Crawfish Catch N Cook Survival -Hand Caught / Fire Grilled- Crawdads

hey guys so Bri and I are out here in South Texas we're about to try and show you how to catch crawdads using your bare hands down here in the creek now I do have a few traps we'll go ahead and set those Ethel's or Plan B but the idea is it here after a while one way or another we'll have a campfire going show you how to cook crawdads over open flame South Texas style let's go ahead and get these traps baited up set out so they have enough time to catch something we're using dry dog food I always use dry dog food cheap stuff works pretty well handful and a half [Applause] boom check it out one-armed Mike check this guy out red swamp crawdad claws are almost big enough to eat there's a lot to meet in that tail though now most the crowd is that I'm catching out here gonna be found learning these big flat rocks now later on in the season summer especially if the water level starts to drop you'll see burrows with big mud chimneys all up and down the banks and we can actually excavate those but that's gonna happen here in about a month or so so these big flat rocks you check all the way around them probably lick your fingers I have to get over the idea putting your hands places where you can't really see what you're touching as far as crawdads being able to grab onto you as long as your fingers are moving you're not gonna have too much of an issue now once you've probed around it you haven't really found anything the next step is to kind of lift and as you lift take your hands and you run them underneath before those crawdads get out before they have a chance to get out that's turned decent you grab ahold of them and this is gonna take a bit of practice the first few that you touch they'll start flickering backwards and your natural response for your hands is just gonna be to pull it away once that happens two or three times and you've lost a few you'll kind of get over that and you'll be able to grab them check this guy out massive claws it's actually got some meat in there it's pretty awesome early spring it's gonna be a good year check this out yeah Asian clams she's a keeper ya know is going back they're not on the menu I'm finding a bed of them over here though good healthy water so these are the claims were finding actually invasive if you pull up a catfish from the river and look at it stomach it'll be full of digas got him see that would you get another car dad he was wedged back there I gotta keep it slowly catching up yeah check it out you'll see you're gonna come down here and look at it now I know it looks like we're making a muddy mess down here in the creek working up the water pretty bad but this happens every other week whenever it rains we have our eyes on the creek flushes a lot of stuff out makes it real cloudy for a few days it's pretty normal now one thing we like to do as we come through here is any where we find a flat rock there quite a few of in this Creek we try and set them up in such a way so that they become habitat later on so you can actually manipulate this so that more crawdads have a place to live or any creature for that matter so that if you have to come back and get crawfish later you know where to find him and even if you don't you're helping these guys out a little bit they should tell the creek rises up again enough to knock them over yep well you do it work any crawfish not sticks crawfish crawfish not sticks okay this is a stick only liked crawdads as much as you like sticks okay check it out don't drop them oh my god no that's you're surviving this my size everything you same things you cut enough large cutouts we don't really need these little guys so we're gonna go ahead and let them go check out today's catch some good-looking crawdads not bad huh I think we have enough progress to make a meal out of not a very big meal I've got left just for you to make a fire we need to find something to cook them with home sweet home I'm gonna go find something we cook these products with get fire started all right thought of work yucca blossomed out a few weeks ago and now it is full of pods normally I'd be using cane or bamboo analog to cook these guys with canes all dead and what's not dead it's just barely shooting out of the ground we're gonna go ahead and use the yucca Spears to put our crawdads over the fire this time go see how Brees doing with that fire hey fire looks good everything he's brought as breath right now we've gone ahead and dispatch these crawdads off of camera but there's one more step that we want to go ahead and do before we put them on the fire and that is taking out the anal passage back here and that's gonna be the digestive tract now to do that you'd go back here on the tail there's gonna be several little fins back here you're going for the large middle one so go ahead and pinch that between the thumb and one of your fingers grasp that firmly click one way side click the other side you're gonna be releasing that just a little bit so you should fill the two clicks and then a little bit of wiggling you're gonna pull back on it ok sometimes will let loose did you do so it's gonna pull out that tube that's what you want to get out of the way because what we're going after is the meat of the tail and that cleans it up and also makes it very easy for us to put over the fire using the method that we're gonna use today so you do the rest of grief sure like this you got it go ahead and finish up the rest of them and I'll start putting these guys over the fire now for this cooking method we're gonna go ahead and use the sharpen point of a Spanish dagger yucca and we're gonna be pushing that up and through the new hole that we've made when we pulled out the digestive tract and push that up through the meat of the tail and this will allow us to suspend that over the fire to cook it just like that let's go ahead and put this guy over the fire start cooking now as these cook they're gonna change color and that shells gonna get real red this is the red swamp crawfish once that happens we'll go ahead and flip them over make sure he's cooked through early on both sides it's time to eat they're ready to turn check