Mud bugs

[SOLANCO]

Parchman Farm (Mississippi State Prison) is in Sunflower County, you weren’t………naw.

LOL! Nope. Just visiting catfish farmers and processors.

 

[jim mencken]

It's my son's 25th birthday so we all went to the lake last night and caught a mess of crawdads. We get some decent sized ones in Colorado. Good day so far. Cast some .454 for the revolver,purging crawdads and getting ready for the cookout View attachment 240438

the very best , in Mohave desert they are hard to find .the only seafood house has them for $20.a pound

 

[SOLANCO]

the very best , in Mohave desert they are hard to find .the only seafood house has them for $20.a pound

A pound? Live weight? That is not even a generous appetizer!

 

[jim mencken]

A pound? Live weight? That is not even a generous appetizer!

had dinner there last night that was the price and they were small .need to move back to Florida HA

 

[Thingamajiggy]

Nice catch! Here in PA, especially along the susky, we can find them everywhere but i've never eaten one. Most are small, have heard and seen crawfish boils but never tried it. Grew up on Jersey coast eating crabs though so not sure why I never did?

 

[Rifleman1776]

Mudbugs. Up nawth they are called crawdads, down south crawfish or crayfish. But, anyplace they are great eating. They sell by the tons in southern Louisiana.
There is a spot not many miles from where I live in north-central Arkansas that has some that are super huge, almost small lobsters. I'm not saying exactly where (I know). They are endangered and Federally protected.

 

[Dwight Harley]

Made a purge bucket yesterday also.

That purge bucket is darn clever!

 

[BackDraft]

There is a spot not many miles from where I live in north-central Arkansas that has some that are super huge, almost small lobsters. I'm not saying exactly where (I know).

I’ve got a few spots that will give me a trap so full, it looks like I deliberately stuffed it for a photo op. I don’t reveal my locations either. I just tell people that I think it’s best to stay upstream from the wastewater plant discharge. I don’t tell them that I don’t even fish that waterway at all.

 

[SOLANCO]

Nice catch! Here in PA, especially along the susky, we can find them everywhere but i've never eaten one. Most are small, have heard and seen crawfish boils but never tried it. Grew up on Jersey coast eating crabs though so not sure why I never did?

Love blue crab. As achild, we would trap them all week long and save them in an underwater cage for visiting family on weekends.
Many years later I just buy the picked meat when I have a taste for it. That or soft crabs. Eating a hard shell blue crab is labor intensive.

 

[ajf55]

I love me some crawdads, but what is a purge bucket?

 

[montezuma]

I love me some crawdads, but what is a purge bucket?

Just washes the mud out of them. Makes them taste better.

 

[ajf55]

Do you put anything in it other than water and how long?

 

[montezuma]

Do you put anything in it other than water and how long?

Just use water and let it cycle till the water is clean.

 

[BackDraft]

I use a large cooler filled with filtered creek water and then use a bait bubbler to keep the water oxygenated. When I run my traps, I do about a dozen trap-fulls. No body likes except me, so I do the equivalent of a huge boil and freeze most. I only need to do this a few times a year. What I plan to freeze, I boil in plain water then get‘em on ice. Pick the meat and package to freeze. When I’m ready for a frozen batch, I set up a small boil, get all the seasonings in, and bring to a boil. Toss in the frozen batch and kill the heat. By the time 15-20 minutes has rolled around, their hot and perfectly flavored.

 

[montezuma]

I use a large cooler filled with filtered creek water and then use a bait bubbler to keep the water oxygenated. When I run my traps, I do about a dozen trap-fulls. No body likes except me, so I do the equivalent of a huge boil and freeze most. I only need to do this a few times a year. What I plan to freeze, I boil in plain water then get‘em on ice. Pick the meat and package to freeze. When I’m ready for a frozen batch, I set up a small boil, get all the seasonings in, and bring to a boil. Toss in the frozen batch and kill the heat. By the time 15-20 minutes has rolled around, their hot and perfectly flavore

I use a large cooler filled with filtered creek water and then use a bait bubbler to keep the water oxygenated. When I run my traps, I do about a dozen trap-fulls. No body likes except me, so I do the equivalent of a huge boil and freeze most. I only need to do this a few times a year. What I plan to freeze, I boil in plain water then get‘em on ice. Pick the meat and package to freeze. When I’m ready for a frozen batch, I set up a small boil, get all the seasonings in, and bring to a boil. Toss in the frozen batch and kill the heat. By the time 15-20 minutes has rolled around, their hot and perfectly flavored.

I think I'll start doing that. My daughter and I peeled the left overs tonight and chilled them and ate them with cocktail sauce. I think they have more fat than shrimp.