What kinds of lakes hold crawfish? 2025
Sevi316 reply :
The title says it all... How do I know if the lake I am fishing has crawfish in it? What are things to look for or what kinds of lakes hold them? Thanks!
Jake the Cake reply :
Local and state conservation departments have all kinds of information on it (species, largest population, ones that fish eat, how long they live, when they're active, etc), but as far as lakes go I would imagine 99% of them will have craws in there. You can also dissect any fish you catch to see what they're feeding on (that's if you plan on keeping them for filets). When it's not 10 degrees out you can go to the lake and flip rocks to see what's hiding under them too.
Bluebasser86 reply :
Turn a few flat rocks over in the shallows, you should find out pretty quickly. Walking a shoreline at night with a flashlight is another good way.
WRB reply :
You would be hard pressed to find any body of water that has a bass population without a crawdad population.
Tom
Catt reply :
Most every body of water including ditches, ya don't even need a body of water down south they are every where!
A-Jay reply :
On 1/21/2016 at 12:50 AM, WRB said:You would be hard pressed to find any body of water that has a bass population without a crawdad population.
Tom
X2 ~ I agree with Tom
Pretty much any lake you fish.
A-Jay
http://iz.carnegiemnh.org/crayfish/country_pages/state_pages/indiana.htm
Paul Roberts reply :
All of them! There are crayfish developed for just about anywhere there is a wet spot: They live in lakes, rivers, streams, swamps, ditches, and soggy fields hiding in vegetation, under rocks and wood, and burrow into mud.
One way to find crays is to explore the shallows at night with a flashlight. The sheer numbers of active craws can be astounding.
tander reply :
On 1/21/2016 at 12:59 AM, Paul Roberts said:All of them! There are crayfish developed for just about anywhere there is a wet spot: They live in lakes, rivers, streams, swamps, ditches, and soggy fields hiding in vegetation, under rocks and wood, and burrow into mud.
One way to find crays is to explore the shallows at night with a flashlight. The sheer numbers of active craws can be astounding.
This !!! I even have crawfish in my back yard. Parts of it is low and stay at least damp. After a big rain and I can see crawdad holes !!!
soflabasser reply :
Crawfish can be found in most lakes and make great bass bait.You can keep them alive in a small bucket with a air pump or in a bucket with clumps of aquatic vegetation.
Catt reply :
Y'all ever see this in your yard?
roadwarrior reply :
On top of all this, A craw pattern will work EVERYWHERE!
Weld's Largemouth reply :
On 1/21/2016 at 12:50 AM, WRB said:You would be hard pressed to find any body of water that has a bass population without a crawdad population.
Tom
Come here to long island, every lake I fish here has no crawdad/crawfish. Nada
iabass8 reply :
The ones with water
Ginosocalbass reply :
Crawfish are everywhere. And if they aren't. There is still freshwater species of Aquatic shrimp that live in most lakes as well.
hawgenvy reply :
In South Florida our crawfish are blue, and not easy to spot. Sometimes in the Everglades they are seen migrating over land, over a small levee with a dirt road, for instance, and at night, in large numbers. We often have success with blue jigs. Maybe this is why.
Blue crawfish
Turtle135 reply :
On 1/21/2016 at 9:01 AM, Weld's Largemouth said:Come here to long island, every lake I fish here has no crawdad/crawfish. Nada
what is the deal with that?
Paul Roberts reply :
Might be true. I see that only 2 species of crayfish are listed for Long Island drainages: one is introduced, the other it is not known if native or introduced. Might be explained by the glacial retraction pattern that formed Long Island.
Daniels, Robert A. 2004. Crayfishes, Shrimps and Crabs of New York's Inland Waters. New York State Biodiversity Clearinghouse, New York State Biodiversity Project and New York State Biodiversity Research Institute. http://www.nybiodiversity.org/
Alonerankin2 reply :
On 1/21/2016 at 2:31 AM, Catt said:Y'all ever see this in your yard?
One lake I fish (50 acres ) has thousands of these burrows...when I was a kid, we called them snake holes!
long island basser reply :
From what I beleive , quite a few but not all Long Island lakes have craws.
but until you see evidence, your not sure they are there.
soflabasser reply :
On 1/21/2016 at 11:30 AM, hawgenvy said:In South Florida our crawfish are blue, and not easy to spot. Sometimes in the Everglades they are seen migrating over land, over a small levee with a dirt road, for instance, and at night, in large numbers. We often have success with blue jigs. Maybe this is why.
