OFF TOPIC (crawfish)

Great thread

Hilton Head - unofficial shark bite capital of the world.

The good news is my trap was undisturbed last night and was right where I left it the night before. The bad news is, unfortunately, it was undisturbed by any crawfish as well.

Back to the drawing board tonight. Trying a new spot and hopefully have some herring to try for bait if I can get to LW in time. Used bait binder last night. Also,going to look into a flat bottom type trap instead of this minnow type trap.

Justin, may stop by sometime and check your homemade design.

The real kicker is I stopped by the boat ramp to get some water to mix up the binder and there was 3 crawfish sitting on the boat ramp. 2 smaller ones and this one. Really cant tell by the pic, but he was a monsta.

'07 198 DLX Carolina Skiff
DF90 Suzuki

I was appraising a house today on the lake that had a pool. I looked in the pool and there were 2 nice ones that I dipped out.

TEAM HARD OF HERRING

1991 Scout 172
2006 Yamaha 90

Has anyone tried fishing for stripers with them? In the summer months I catch a lot of hybrids and stripers at Clarks Hill that will puke them up. I release most of my fish so I haven’t been able to check many fish’s stomachs lately. I know a guy that cleaned a few stripers from a local tailrace and they were completely full of crawfish. I’ve read on Clarks Hill that the stripers come up to the edge of the hydilla at night and feed on the crawfish really heavily. I have always been curious how you would do fishing a live one but I’m not sure exactly how I would present it. I assume anchoring and throwing it out on the bottom would be most natural. But you would think if the stripers are really crushing them that the bass guys would catch an occasional striper dragging a jig-n-pig on the deeper humps but I have never heard of that happening.

I won’t keep a river fish these days, but years ago, when I would, stripers from the saluda would be loaded with them.

I don’t know that I would go through the effort to try them on Murray for stripers, but I would love to throw one out in hopes for a big bass. Never did it, but a buddy who has fished them said he puts a small rubber band around the body and then places a small treble hook between the body and the rubber band. That way you never have to put the hook into the crawfish.

'07 198 DLX Carolina Skiff
DF90 Suzuki

This whole thread needs to disappear! :smiley:

“All fisherman lie. And if they say otherwise, then they’re lying”

“Sea~N~Stripes”
21’ Hewes Craft Custom
140 Suzuki

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Originally posted by Murrymaker

This whole thread needs to disappear! :smiley:

“All fisherman lie. And if they say otherwise, then they’re lying”

“Sea~N~Stripes”
21’ Hewes Craft Custom
140 Suzuki


It seems like we have found someone’s secret bait!

We just scoop them up on the beaches. When they are spawning I guess. Not sure why they come out of the lake. Anchor just outside the grass lines and fish them on the bottom. #128522; enjoy.

Buddy caught a 37 that puked them all over his boat.

That “monsta” scared you a little:stuck_out_tongue: