that is one high dollar crawdad!, sounds like a great day on the water

monster crawdad!! nice.. what do you guys use for bait in the traps?

Goodness gracious 50 decent perch??!! Good on you. And that is one BIG 'daddy there! Thanx for the tench mention too. I hadn't heard of it before. Another carp species, oy... At least it isn't a pikeminnow.

Nice size all the way around! I too am interested in what you use for bait. Thanks for the report.

biggest crawdad i've seen

JEALOUS!! Is that the avg size perch that you kept? Beautiful,...crawdad is of nice size also, great day for sure,..

I wish I could say the crawdad and perch were the average but no they were the big ones for the day. Perch, we had ten or so"jumbos" that size. The rest were good sized (I can fillet them and feel good about the effort it took). I think if we had longer we could have gotten more. The crawdads were caught on bass carcasses I'd filleted out and frozen. Three hour random daytime drop with two of my small traps I wad doing back flips. My nine crawdads I caught completely covered a dinner plate. I'll use all my fish carcasses for bait. Just drop in a zip lock and freeze. Good way to get rid of them too without smelling up the garbage can.

Wow sounds like you guys did pretty well. Were you on a boat or from shore? What were you using for bait for the perch?