Hey there, thank you for the crayfis video. It was very entertaining. I had to watch out of my left eye. On the 2nd July, I had a catract op on the right eye. Have to use a sheild for a few days more.Looing forward to see you enjoying your meal tomorrow. Annie Low Malaysia. Sad news, my friend who had a crayfish farm, had a stroke and he had to give up his award winning and thriving biz.He worked very hard giving lessons to students and suppying fries to all who were interested God bless him
I ate crawfish for the 1st time last year when my son and I did Fly fishing a Boy Scout Summer camp. And I couldn't believe how good they tasted. Your making my mouth water.
I am always stopped dead in my tracks when you post something. I had to literally force myself to GET UP and put laundry in, first. RESUMING: This went so fast. Nooooo, Joe, I hated to see it end. Your videos are just so satisfying>>>>watching you do everyday stuff. See you at the boil. thanks for the upload.
Hint: cover cages with dark cloth, either top or all the way around. A pro crayfish catcher left cameras underwater to wonder why he didn't get much, saw them all around his traps but wouldn't go in because they felt unsafe. Got the idea to cover traps with dark cloth, then his catch tripled. The crayfish felt safe like they are going under rocks.
Really enjoy your videos Joe. I live in north Arkansas now, my wife is a Cajun from Jeanerette, La. Your boil looks like ours except I don't see any onions.
Joe: We add the potatoes at the beginning. We just got done doing a boil and added carrots with the potatoes and have now added mushrooms to the mix. My mom is from Jennings, LA. so I had fond memories of the Cajun fish boils. (she was Cajun). Really like your videos. Greetings from the Arrowhead.
Joe, I thought about you this week. I was watching a program on PBS about the anniversary of going to the Moon. This program showed the early days when they were sending men to the edge of Space in balloons. The place they launched the balloons was two hours North of Minneapolis. Which sounded like pretty close to y'all s farm house. So, I thought it was cool as much as you like Star Trek, the real Space race started practically in your own back yard.
I tried SOOOOO hard to watch that show on PBS but the channel kept pixeling out and freezing (I just have an antenna on top of the house roof, no cable or dish). I wanted to watch that show. I instead watched a show on one of the other PBS stations on a man named "Bobby Aro". I remember hearing him as an announcer on the radio station WEVE when we would go up to the folks log cabin years ago. It was still very interesting to watch but I waited all week for the space show. Two hours north of the cities puts you pretty close to the farmhouse area for sure.
Maybe I've just watched WAY to many episodes of *"Swamp People"*, but I found myself cringing each trip into and out of the river bank...and reaching into the water to retrieve your traps. LOL
Great catch Joe! Melissa will be happy! Would make some good Po Boy sandwiches! I had the best ones at K-Pauls Louisiana Kitchen! Best time in New Orleans!
@@davidharris6581 Hmm, I'll have to figure out which is more important. Catching the crayfish or eating the bacon myself. That might be a tough call! 😜
Is this on the Rum? 😶 Have you ever gone after any of the Northern Watershed bugs? It would be cool to do a side-by-side taste test. Also, maybe, take Melissa Smelting, now that they’ve got a season again. 👍🏻❤️
Joe, been watching for a long time. I really enjoy your videos!! I noticed something while watching and had to commit. Just a suggestion from someone who spends a lot of time in the woods of Alabama, invest in some snake boots!! I saw you had sneakers on and had to send a message. In that thick grass and downed trees you can never know where a poisonous serpent may be lingering!! Anyway, thanks for sharing your adventures!! David
I do have boots when I am in Louisiana but up here in Minnesota we have no poison snakes and no poison spiders. I still could have used boots though because of the mud. Thank You David.
never have set a crawdad trap, but had a few meals of them. Always seemed like structure was the key. Find a place with a lot of rocks or concrete in the water. They'll be hiding, waiting for some liver. Kids have had a blast catching them! Can fill a plastic shopping bag with as much as you want to carry in it, fairly fast.
What a haul! I wonder if those flooding rains help with the count taken. When you go back take your fishing pole. I bet there a good fish running in that fast current. Have you or Melissa ever heard about soaking craws and shrimp in milk. That it cleans out the digestive track and they taste better? Please let me know you info on that subject.
