With our bear season done, we decided to get in a little bit of lake fishing while the getting is good.
We arrived on Friday night and still had a little bit of light out, so we went ahead and put our crayfish traps in the lake. This is a bit early for good crayfishing, as we don't really start to see good numbers until August-September. That said, we figured we would catch a dozen or so over the weekend.
Next morning, we went to check out the traps expecting a half dozen at best. I was pretty shocked when I saw there must be 60 or 70. We got rid of the small ones and any carrying eggs, then bagged the rest up and took them back to camp.
Headed out fishing and had non-stop action most of the day.... came back to camp and ate up our crayfish.
The next morning the traps (which were still set in the exact same spot because we were lazy) still had another 30 or so. After removing the small ones and the ones with eggs, we were left with enough to go with our dinner.
Yours truly:
caddisgirl gets a nice one!
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