Crayfish?

[Slyster]

Do our (metro) lakes have crayfish? I don't recall seeing any evidence of crayfish in any local lakes. I sure see lots of mussels! Too bad there's no mussel shaped plastics.. (joke)

[Ray Esboldt]

Yep. We have crayfish. I don't know if every lake has a significant number of crayfish, but there's very few times where I can think of live welling fish in a metro tournament that did not spit up crayfish.

[ocf]

This 1 lake by eden prarie was FULL of crayfish

[Slyster]

I just read the 'officially' a tube is supposed to imitate a crayfish. Didn't know that.

[ocf]

I was surprised at first also

[OnTheWater]

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I just read the 'officially' a tube is supposed to imitate a crayfish. Didn't know that.

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I agree to a point. It all depends on how you are fishing the tube, and the color selection. In some cases, I would use one to immitate a baitfish as well.

[ikeslayer]

well like it has been said bass are opportunistic feeders. So if they have eaten 1 crayfish in their life they will probably eat another if it was dangled in front of their face. i think this is why so many guys like the j n p and tubes they get it done. ike

[ocf]

i think some company's these days thinkit represents forage and not crayfish

[ikeslayer]

OCf i was wondering if you could define forage for me. thanks ike

[Ralph Wiggum]

Forage to me means whatever is in the lake that the game fish eat.

[Slyster]

Example.. crayfish.

[Wayne Ek]

I bet there are any number of crayfish that think that was a bad example

[Deitz Dittrich]

LOL @ wayne.. dude.. you crack me up!!!

[ocf]

i guess crayfish is forage but i never fish in lakes that have crayfish in them

[Wayne Ek]

OFC, if you've fished in Minnesota, you've probably fished a lake with craw's.

[Wayne Ek]

Ok, so it's OCF, I'm old and forget things, even in a short time. By the way Deitz, who was it that cracks you up again

[ocf]

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Ok, so it's OCF, I'm old and forget things, even in a short time.

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whats that supposed to mean, i dont fish alot, and i dont think ida has crayfish in it but it might sorry about that agape

[Deitz Dittrich]

ocf, if you look in his first post to you he mistyped and called you ofc... that was the reference he was making to you on that quote..

and I would be willing to bet that Ida has crayfish in it.

[ocf]

im just doubting because i have never seen a crayfish nor have i seen it in a fish that i have cleaned, plus i just asked my grandfather who has been on ida 45 years and he said he hasnt seen a crayfish, i did catch my first walleye on ida yesterday tho

[Wayne Ek]

OCF, I got your handle wrong on the first post, so I gave Deitz a chance to take a shot at me Trust me it had nothing to do with your post just mine... Yes you have craws in Ida, I had a home on Ida for about 8 years and this past weekend fished a tournament there, after the tournament I had enough craw pieces in my livewell that I needed to use a shop vac to clean the mess up. Great job on the first walleye, hopefully it will be the first of many. This fall (Oct) frogs at night on the south shore of Little Ida bay, you will get some huge bullheads, but about every 4th or 5th fish will be a nice walleye.

[ocf]

I stand corrected...i found a crayfish in a walleye today... i am on little ida right now staying at someones house. i heard there is a tourny at ida tomorrow with the weigh in at orvilles, do you know anything about this?

[Ralph Wiggum]

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OCF, I got your handle wrong on the first post, so I gave Deitz a chance to take a shot at me

Trust me it had nothing to do with your post just mine... Yes you have craws in Ida, I had a home on Ida for about 8 years and this past weekend fished a tournament there, after the tournament I had enough craw pieces in my livewell that I needed to use a shop vac to clean the mess up.

Great job on the first walleye, hopefully it will be the first of many. This fall (Oct) frogs at night on the south shore of Little Ida bay, you will get some huge bullheads, but about every 4th or 5th fish will be a nice walleye.

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Huge bullheads? Sounds like bait to me

[Wayne Ek]

Ralph, you would not believe the size of those yellow bellys that we would catch there in the fall, I mean really pigs.