Joe why not keep in container with fresh water and cover the lid. Normally these sort of fresh alive shellfish.. they can last few days in the water. In fact soak in a fresh water help to purge the muddy taste ... In far east they normally let the river fishes etc in a fresh clean water.. for few days to remove earthy taste. Thanks
They die if you keep them in water for any period of time unless you have an aerator and a big tank. I had to transport these up to the farmhouse and I needed them put to sleep. When you order live crawfish online to be delivered, they basically do just what you saw me do for transporting. Watch the follow up video I am uploading now on the Northern Seclusion channel. You will see that they made it very well. I think I only had 2 dead ones.
Your mudbuggin videos are my favorite! Some of those things were the size of small Lobsters!! What a haul! Can you fish Yo-yo rigs there? Was thinking fish that eat Crawfish may hang around the traps??
In Louisiana they tend to always be in non moving water and up here in Minnesota I have only caught them in moving water. I will be doing a "Crayfishing the north" video in a few weeks and I will be doing it in a lake. We will see how that turns out.
Where I come from in Western Australia they are called gilgies(jill-gees, with a hard ‘g’ as in goose) or koonaks(koo-naks) and our larger freshwater crustaceans, which are like a freshwater crayfish/lobster are called marron.(ma-ron, the ‘a’ sound as in apple.) I reckon they’d be comparable to your mudbugs for size and probably taste.
You should make a cage you can sink at a hidden spot at the river ro keep em until you are ready for them. You dont even need a line that might give the position away, just use a grapple hook to get it back. Or, attach sinking rope and tie it just under water.
Thanks for the video man! Do you notice a taste difference between the crayfish here and in Louisiana? I've been wanting to try mudbuggin up north at my place. Also can you get the traps locally or just order them online? Can't wait for the boil video!
Chicken liver works well. Deer liver also. If you can catch a fish in the same body of water (so you are legal) you are trapping and you kill it and put it in the trap your results (if the Crayfish are there) will be amazing.... If not, there are not many Mudbugs in that body of water.
Watched another video where they keep purging their Crayfish til the water is clear making sure the Crayfish are all "pooped out", plus they don't salt.
Been back to Louisiana lately? Me and a friend have been cleaning the litter in the area you use to crawfish south of Sorrento and it looks much better now. You can see my photos shot there at Naturally Louisiana on FB. The Ascension Parish album was shot there.
I was down there for 5 weeks, I just got back to Minnesota. Melissa is down there right now. I post those videos on the "Northern Seclusion" channel. I did drive into Conway, I did not have time for fishing. That road going in there is horrible now. Maybe next time down I can get in there and see what I can catch. I just looked at those pictures. Very nice.
@@JoeandZachSurvival I have been hammering the LDWF to fix the road!! After 3 months of bitching they finally got the funding. So the road should be getting fixed soon. Glad you like the photos. When you get back down here shoot me a message I'd like to meet ya!
The boil video will be public and ready to watch in 17 minutes my other computer that is uploading it says. I am posting that on the Northern Seclusion channel. It is not real in depth because I have done the in depth videos on boiling here on this channel in the past. You do see what I add and how much etc. As far as eating them, we do eat them but I do not show how to eat them.
Oh is that what it is called. I saw many years ago some old timer taking about soaking/purging in milk for a spell. He said it made them even better for eating.
Wow Joe, nice haul. Hope your next video shows how to cook and eat these little buggers. I never have tried them.
Its posted on his other channel
Loved that rainbow at the beginning. Thought maybe there would be a full pot of crawdads at the end of it, LOL
Glad someone else saw it as well!!
Hey there, thank you for the crayfis video. It was very entertaining. I had to watch out of my left eye. On the 2nd July, I had a catract op on the right eye. Have to use a sheild for a few days more.Looing forward to see you enjoying your meal tomorrow. Annie Low Malaysia. Sad news, my friend who had a crayfish farm, had a stroke and he had to give up his award winning and thriving biz.He worked very hard giving lessons to students and suppying fries to all who were interested God bless him
Haven’t watched your videos in months maybe even years, good to see you’re still doing good and mud buggin
I ate crawfish for the 1st time last year when my son and I did Fly fishing a Boy Scout Summer camp. And I couldn't believe how good they tasted. Your making my mouth water.
They are awesome.
It was your textbook trap tosses that made the difference joe. You must have been practicing in the offseason
I love the mud bug video's Joe, thank you for posting.
