Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Sat Nov 21, 2020 9:53 pm
Same here cudgee. Here they’re called crawdads, crawfish, crayfish and probably other names depending on region of the country. Very popular food in the south, usually boiled with corn, potatoes and spices. Lots of other recipes also. A great time can be had every year at the Crawfish Festival in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. Big party!
Ken
That crawfish cook-up in the last photo looks absolutely sensational.
Re: Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 10:44 pm
by Doc B
Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Sat Nov 21, 2020 9:53 pm
Same here cudgee. Here they’re called crawdads, crawfish, crayfish and probably other names depending on region of the country. Very popular food in the south, usually boiled with corn, potatoes and spices. Lots of other recipes also. A great time can be had every year at the Crawfish Festival in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. Big party!
Ken
Growing up...we had a pond, out in the woods, we would catch them, over in Euless, Texas. No one I knew ever ate them. When I got stationed in Alexandria, La...was the first time I got introduced to eating them. Love them. Now, our grocery stores, here in San Antonio, carry them live, when they are in season.
Re: Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 10:58 pm
by Steve Warden
I've had crawfish in gumbo and etoufee. Good stuff.
Would love to take part in a crawfish boil one of these days.
Don't know if I could suck the head, though. I love lobster, but not a fan of the tomalley (basically the liver). I hear the head of the crawfish is similar.
Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Sat Nov 21, 2020 9:53 pm
Same here cudgee. Here they’re called crawdads, crawfish, crayfish and probably other names depending on region of the country. Very popular food in the south, usually boiled with corn, potatoes and spices. Lots of other recipes also. A great time can be had every year at the Crawfish Festival in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. Big party!
Ken
Growing up...we had a pond, out in the woods, we would catch them, over in Euless, Texas. No one I knew ever ate them. When I got stationed in Alexandria, La...was the first time I got introduced to eating them. Love them. Now, our grocery stores, here in San Antonio, carry them live, when they are in season.
I forgot to say, they are excellent fish bait as well. We have a native species called Murray Cod which can only be caught in certain river systems, they can get as old as 100 years and grow to 4-5 feet in length weighing in at 80-100 pounds. The really old ones which were fished out were even bigger, they were massive. But all fish will take small to large yabbies. Here is a photo of a Murray Cod, and an old photo of a massive one. There are now strict limits on catching them now, bag limits and no longer than 20 inches, and catch and release is recommended. If you get caught breaking these rules, there are heavy penalties, with confiscation of ALL your fishing gear, including, boat,trailer and car. The biggest i have seen is 5 foot, and if prepared properly are sensational eating. I had one done properly and it is the best fish i have ever eaten.
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Re: Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:48 pm
by Doc B
Those are some nice looking fish! I would guess some people use live ones to fish with. I've certainly seen the crawfish artificial lures. I would think most often used for Bass fishing, here.
Re: Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 12:07 am
by cudgee
Doc B wrote: ↑Sat Nov 21, 2020 11:48 pm
Those are some nice looking fish! I would guess some people use live ones to fish with. I've certainly seen the crawfish artificial lures. I would think most often used for Bass fishing, here.
Yes they are mostly used live.
Re: Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 12:10 am
by Colonel26
Oh man! I love me a good crawfish boil, and yes they make good bait too.
I bet those cod fish are a hoot to catch!
Re: Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 12:20 am
by cudgee
Colonel26 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 12:10 am
Oh man! I love me a good crawfish boil, and yes they make good bait too.
I bet those cod fish are a hoot to catch!
They are, but hard to catch, the older they get the more craftier they get. Very territorial and the big old ones usually inhabit a deep hole covered and surrounded by big gum trees, so getting bait or lures in there without getting snagged can be difficult. Have been caught on ping pong balls with a big hook through them, the cod think they are birds eggs fallen from the nest.
Colonel26 wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 12:10 am
Oh man! I love me a good crawfish boil, and yes they make good bait too.
I bet those cod fish are a hoot to catch!
They are, but hard to catch, the older they get the more craftier they get. Very territorial and the big old ones usually inhabit a deep hole covered and surrounded by big gum trees, so getting bait or lures in there without getting snagged can be difficult. Have been caught on ping pong balls with a big hook through them, the cod think they are birds eggs fallen from the nest.
WOW!
