The Best Bait to Catch Crayfish! (Trapping Experiment!)

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Hint: cover cages with dark cloth, either top or all the way around. A pro crayfish catcher left cameras underwater, wondered why he didn't get much, saw them all around his traps but wouldn't go in because they felt unsafe from predators above. Got the idea to cover top of traps with dark cloth, then his catch tripled. The crayfish felt safe like they are going under rocks.

My four yr old son loves the crayfish hiding in the cucumber! He loves to eat cucumbers himself. Thank you for making his day. He asks to see this video often. “The herring is loaded” loves repeating your words!! Thank you for keeping it family friendly.

He found a crayfish literally chilling like a cucumber 🤣

Fresh caught bluegill is the best bait I have used. Catch a blue hill, slit its throat and put it in the trap. Leave for about 30 hours and your trap will be so full its hard to pull out.

Old/cheapest and one of the best ways to attract crawfish is small net bags with cut garlic. You will put couple of bags and they love it! You can reuse them as well! Great video BTW!

"theres always a fishing line in these fish, makes no sense to me" -throws fish with line back in water Lol

I was routing for the herring. They are stinky. In my state 50 is the daily limit to keep. Also, your traps are what we used to use as minnow traps. A little bread and come back the next day and we had bait for the whole day. I still see this style trap around. I'll have to check our regulations in my state on catching crawfish. We aren't allowed to catch fresh water mussels or clams anymore. I've got some interesting places around me for catching crawfish next spring. I'll stock our pond with them for the bass. Thanks for the video. Very informative.

Catfish food nuff said! Either Fancy Feast or Frisky's. Fancy Feast with gravy got me 1,000 in 1 hour. :) Nice video and those oily fish definitely smell from miles away. Great choices.

I don't know if anyone else said already but using cucumber as bait might be good for pre cleaning them because if they're eating that it might speed up digestion and make it faster to clean and purge them

10:21 "Hungry little critters" sounds like fishing Jack Black

I absolutely love the experemental aspect of crawhunting on your channel! It's incredibly informative! You have a new subscriber. 😁

Makrell is delicious food, I wouldn't waste them as bait :) I use anything from boiled potatoes to any whitefish in my pond when i trap crayfish.

For convenience, I usually use cat food, but I remember being in Australia about 25 years ago on a farm that we rented that was well away from civilisation. We found a trap and thought we would try catching some Yabbies (Australian for crayfish) in the dam (Australian for farm pond). I recall the first thing we tried was a bit of bacon. We caught three yabbies. Then we tried some tinned sardines that we found, and caught a bucketload. Sadly, in that part of Australia, they yabbies were really quite small. I prefer the American invaders here in the UK which can be huge.

Thanks for teaching me in a old school country boy way I appreciate it keep up the good work man

so my three year old daughter was like "Dad... that guy don't got a clue! use cat food for catfish and crayons for crayfish duh!"

The spleen from cattle is good. It is also known as melt. Almost any kind of fish also works well.

Creek chub works good too. It's oily like mackeral and herring.

Caught 3 crawfish my first use.1 Can of catfood caught 3 healthy crawfish. Very sturdy trap. Quickly becoming my favorite trap.

Hello from Vermont - thank you for the helpful info! I got one for you: Bananas. Sounds crazy but there is a Crawfishing organization in England that did an experiment and their traps were loaded. Who knew?