Dang. That’s awesome. I look forward to the mudbuggin videos every year. Thanks for sharing. Take care, see ya :)
I bet that someday Xander will really enjoy helping Grandpa do this ( and vice versa )
I am always stopped dead in my tracks when you post something. I had to literally force myself to GET UP and put laundry in, first. RESUMING: This went so fast. Nooooo, Joe, I hated to see it end. Your videos are just so satisfying>>>>watching you do everyday stuff. See you at the boil. thanks for the upload.
Hint: cover cages with dark cloth, either top or all the way around. A pro crayfish catcher left cameras underwater to wonder why he didn't get much, saw them all around his traps but wouldn't go in because they felt unsafe. Got the idea to cover traps with dark cloth, then his catch tripled. The crayfish felt safe like they are going under rocks.
It warms my heart that you call them “crawfish.”
Oh man! I’ve been wanting to request crawdad trappin video!
But, I didn’t wanna be bossy!
Surprised how much crawfish you got!
Great results hard work for really good eats!
Really enjoy your videos Joe. I live in north Arkansas now, my wife is a Cajun from Jeanerette, La. Your boil looks like ours except I don't see any onions.
Greatest Crayfish episode yet Joe!
Wow! You really dialed in.
I have been waiting patiently all weekend for a vid to pop up! Lol, looks like ur gonna have a feast...
I get a special kind of excited when you go mudbuggin. Glad to see youre back at it!
You hit the jackpot this time! Past couple times been poor catching. 😁👌
Joe: We add the potatoes at the beginning. We just got done doing a boil and added carrots with the potatoes and have now added mushrooms to the mix. My mom is from Jennings, LA. so I had fond memories of the Cajun fish boils. (she was Cajun). Really like your videos. Greetings from the Arrowhead.
Wow! Great haul on the mud bugs Joe.
Very Awesome I'm so hungry for bugs now yummy yummy and wow they are large great adventure thumbs up my friends
I love your videos Joe ! Nature's beauty at it's best.
Nice rainbow at the beginning of the video.
Congratulations..Always great crawfishing videos!!!!
Joe, I thought about you this week. I was watching a program on PBS about the anniversary of going to the Moon. This program showed the early days when they were sending men to the edge of Space in balloons. The place they launched the balloons was two hours North of Minneapolis. Which sounded like pretty close to y'all s farm house. So, I thought it was cool as much as you like Star Trek, the real Space race started practically in your own back yard.
I tried SOOOOO hard to watch that show on PBS but the channel kept pixeling out and freezing (I just have an antenna on top of the house roof, no cable or dish). I wanted to watch that show. I instead watched a show on one of the other PBS stations on a man named "Bobby Aro". I remember hearing him as an announcer on the radio station WEVE when we would go up to the folks log cabin years ago. It was still very interesting to watch but I waited all week for the space show. Two hours north of the cities puts you pretty close to the farmhouse area for sure.
Even looking at the live ones made me hungry!!! Awesome!!
Maybe I've just watched WAY to many episodes of *"Swamp People"*, but I found myself cringing each trip into and out of the river bank...and reaching into the water to retrieve your traps. LOL
Joe, if you added a Bon Jovi track, you could call this "Muddiest Catch"? LOL
Great catch Joe! Melissa will be happy! Would make some good Po Boy sandwiches! I had the best ones at K-Pauls Louisiana Kitchen! Best time in New Orleans!
Oh that makes my mouth water
The rain🌈 is looking awesome. So are the mudbugs.
Going to need a bigger bucket Joe, wonderful.
Watching from Louisiana. Awesome job!
enjoyed it , , , looks like you got enough to feed the whole village lol lol : - )
Wow some of those things were huge. Looks like about 20 to 30 lb of crawfish! Way to go. Hope you're going to share.
Why wouldn't he/they?
Mudbugs with breakfast !! Great way to start the week !!!
Looking good Joe! Can't wait to see how big a meal this catch makes......
Glad you caught "a plenty" thanks for sharing!
Nice haul but looks creepy as hell in the bucket 😃
What a haul!! Wish I could figure out how to catch the ones that keep drilling holes all over my property.
piece of bacon on a string works great.
@@davidharris6581 Hmm, I'll have to figure out which is more important. Catching the crayfish or eating the bacon myself. That might be a tough call! 😜
Is this on the Rum? 😶 Have you ever gone after any of the Northern Watershed bugs? It would be cool to do a side-by-side taste test. Also, maybe, take Melissa Smelting, now that they’ve got a season again. 👍🏻❤️
good haul man do us proud at the boil
Thanks! I've seen them up at the crick and wondered how to catch 'em.