Re: Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 1:24 am
by Mumbleypeg
Possibly the absolute best live bait for channel catfish, bass (especially smallmouth) and other fish is what we call soft shell crawdads. Immediately after they “moult”, or shed their old outgrown tail covering, the new tail is soft. When we seine for bait if we find a soft shell crawdad, that’s a big plus. Smallmouth bass can’t resist them. How they know the difference before they strike, I don’t know.
Ken
Re: Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 1:41 am
by cudgee
Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 1:24 am
Possibly the absolute best live bait for channel catfish, bass (especially smallmouth) and other fish is what we call soft shell crawdads. Immediately after they “moult”, or shed their old outgrown tail covering, the new tail is soft. When we seine for bait if we find a soft shell crawdad, that’s a big plus. Smallmouth bass can’t resist them. How they know the difference before they strike, I don’t know.
Ken
I know what you mean, but know they do, how, i'm buggered if i know how.
Re: Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 3:58 am
by TwoFlowersLuggage
Ahhh - crawfish etouffee in New Orleans! Love it, love it, LOVE IT!!!
Out here on the California coast, it is currently Spiny Lobster, Dungeness Crab & Rock Crab season. All the bait shops around here sell hoop nets & crab traps. Although some people fish for crabs & lobsters from the rocks or piers, you really need a boat or kayak to be successful. The spots you can get to from the rocks & piers are all too heavily fished to get any keepers. I've never fished for crabs or lobsters - but I sure do like eating them! There is a type of crab snare that you can throw with your fishing rod that I might try some day, but the beach near me is really not known for crabbing. You just load the wire box with fish parts (I have even heard some people use chicken) and chuck it as far as you can onto a sandy bottom.
Re: Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 4:53 pm
by Eustace
TwoFlowersLuggage wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 3:58 am
Ahhh - crawfish etouffee in New Orleans! Love it, love it, LOVE IT!!!
Out here on the California coast, it is currently Spiny Lobster, Dungeness Crab & Rock Crab season. All the bait shops around here sell hoop nets & crab traps. Although some people fish for crabs & lobsters from the rocks or piers, you really need a boat or kayak to be successful. The spots you can get to from the rocks & piers are all too heavily fished to get any keepers. I've never fished for crabs or lobsters - but I sure do like eating them! There is a type of crab snare that you can throw with your fishing rod that I might try some day, but the beach near me is really not known for crabbing. You just load the wire box with fish parts (I have even heard some people use chicken) and chuck it as far as you can onto a sandy bottom.
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In my opinion, slowly, slowly, but surely, the idea of buying a boat is brewing in you.
Re: Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 8:54 pm
by bighomer
Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Sat Nov 21, 2020 9:53 pm
Same here cudgee. Here they’re called crawdads, crawfish, crayfish and probably other names depending on region of the country. Very popular food in the south, usually boiled with corn, potatoes and spices. Lots of other recipes also. A great time can be had every year at the Crawfish Festival in Breaux Bridge, Louisiana. Big party!
Woohee them is some fine looking victuals there Ken, few years ago we took a little trip to your great state of Texas spend a few days with my wife's cousin in Fort Worth, we planned to get hotel room around Shreveport then drive on in the next morning. Well to our surprise there wasn't a room to be had. They were having the annual mud bug festival and something elsewhere was happening. We drove close to a hundred miles before we found a motel with a vacancy. I guess all that to say that they are called mudbugs too, a term that I'd never heard until then.
Re: Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 9:35 pm
by cudgee
Yesterday i posted some photos of yabbies and murray cod. This is murray cod territory, free flowing with big deep banks and big trees lining the banks.
Re: Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 9:59 pm
by just bob
I live very near the Wilbur Wright Trail. It is a 3 mile long paved walkway. On a good day you will find 50 -75 people out there enjoying the sun. It is a great community resource and open to bike riders, skateboarders, walkers, dogs, and almost any non - motorized vehicle. It does you good to see people on crutches and walkers out there. The trail meanders around and gets very near Blue River. I took the picture of the beaver dam in early summer. It is much bigger now. It's not unusual to see deer, squirrels, rabbits, many birds, and even a coyote or fox occasionally. I do a lot of volunteer work on the trail and help support it. We have about 75 trees planted alongside the trail. People can sponsor a tree and the money is used for the upkeep of the trail. The tree behind the bicycle sculpture is a Tulip Poplar Tree, which is the state tree of Indiana.
