spokane crawdads

[countryboy87]

headin to spokane area next weekend to go fishing and want to try for crawdads. anyone ever try spokane river or liberty lake? thanks for any help

[Chucksrage]

Lived there for 10 years, first bit of advise dont eat anythiong out of the spokane river above spokane falls. I would head to Boyer Park for some dads, Last time I was there we left the pots in for an hour and captured over 50 good sized dads.

[AJ's Dad]

Waitts Lake north of Spokane has always been good for crawdads for me.

[Wheezzy]

I soaked mine in Waitts lake overnight a couple weekends ago and all i got was a bunch of mud cats.

[Mordalphus]

What did you use as bait?

Signal crays will swarm a dead trout, that's what I've been using after having no luck with hotdogs or cat food.

[AJ's Dad]

What's a mud cat?

[Amx]

mud puppy = crayfish/crawdad

mud cat? Hmmm

[AJ's Dad]

We used to go up there at night, throw out a half opened can of tuna fish or cat food. Then go wade out and pick them up by the bucket load with a pair of salad tongs and a flashlight.

[Amx]

Looks like a 'mud cat' is a catfish.

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[Wheezzy]

Yea, mud cat is a catfish, I guess they are actually yellow bullhead catfish. I was using trout carcasses as bait. I checked the trap a few times during the night, the catfish were small enough that they could swim into the trap eat what they wanted and swim back out. I have yet to catch more than one crawfish in my pot. I live near Silver lake and have only caught one, and that took me 3 overnight soaks.

[Bodofish]

Location, location, location, just tossing the pot in will not yield results. You need to find a stream entering the lake in many cases, drop your pot right out in front. Some lakes you can just toss'em out most no.