First! Congrats Joe. Love your vids, keep up the great work.
you should let us watch dumping the crayfish in the bucket more.... its so soothing... and relaxing.. i dont know why...
Great video! Always look forward to your videos!
Boy do you know how to spoil a Cajun girl !!!! Can’t miss with Dat Catch 👍❤️
You did better in minn. than Down south....You guys are gonna have a good boil....Better invite friends to help you eat all them....🦞🦞
What a catch 😉👍 never seen anything like it 🦞🦞🦞🦞
Joe, been watching for a long time. I really enjoy your videos!! I noticed something while watching and had to commit. Just a suggestion from someone who spends a lot of time in the woods of Alabama, invest in some snake boots!! I saw you had sneakers on and had to send a message. In that thick grass and downed trees you can never know where a poisonous serpent may be lingering!! Anyway, thanks for sharing your adventures!! David
I do have boots when I am in Louisiana but up here in Minnesota we have no poison snakes and no poison spiders. I still could have used boots though because of the mud. Thank You David.
Great day catching mud bugs!! Looks like great eating!
Nice, if you were out there yesterday or today you'll be catching heat stroke, lol
This past week was great. I went from 150 in 5 traps to just about 300. I figured it was the temperatures rising, but I'm not totally sure.
That's a blessing from God I'd say, living off the land and water the way our God intended...
WOW, FRESH WATER CRAYFISH, NEVER HAD THOSE, whats the name of them? we don't have them like that here in Canada? Thanks ,Bob
These are "Rusty Crayfish"
JoeandZachSurvival aaahhhh okay those are the ones threading the Great Lakes, 👍 thank you 🇨🇦
never have set a crawdad trap, but had a few meals of them. Always seemed like structure was the key. Find a place with a lot of rocks or concrete in the water. They'll be hiding, waiting for some liver.
Kids have had a blast catching them! Can fill a plastic shopping bag with as much as you want to carry in it, fairly fast.
Joe, I hope these are as delicious as those I've eaten in Louisiana at Easter!!!
Melissa said they were every bit as good as the ones she has eaten down there.
@@JoeandZachSurvival Joe, Happy to hear that...
What a haul! I wonder if those flooding rains help with the count taken. When you go back take your fishing pole. I bet there a good fish running in that fast current. Have you or Melissa ever heard about soaking craws and shrimp in milk. That it cleans out the digestive track and they taste better? Please let me know you info on that subject.
I have never heard of that, I will have to look it up.
Ive been waiting anxiously for this video too !! MUDBUGGIN !!
The rainbow is trying to get into your video 0:40 on the right
Nice Catch on the Crawfish.
I think that you must have accidentally placed the traps at the end of the rainbow Joe ;)
Can't wait!! Great catch, I'll head on over to other channel and watch the cooking.
Joe why not keep in container with fresh water and cover the lid. Normally these sort of fresh alive shellfish.. they can last few days in the water. In fact soak in a fresh water help to purge the muddy taste ... In far east they normally let the river fishes etc in a fresh clean water.. for few days to remove earthy taste.
Thanks
They die if you keep them in water for any period of time unless you have an aerator and a big tank. I had to transport these up to the farmhouse and I needed them put to sleep. When you order live crawfish online to be delivered, they basically do just what you saw me do for transporting. Watch the follow up video I am uploading now on the Northern Seclusion channel. You will see that they made it very well. I think I only had 2 dead ones.
That was alot of bugs Joe!!!! Kinda jelly right now, lol. Tyfs God bless you
Wow, what a great haul! Thanks for sharing
Well done m8 have a great feed enjoy🙂
Is that the Rum River? I think I should try catching some. They look great.
Tastes BETTER than chicken!! Thanks for the video!
Those mud bugs make good fishing bait also.We use them to catch big small mouth here in Ky.
Using them on any other lake or river besides the one I caught them in is illegal here in Minnesota. They are evasive.
Awesome video joe gotta love them crawdads
Your mudbuggin videos are my favorite! Some of those things were the size of small Lobsters!! What a haul!
Can you fish Yo-yo rigs there? Was thinking fish that eat Crawfish may hang around the traps??
They are illegal here, that is why I like my trips to Louisiana. Anything goes down there.
Much more satisfying when you catch, and cook your own...
Awesome job Man!!..
Big muddbugs what a haul 👍 how can you tell if you have muddbugs can they be in ponds or does it have to be moving water
In Louisiana they tend to always be in non moving water and up here in Minnesota I have only caught them in moving water. I will be doing a "Crayfishing the north" video in a few weeks and I will be doing it in a lake. We will see how that turns out.
