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trlcavscout
11-02-2013, 19:50
15 potatoes, 16 ears of corn, 10 andouille sausage, 2# of craw fish, 3# of shrimp, 3# of crab legs and hush puppies. Had my dad over, me the wife and 2 kids we only ate about half haha. I used zatarans liquid and spice bags and some spice the crawfish came with. Made my own cocktail sauce and all. Turned out really good and I have lunch tomorrow. Only thing I have to change is the sausage was to spicy for the daughter, need to try a different brand next time.
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Inconel710
11-02-2013, 19:54
My wife says we're on our way! :)
Where'd you get the crawfish? Was it the frozen Chinese stuff?
trlcavscout
11-02-2013, 19:56
My wife says we're on our way! :)
Where'd you get the crawfish? Was it the frozen Chinese stuff?
I used the frozen whole craws this time. Boudreaux's from wall mart. They weren't to bad for frozen! I have some traps though so going forward I will be using fresh.
Inconel710
11-02-2013, 20:00
You're still trapping crawfish in this weather?! Things I wish I'd known a few years ago. We go back to visit my wife's family in Louisiana every year and eat pounds of the stuff to hold us over until the next trip.
Tinelement
11-02-2013, 20:25
That looks amazing, except the crab would kill me!
trlcavscout
11-02-2013, 20:37
You're still trapping crawfish in this weather?! Things I wish I'd known a few years ago. We go back to visit my wife's family in Louisiana every year and eat pounds of the stuff to hold us over until the next trip.
I haven't caught them since I lived in Arizona, but I was talking to a friend that does it year round here even on the ice when he is ice fishing. So I went and bought some new traps to give it a whirl.
trlcavscout
11-02-2013, 20:41
Cocktail sauce, the wife always just mixed ketchup and horseradish but I found a YouTube video of a guy useing ketchup, HR, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce (I used the extra hot HR) it wasn't that hot even when adding more HR, it was pretty good though. Any other ideas for sauce?
You can cats lots of crawfish here. Very people people like the idea of eating them if they know they can eat them in the first place. Even fewer trap them.
every time we camp t a lake I have a trap in the water and it is almost always full.
trlcavscout
11-02-2013, 20:57
You can cats lots of crawfish here. Very people people like the idea of eating them if they know they can eat them in the first place. Even fewer trap them.
every time we camp t a lake I have a trap in the water and it is almost always full.
I was just reading the regulations, it says your traps have to be tagged here, what is the best way to tag them?
Goodburbon
11-02-2013, 21:09
Cocktail sauce, the wife always just mixed ketchup and horseradish but I found a YouTube video of a guy useing ketchup, HR, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce (I used the extra hot HR) it wasn't that hot even when adding more HR, it was pretty good though. Any other ideas for sauce?
Everyone comes up with their own to suit their tastes.
I use ketchup, covered with creole seasoning till you can barely see ketchup. Stir it in and mix in Cajun power garlic sauce to taste roughly 2:1 ketchup to garlic sauce.
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I caught about 8 lbs by hand last July for the 4th. Took all night. I only caught 11 in the trap. Not sure what I was doing wrong.
Great-Kazoo
11-03-2013, 15:06
Cocktail sauce, the wife always just mixed ketchup and horseradish but I found a YouTube video of a guy useing ketchup, HR, lemon juice, Worcestershire sauce (I used the extra hot HR) it wasn't that hot even when adding more HR, it was pretty good though. Any other ideas for sauce?
Add some crushed or chopped garlic, red pepper flakes, lemon juice AND flavor to taste, with sweet baby rays bbq sauce. I usually add 1 tbsp. If not bbq, use adobo chili powder. The red pepper flakes give it some zing.
To really appreciate the coctail sauce you should mix it a few hrs before, this way the individual flavors have time to blend.
I do the same thing but more of a Low Country Boil & use fresh shrimp instead of crawfish. It's just easier for most people to eat and not everyone like eating crawfish. Skrimps are yummers too.
Add some crushed or chopped garlic, red pepper flakes, lemon juice AND flavor to taste, with sweet baby rays bbq sauce. I usually add 1 tbsp. If not bbq, use adobo chili powder. The red pepper flakes give it some zing.
To really appreciate the coctail sauce you should mix it a few hrs before, this way the individual flavors have time to blend.
Sweet Baby Ray's Sweet & Spicy FTW!
Great-Kazoo
11-03-2013, 15:15
Sweet Baby Ray's Sweet & Spicy FTW!
Need i say more.
I was just reading the regulations, it says your traps have to be tagged here, what is the best way to tag them?
?? no idea, never tagged them. maybe you just have to have your name on them?
I caught about 8 lbs by hand last July for the 4th. Took all night. I only caught 11 in the trap. Not sure what I was doing wrong.
what kind of bait did you put in it? and what kind of trap was it?
either the bait wasn't attracting them, or if it did, they figured a way out.
Great-Kazoo
11-03-2013, 19:14
Nope!!
thought you were working nights.
I was just reading the regulations, it says your traps have to be tagged here, what is the best way to tag them?
hard to tell if that is for commercial use. thats the way i read it. but to be on the safe side I guess I will tag them. name, address and license number. I made my own traps out of 5 gallon buckets, so i can just write it with permanent marker on the white bucket. i guess you could get a waterproof tag or a laminated tag with the info on it and attach it to the handle or somewhere like you would a roller bag for traveling.
what kind of bait did you put in it? and what kind of trap was it?
either the bait wasn't attracting them, or if it did, they figured a way out.
First I used chicken liver in a nylon bag. Then I noticed crawdads swarming a dead fish so I threw that in there too. I had two traps. Neither one with chicken liver caught anything until I put the dead fish in. Odd because if you threw liver in the water you could watch them come out to get it.
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