Re: Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things
Posted: Sun Nov 22, 2020 11:33 pm
by TwoFlowersLuggage
Eustace wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 4:53 pm
In my opinion, slowly, slowly, but surely, the idea of buying a boat is brewing in you.
No, no, NO!!! I have absolutely no interest in owning a boat. Being out on the ocean in a little boat scares me silly.
I'm also not interested in going out in a sport fishing charter boat. I get motion sickness quite badly, and I want to be fully in charge of when I call it quits and head back to dry land. I do NOT want to be held hostage on boat for hours...
Re: Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2020 2:55 am
by jerryd6818
TwoFlowersLuggage wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 11:33 pm
I get motion sickness quite badly,
Eat soda crackers. Ask any of these old Squids on here. It works (personal experience)
Re: Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2020 3:04 am
by Mumbleypeg
Mazie says, “I promise, I never touched it. It just died!”
Ken
P.S. I called her away from it, and about a minute later it resurrected itself and toddled off.
Re: Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2020 3:34 am
by cudgee
Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 3:04 am
Mazie says, “I promise, I never touched it. It just died!”
Ken
P.S. I called her away from it, and about a minute later it resurrected itself and toddled off.
That is one guilty dog, the face gives her up. What has she caught by the way.?
Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 3:04 am
Mazie says, “I promise, I never touched it. It just died!”
Ken
P.S. I called her away from it, and about a minute later it resurrected itself and toddled off.
That is one guilty dog, the face gives her up. What has she caught by the way.?
That’s a possum. Aka Opossum. It’s a marsupial native to most of the Americas. This wasn’t her first encounter with a possum. The dog never touched it, it just acted like it was dead (it wasn’t) which when threatened is their defense mechanism.
Ken
Re: Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2020 12:59 pm
by Colonel26
cudgee wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 9:35 pm
Yesterday i posted some photos of yabbies and murray cod. This is murray cod territory, free flowing with big deep banks and big trees lining the banks.
Cod territory..jpg
That’s a beautiful scene.
just bob wrote: ↑Sun Nov 22, 2020 9:59 pm
I live very near the Wilbur Wright Trail. It is a 3 mile long paved walkway. On a good day you will find 50 -75 people out there enjoying the sun. It is a great community resource and open to bike riders, skateboarders, walkers, dogs, and almost any non - motorized vehicle. It does you good to see people on crutches and walkers out there. The trail meanders around and gets very near Blue River. I took the picture of the beaver dam in early summer. It is much bigger now. It's not unusual to see deer, squirrels, rabbits, many birds, and even a coyote or fox occasionally. I do a lot of volunteer work on the trail and help support it. We have about 75 trees planted alongside the trail. People can sponsor a tree and the money is used for the upkeep of the trail. The tree behind the bicycle sculpture is a Tulip Poplar Tree, which is the state tree of Indiana.
That looks like a very nice trail, and a lot of fun! Poplar trees grow, literally like weeds on my place. I have a section on top of the hill in the back pasture that if I don’t keep mowed, they will over run it. Beautiful trees and great wood though.
Mumbleypeg wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 3:04 am
Mazie says, “I promise, I never touched it. It just died!”
Ken
P.S. I called her away from it, and about a minute later it resurrected itself and toddled off.
Bless her heart. I’ve got a couple of first class possum killers in the back yard. They come up to eat dog food and don’t last long.
Re: Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2020 2:24 pm
by Quick Steel
Not from experience but I have read that possums have exceptionally filthy mouths. If man or beast gets bitten by one, prompt treatment is advised.
Re: Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2020 4:57 pm
by Mumbleypeg
Quick Steel wrote: ↑Mon Nov 23, 2020 2:24 pm
Not from experience but I have read that possums have exceptionally filthy mouths. If man or beast gets bitten by one, prompt treatment is advised.
Sounds reasonable to me. Possums are scavengers. Their diet consists mostly of carrion and rotting vegetation.
Ken
Re: Pictures of Miscellaneous Stuff & Things
Posted: Mon Nov 23, 2020 5:14 pm
by Montanaman
As a heritage pig farmer, we always support other heritage food producers. We received our standard bronze turkey from Frank Reese Jr. of Kansas. Really looking forward to Thursday! The industrialization of our food supply has almost eliminated these old breeds.
Hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving with friends and family.