Thanks Mr .Joe always good answers
That’s definitely the best I’ve seen you catch. Awesome 🍻
Nice haul man. Yum 😋
Looks that is the best load u have got weather in north or south dinner time
Where I come from in Western Australia they are called gilgies(jill-gees, with a hard ‘g’ as in goose) or koonaks(koo-naks) and our larger freshwater crustaceans, which are like a freshwater crayfish/lobster are called marron.(ma-ron, the ‘a’ sound as in apple.) I reckon they’d be comparable to your mudbugs for size and probably taste.
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You should make a cage you can sink at a hidden spot at the river ro keep em until you are ready for them. You dont even need a line that might give the position away, just use a grapple hook to get it back. Or, attach sinking rope and tie it just under water.
Great catch
Awesome, maybe someone had been helping you check them last year, LOL
great day Joe!
Thanks for the video man! Do you notice a taste difference between the crayfish here and in Louisiana? I've been wanting to try mudbuggin up north at my place. Also can you get the traps locally or just order them online? Can't wait for the boil video!
There is no difference, they taste the same.
Traps u can make them yourself . Buy quarter inch metal netting
Great video!
What are you using for bait? I'm down by Shakopee, MN and have not had great luck catching'em.
Chicken liver works well. Deer liver also. If you can catch a fish in the same body of water (so you are legal) you are trapping and you kill it and put it in the trap your results (if the Crayfish are there) will be amazing.... If not, there are not many Mudbugs in that body of water.
Watched another video where they keep purging their Crayfish til the water is clear making sure the Crayfish are all "pooped out", plus they don't salt.
LSU studied it and you are correct. Purge with clean water and no salt. Salt just kills them.
Been back to Louisiana lately? Me and a friend have been cleaning the litter in the area you use to crawfish south of Sorrento and it looks much better now. You can see my photos shot there at Naturally Louisiana on FB. The Ascension Parish album was shot there.
I was down there for 5 weeks, I just got back to Minnesota. Melissa is down there right now. I post those videos on the "Northern Seclusion" channel. I did drive into Conway, I did not have time for fishing. That road going in there is horrible now. Maybe next time down I can get in there and see what I can catch. I just looked at those pictures. Very nice.
@@JoeandZachSurvival I have been hammering the LDWF to fix the road!! After 3 months of bitching they finally got the funding. So the road should be getting fixed soon. Glad you like the photos. When you get back down here shoot me a message I'd like to meet ya!
Great catch!!!! Good eat's..
You sir have it made.
Joe, I’ve been thinking about you and Melissa all weekend! Hoping Barry didn’t flood Melissa’s house after all you’ve done to it.
It is doing fine. Watch the next Farmhouse video on Northern Seclusion and I will explain more.
Great news Joe! Thanks.
Would love to see now how u clean, cook and eat the crawdads. Video on this coming on boil day?
The boil video will be public and ready to watch in 17 minutes my other computer that is uploading it says. I am posting that on the Northern Seclusion channel. It is not real in depth because I have done the in depth videos on boiling here on this channel in the past. You do see what I add and how much etc. As far as eating them, we do eat them but I do not show how to eat them.
It's been asked - but can you tell us what Melissa thinks of the northern ones vs those down south??
They taste the same as long as I get the boil seasoning correct and this time I did. She says there is no difference.
Great video joe
Joe do you purge them for a day or two to clean them out??
Oh is that what it is called. I saw many years ago some old timer taking about soaking/purging in milk for a spell. He said it made them even better for eating.
@@pattiwhite9575 fresh water first day...fresh water with salt the second. They are called mud bugs for a reason 😂
hows the ticks there joe ? im from mass and we're loaded with them .. btw good luck with the mudbugs, their good bait for smallmouth bass also ...
I have yet to get one on me this year.
Outstanding Joe, You'll have a feast for sure. Best Regards.
Fifteen years ago I turned allergic to all shellfish. This looks delicious and I am upset.
Great haul.
Was waiting for this video,wish we had some up here like that . North of Brainerd they all seem to have disappeared from the lakes years ago..?
I am not sure. I will be doing some "Crayfishing the north" later this season.
Enjoy that catch !!!!!
that rainbow to the right of the screen at 0:39!
I almost put a arrow pointing to it but did not want to ruin the view.
This is Lucky year for you Joe