Some folks love eating crawfish; others can’t bring themselves to taste something that looks so much like a bug. It’s been that way for centuries. Consider this passage from Wild Sports in the Far ...

As live bait goes, it’s hard to beat crawfish for trout, bass, catfish, and more—yet they are wildly underused. That’s because it’s rare to find them for sale in bait shops. There are no commercial ...

Crawfish season typically runs from late winter through spring. Here's when peak months hit in Texas and why weather matters.

Did you ever go crawfish fishin’ in a crawfish hole? If not, well, you’ve missed out on a grand childhood activity. Maybe you know the crawfish as a crayfish, crawlfish, crawdad, crawdaddy or even mud ...

Crawfish growers may look to the rain gauges or the temperature to forecast the supply end of the Louisiana harvest. But Jason Seither, who boils and sells tons of the mud bugs each year at his ...

The Department of Natural Resources has recently discovered that anglers are purchasing red swamp crayfish from food markets and using them as live bait. It is illegal to import any live species of ...

Clockwise, from top left: minnow, crayfish, sunfish, shad, frog, and grasshopper. Fathead minnows, leeches and worms are mainstays in bait-shop refrigerators across the country. These old standards ...

Some folks love eating crawfish; others can’t bring themselves to taste something that looks so much like a bug. It’s been that way for centuries. Consider this passage from Wild Sports in the Far ...