Blue crawfish
I have caught similar looking crawfish and other types of crawfish down here.The main ones I have caught had different shades of brown with claws that have orange,blue,green,and even red in it.I use to have a aquarium where I raised crawfish,they are quite interesting pets.
jbrew73 reply :
i thought that pile in my yard was from my neighbors dog
Montanaro reply :
Ive yet to find a creek without crawfish...and creeks feed most bodies of freshwater.
WIGuide reply :
Crawfish are found in the kind of lakes that are wet.
the reel ess reply :
On 1/21/2016 at 12:39 AM, Sevi316 said:The title says it all... How do I know if the lake I am fishing has crawfish in it? What are things to look for or what kinds of lakes hold them? Thanks!
They're there
the reel ess reply :
On 1/21/2016 at 9:01 AM, Weld's Largemouth said:Come here to long island, every lake I fish here has no crawdad/crawfish. Nada
Not to argue, but when I was growing up, my parents had a lake house. I NEVER saw a crawfish in that lake until I was over 30 and I caught a bass with a claw hanging out of its rear end. They might still be there.
Weld's Largemouth reply :
On 1/22/2016 at 9:41 AM, the reel ess said:Not to argue, but when I was growing up, my parents had a lake house. I NEVER saw a crawfish in that lake until I was over 30 and I caught a bass with a claw hanging out of its rear end. They might still be there.
On the island here? What lake?
the reel ess reply :
On 1/22/2016 at 7:36 PM, Weld's Largemouth said:On the island here? What lake?
I can't say. Just giving a little anecdotal evidence of how I never saw one, yet they were there.
Maybe salinity is too high there???
boostr reply :
If they are in Jersey, they should be in LI, but who knows. I've never seen Craws in this reservoir I fish, but the bass love the jigs with Craw trailer. Then I caught one that spit up a craw. Still haven't seen a live one...
long island basser reply :
On 1/22/2016 at 7:36 PM, Weld's Largemouth said:On the island here? What lake?
I'll give you one.
Lake ronkonkoma has them. You can see guys on YouTube trapping them.
Racerx reply :
On 1/21/2016 at 12:59 AM, Paul Roberts said:There are crayfish developed for just about anywhere there is a wet spot:
I'm not gonna say it, I'm not gonna say it..........
Fishinthefish reply :
You can find a craw in a mud pile 100 yards from a lake hiding in cover. If it has water in the continental united states it has craw fish.
carlm01 reply :
I live in MA and have never seen one either ,but according to fish & game there all over the place up here ,so I guess I'll take their word for it ..
boostr reply :
There is a lake here that is river fed, never seen a crawfish, then one day in the late summer early fall of last year there were tenths of thousands all hanging around. Don't know if they were breeding, but there were a crap load. Came back the next day... gone, not one to be seen.
primetime reply :
On 1/21/2016 at 9:01 AM, Weld's Largemouth said:Come here to long island, every lake I fish here has no crawdad/crawfish. Nada
Many lakes and ponds have them on long Island...I know as a Kid Randall Pond next to the DEC office in Ridge had them as we used to catch them as young kids...You would never know they were in the pond but we used to use a sein net and get them. I also have seen them on the Peconic river and that river in Smithtown where they stock all the trout...I can't think of the name..Check out the Fish and wildlife page or DEC page and they will have lists..I also remember finding them under rocks at Wildwood and a few ponds in the Panamoka area...Maybe the weather over the past decade killed them off?
Crawfish are hard to see during the day and usually you have to chum them to get them to show themselves and even then you need a trap. If you just hop in a boat and go fishing you will rarely see one unless sticking out of a fishes throat. The next time you head to any lake, take off your shoes and walk around the ramp, flip over rocks but they are fast, so lift them slowly...At night you can find them easier with a light as they seem to congregate in areas.
I have a pond behind my place that I have fished almost daily for 5 years while walking my dog...I never knew it had any crawfish until I found one walking in the drainage ditch one day...I would have bet anyone money that they did not exist in this little pond because I had flipped over the few logs available, but they are in almost every body of water, and love streams.....
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