the cool book bro!

This was so fun to watch :-) reminds me of catching Yabbies in Australia or fresh water crayfish!

really love your video sir.. nice work

Anyone else think that pike had a belly full of crawdads?

607?? Sounds like a fish story... lol great haul... making me wish more that may 5th will hurry n get here so I can get mud buggin..

I haven't watched a video of yours that I didn't like! Watching this put me in the spring/summer mood i am going to put some traps together soon.

I love catching cray fish it is so fun dude

Looks like fun

nice movie joe and zach ;)

You should put a ruck in there so it doesn't come to the shallow water. Great video.

wow amzing ilove it..

awesome joe..you did better this year than last year..now I want eat some..

Nice looking crayfish can't eat around spokane supposed to not eat due to chemicals in river over the years.I miss the great ones as a kid around Elko nevada.

Waiting for you to do this again was very suspenful by the way n was very nice video including ur crawdad boil yummy

I use #12 trot line twine for my rope on my craw traps. It is very thin but strong, and it's a dark color. I tie it twards the bottom of the tree so no one can see it. Take that to consideration when I've never had a trap pulled, or stolen on the highly populated lake I'm on. :)

What a good haul. Waiting for the boil video and wishing I could share.

This is so much fun!!!!!

Awesome. Wish I could have caught just 1 crayfish in the 2 trips I've gone out. But I think it's due to the opening size I'm restricted to have. Nicely done, and length of the MOVIE doesn't matter. lol. Keep it up and can't wait to see the boil.

Nice video !

great video Joe, i like the longer vids!

Liver is great crayfish bait because it is full of blood and the blood diffuses through the water attracting the crayfish from all around.

You got some serious Hogging out to do , Lucky nice catch .

I don't know what the law is where you are about setting traps like yours. But. If I was having a problem with people stealing from them I would Label the trap but it would be in a water proof container like a zip lock and taped to a stake and hidden along with the rope under the water so you are the only person that knows where it is. Good luck. Jim from Erie, Pa.

I love your videos 🔥