Big Crawfish in the Batture today

[charliepapa]

my son and his friend were baiting the catfish lines and dropped one net to see if the crawfish were there... this guy crawled in inside about 5 minutes, so they will be setting out the wire traps tomorrow.

 

[USMC-Deano]

Holy cow, that thing is enormous! Love to have a couple of those on the table in front of me.

 

[tbone]

That looks like a white river crawfish as opposed to the red swamp crawfish that is sold most often on the market. I've seen these things get huge. There used to be a market for them from Louisiana to Sweden. The largest ones were pickled and packaged one each in the pickling brine in a vacuum sealed bag and shipped to Sweden.

 

[Tulse Luper]

I'd put a saddle on it and ride it into battle.

 

[TRON]

Whoaaaaa one sack of those please!

 

[alto8345]

how do i post a picture.. i have a buddy that caught a big one and i'm trying to post the pic!

 

[charliepapa]

how do i post a picture.. i have a buddy that caught a big one and i'm trying to post the pic!

http://www.bayoushooter.com/forums/showthread.php?53061-Classified-Forums-Thread-and-Image-Posting-Tutorial

 

[Guate_shooter]

Dangggggggggggggg, thing is bigger than most sissy miniature dogs LOL

 

[alto8345]

 

[Ironman26]

not gonna get many of those in a sack!!!!!!

 

[MonarchC88]

Do you mind if I ask where you caught that bad boy?

 

[charliepapa]

Do you mind if I ask where you caught that bad boy?

pulled him out of the high water between the levee and the river near the plaquemine ferry.

 

[TomTerrific]

My friend Jay Huner is a zoologist specializing in crawfish. He taught at Southern and whatever USL is now. Knows his stuff.

He said the LSU Aquacenter would be very interested in having a specimen of this species as well as location where it was taken, etc.

PM me for details.

 

[highstandard40]

It just a White River Crayfish. I've caught many of those. LSU Ag Center website has page devoted to the difference in Red Swamp Crayfish and the White River Crayfish.

http://www.lsuagcenter.com/en/our_o...d+Swamp+Crawfish+and+White+River+Crawfish.htm

 

[pntbllr228]

Where are the claws? Dont river crawfish have claws?

 

[highstandard40]

Where are the claws? Dont river crawfish have claws?

All crawfish can loose there claws. Not unusual at all.

 

[TomTerrific]

Jay sent me this back:


TOM - WHILE I WAS DIRECTOR OF THE CRAWFISH RESEARCH CENTER, EVERYONE TOLD ME ABOUT THE HUGE CRAWFISH THEY'D FIND DURING MAJOR FLOOD EVENTS BUT NO ONE HAD ANY SPECIMEN. THAT'S WHY I SUGGESTED DOCUMENTING THE CRAWFISH. NOT SURE THERE WILL BE A LOT OF HARVESTABLE CRAWFISH ON THE BATTURE NOW BUT WHEN THE WATER GOES DOWN, PITS BETWEEN THE LEVEE AND THE CHANNEL OUGHT TO BE GOOD FOR CRAWFISH, AT LEAST IN SOME AREAS.

 

[honestlou]

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