Been doing a little checking on the lifecycle of the crawfish.  Watched a show recently that Rick Clunn advocated that if you wanted to catch more bass to learn the crawfish.  I prefer to smallie fish and in my neck of the woods the crawfish represents one of the main forage and at times it is the main forage.  I provided a link to a brochure on the crawfish that contains all kinds of useful information,  thought someone here could use the info too.

http://www.ca.uky.edu/wkrec/CrawfishBiologyHistory.pdf

Best way to utilize crawfish is to get a big pot; add water and bring to a boil; and Cajun spices, onions, corn and potatoes; place over a propane heater and add the mudbugs.

Cook for 10 minutes and serve hot with your favorite adult beverage or a Barq's root beer. 

I like to eat them too, I don't fish with live bait so I was looking for ways to work the paca.

Now I know why I get more bites when draggin a craw than hopping.

Crayfish by state.

http://iz.carnegiemnh.org/crayfish/country_pages/species_by_state.htm

Click on your state and study the crawdads colors and habits. Crawdads are a prime food source for bass.

WRB

WOW!

Tennessee has 77 different species!

;D ;D ;D

Thats a great link

Iowa only has a handful but they all shade to green and brown..only one has a redish...all my cranks are red craw!! 

Thats a great link

Iowa only has a handful but they all shade to green and brown..only one has a redish...all my cranks are red craw!!

Break out the C/Card.... the bait monkey is calling!  ;D

Outstanding information! We all need to learn everything we can about forage species. THANKS!

Thats a great link

Iowa only has a handful but they all shade to green and brown..only one has a redish...all my cranks are red craw!!

Break out the C/Card.... the bait monkey is calling! ;D

Banana breath rents a room at my place as it is.... ;D

Thank for the info...I read an article about fishing with craw fish awhile back...this guy took craw fish traps in what ever area he was in and dyed his lure to "match the hatch" so to speak.