Why learn how to catch crawfish? Well, whether you call them crawdads, crayfish, or mudbugs, crawfish are one of the most lethal live bait you can put on a fishing hook. Any decent smallmouth angler ...

Some folks love eating crawfish; others can’t bring themselves to taste something that looks so much like a bug. It’s been that way for centuries. Consider this passage from Wild Sports in the Far ...

As live bait goes, it’s hard to beat crawfish for trout, bass, catfish, and more—yet they are wildly underused. That’s because it’s rare to find them for sale in bait shops. There are no commercial ...

Some folks love eating crawfish; others can’t bring themselves to taste something that looks so much like a bug. It’s been that way for centuries. Consider this passage from Wild Sports in the Far ...

Did you ever go crawfish fishin’ in a crawfish hole? If not, well, you’ve missed out on a grand childhood activity. Maybe you know the crawfish as a crayfish, crawlfish, crawdad, crawdaddy or even mud ...

Crawfish, crayfish, crawdad, mudbug - hot boiled delicacy, fish bait or environmental quality indicator - call it you want; a crayfish is simply a freshwater crustacean and relative of the lobster. A ...

My biggest rainbow trout ever was taken on a live crayfish in the Little Lehigh during an early September morning some 30 years ago. As I recall, it went 23 inches. My wife’s biggest smallmouth bass ...

With Oregon’s warm weather upon us, so is the battle to figuring out how to enjoy it! An often-overlooked activity in Oregon – one that requires no fishing or shellfish license – is crawfishing. It’s ...

Things have gotten a little too cray-cray with an invasive species in Storm Lake, prompting the Iowa DNR to impose a new regulation on the Buena Vista County body of water. DNR Fisheries Invasive ...

Crawfish growers may look to the rain gauges or the temperature to forecast the supply end of the Louisiana harvest. But Jason Seither, who boils and sells tons of the mud bugs each year at his ...