How to Catch Crawfish (UNDERWATER GoPro View!)

This is a step by step video on how to catch crawfish/crayfish (and what to do once you get them home)! Tons of people love crawfish for bait or for eating, but you have to catch them first! I hope this was a helpful guide on how to trap them! Let me know in the comments below!

The Gee's G-40 Minnow traps can be bought on Amazon or at Walmart and they cost about $15 each. For the average person they should work great. If you want to find out if crawfish can escape traps check out this video I made:

Link to buy the traps I used in this video:

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[HPDrifter]

Finally! A quick-moving fishing video that doesn't feature a shot of some guy standing and talking. Slowly. Droning on and on and on...

Very well done.

[nateitscake]

Finally someone who knows how to properly clean and purge mudbugs. I cringe every time i hear or see somebody use salt to make them throw up.

[Huntress]

Great video! Straight to the point and very well explained. I've never done this, but maybe now I can :)

[caseycool]

Wow this was the best video I’ve seen on here... I love learning and seeing how things are done and this was perfect.

My one question is... when you go through the process of cleaning them for that long does that kill off more of them?

[bigton]

Crazy how much gunk comes off and inside them. Thanks for the info

[beetelgeuse]

Used to catch em using a bucket and a the bucket behind a rock turn rock over and stab the stick into the ground on the opposite site and they will swim right into the bucket

[Kwiyagat]

I have this bird cage looks like those traps, I got a idea.

[benjaminhawthorne]

Excellent video!
I ordered a trap on Amazon. When I was a boy, I would get barefoot, walk through the creek in my neighborhood and hurt grab crayfish with my bare hands. I could have the bottom of a bucket covered in an hour, but a trap is going to save me a lot of walking. I am going to get a pet cat and I love sardines. So, I think the first baits I will try in my Crawdad trap are semi- moist cat food (that comes in a pouch) and sardines in oil.

I want the crayfish for a "natural" fish tank that I am creating that will not have the typical "tropical fish, " but fish representative of the lakes around me, here in Northern Illinois. In college, I caught a small bluegill on a rod and reel and kept it in a 10 gal. tank in my apt. for years.
This tank will have a pea gravel bottom, rocks from the beaches of Lake Michigan, live freshwater plants, crayfish, plecostomus, Google eyed goldfish and minnows.

I am interested in eating some of the larger Crawdads that I catch. I'm assuming that you only eat the tail. Could you post your favorite recipe. We have a New Orleans style restaurant here in Chicago land called "Crawdaddy Bayou." I had the crowded tails in white sauce with cheese over linguine and it was fantastic. That with some garlic bread and a panettone Ribbon beer = heaven! 😉

[jamiebaynes]

Great video: I wish you still made more like these with the crawfish and underwater activity.

[thecosmickat]

amazing stuff keep up the good work brother I've seen a lot of people frying right out of the creek it's good to know a way to clean them up like that, very good stuff man.

[willgardam]

watched your squid video and absolutely loved it, the channels like this deserve more recognition! Keep up the good work - from Australia

[Skidly_Finley]

Wow thanks brother. Just stumbled on this video. I've been dying to try crawfish. Didnt realize the amount of stuff that comes off and out of them. Thanks for the great tip. I'm heading out tomorrow. Folks from canada / southern Ontario say thank you.

[dougimlach]

Wow soo many that's a really good example of a healthy fishery in your own back yard ! I wish I was a kid growing up in your part of the world I'd love it .

[dickfitswell]

Cool vid. You should try half a slab of bacon in there. You'll catch millions. In my area on the gulf, Bacon is the Heroin for Crawdaddys.

[countrydirtkid]

I put a wire loop on the top of my southbend trap so that a little tension on the rope makes the trap land right side up. Good channel btw I plan on watching all of your vids. You have good content and watchable videos but low views unfortunately. Keep up the good work. A lot of people watch this stuff they just don’t know this channel

[brap]

your two go pro videos on crawfish are great. Good detailed narration.

[chriskorzen]

Great video sir! Simple, informative but definitely watchable! I’m a subscriber!

[davidstorton]

I have the same traps here in the UK, only bought them about a couple of months ago, going to give them a go this summer

[saltlifegull]

WOW, that was exciting as heck to watch! I want some for my outdoor ponds. Thanks! Subscriber from Florida.

[MurakumoVance]

If you are one of the people responsible for the glorious supply of crawfish at my local store here in NY, I just want to say god bless you sir!
I never really ate them because my entire family in Arkansas couldn't get over their bug like appearance. Despite that, I just kept hearing people say they tasted so good!
So after trying some "Long John Silvers" and finding out that I absolutely LOVE shrimp, and also finding out that I love sushi, I figured I may like crawfish too.
I must admit that I was originally put off by their look just like the rest of my family, but after I tore into my first few (very messy with no sense of technique) WOW the feast I was missing all that time. I regularly purchase these things now from my local store and even include them in my weight gain diet. They are absolutely superb!