HOLLAND, MI -- State fisheries regulators are setting traps this week in Lake Macatawa after an invasive crayfish species known for causing structural damage to shorelines was discovered in a bait ...

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 ...

After countless summers pulling up traps on his family farm, which harvests 300,000 pounds of crawfish a day, David Vercher knows full well how unforgiving the work can be. Crawfishers operate boats ...

Boffins are plotting to snare a plague-carrying crayfish from America, which threatens to wipe out our native species. Environment Agency ecologists hope to lure the signal crayfish into a trap set in ...

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 ...

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 ...

HOLLAND, MI -- Sometimes, nothing is the best thing to find. After a week of setting traps in Lake Macatawa following the discovery of several dead invasive crayfish along the shoreline, the Michigan ...

Fields of soy and open land flash by on rural Louisiana Highway 167 leading to Ville Platte. Like most two-lane highways in south Louisiana, there is a highly regarded boudin shop at an intersection ...