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Old 04-25-2005, 02:29 PM   #6
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Default Crayfish

I've heard a number of people comment on the demise of crayfish, and Dr. Lyon mentions it in his book. But along our shore, they seem to be about as abundant as ever (or at least steady over, say, the past 20 years or so). I do, however, remember as a kid we would take a bass head and hang it from a stringer in the rocks near the dock at night, then wait a little while, and when we turned the flashlight back on, there would usually be a BUNCH of them all over the head. To this day, I swear that fish heads remain the best lure in the trap, followed by pork and lamb bones. At the beginning of the season, sometimes we'd catch a "sacrificial sunny" that we'd gut and toss into the trap. By the next day, we usually had a 8-10. This is still the case, although we don't consistently get the same numbers. But we do see a healthy population under the rocks and locks when we snorkel along the shore.
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