out that bright red color this is definitely done he's pretty looks like a few of these are ready so we're gonna start taking them off and it's time to eat awesome well our taste testers here it's been a long day but it's time to go ahead and try out what we've cooked up so this is a little bit different from your crawfish boils we are going after the meat and a tail and with the larger clawed ones we're gonna go ahead and try get some meat out of that as well but you can't you can't do it Louisiana Cajun style where you actually suck the inside of the body out because when you add flame without all the water it gets dried out a little bit so what we're gonna do go ahead take that tail crack it pull back on it you have all that meat inside the tail trying to describe what this smells like it's kind of like Lobster yeah makes it taste completely different so flame broiled lobster if you've done crawfish boils and you think you know what crawfish taste like is this is completely different it it makes it taste like eight different meat all together which is pretty awesome but I don't know if you get a lot of crawdads which we have a few here it's so much easier just to go ahead and boil them absolutely so you want to go ahead and pull all of the shell off sometimes with the flame it's gonna get kind of crunchy mm-hmm about the dog is a hud-approved no he needs some garlic and butter maybe thinking cocktail sauce no he's all about that champagne lifestyle though a lot of tail in there see about some of these claws this is the red swamp crawfish and they don't have the largest claws but they get up to be a pretty decent size this is this is actually March still and so we're at the beginning of the season these guys will get much larger and there's a lot of babies out there in the creek so there's no meat that's in there you have to have something to pinch with yeah yeah he's got to work a little bit depends on how much you want it now Suns starting to go down we'll go ahead and check the traps I guess tomorrow morning they could stay on overnight and they usually catch quite a bit more overnight and we'll see we'll figure that one out what guys hopefully you enjoyed this video we enjoyed making it out here everything's turning green it's gonna be an amazing year hopefully for crawfish trapping and lots of more videos actually I think rain I'll take the st. out and see what's in the creek definitively because saying where you're actually in the creek with it not a pro st. a push st. is something all together different and this one right here this 31 he loves it when we go sanding so guys stay tuned I toast what you think about this like subscribe share the heck out of this video and as always well until next time bye guys what you want the crawfish that bad let's go ahead and show you this meat up close so you have a better idea of what we're working with pull the tail off just falls out there check it out good stuff sure you don't want this heck okay you missing out but it's mine I had us good well guys we've met to come out here the next morning to check these traps but it's actually been three days if you see all the mud all the nasty stuff all the way across here the San Antonio River rose 37 feet and it backed all the way up this Creek and covered a lot of this over with water so we couldn't get down here so this is the reveal and go ahead and pull this thing up and see what it's caught over the course of three days because even the Rope was under water up until just a moment ago well yesterday evening that's pretty good turnout maduk water pool let's check him out what if you crawdads not the largest ones but it's still pretty early in the season these guys eat and eat I've got plenty food out here in the creek not too many fish well we'll see the river probably dropped off a few big fish and some of these pools so we'll see what the season brings but these guys are gonna get rereleased and we'll go ahead probably see quite a few of them later on next season so they got a meal and they got a little bit of freedom now some folks have probably seen me using this traps in some of the other videos and they've been commented on now this is an extender made by geez most people have seen the G's traps at the bottom of the top pieces right here put together but few folks have seen this middle section and that's what we're using out here it increases the volume especially as the season gets going and it makes it where we can catch a heck of a lot more now the difference here and this is pretty awesome is that most of the extenders that you see out of the market are gonna be 15 inches so over twice this size and they're called eel pots now in Texas and several other states if I've actually got to the point where these minnow and crawdad traps have to be under a certain length so 24 inches long is the max length where a crawdad trap here in Texas now a normal G's trap both ends put together are 18 inches so the guys that make the G's trap I went ahead and called him up they made some of these special for me these are six inch extensions and if you've done a little bit of math 18 inches plus 624 this is a legal trap so a lot of folks are wondering can i buy this can I use this is this legal in Texas absolutely guys so if you get your fishing license if you're in the right kind of waters if you got your tags put in there with all the information you're doing this thing right so guys will be using traps like this later on the season I'll show you what it's really capable of whenever all the crawdads are moving and everything warms up but hope you like it ask me some questions because geez got some cool stuff coming out not only that but when everything's getting cheaper actually increased and reinforced their wire so you're using a heavier gauge wire mesh which I really appreciate especially when big cars come up and start crunching on my traps so makes them last a little bit longer we cut enough large crawdads we don't really need these little guys so we're gonna go ahead and let them go you you

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Length: 23min 13sec (1393 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 04 2018