06-22-2017, 12:19 AM
This sounds like the scenario that played out at Yuba years ago when the jumbo perch were so plentiful. You would see guys with 100, 200, 300 Jumbos in their ice sleds coming off the ice. There was no way they could process that many perch unless they had a production facility equipped to handle the volume. Doing that many, at home in your sink ?? You would be standing there for 6,7,8 hours, after standing on the ice for that long. It was wasteful and should have been stopped.
The biggest problem with 20-30 crawdad traps is that you CANNOT transport live crayfish from the place you catch them. If you are going to use that many, you have to be able to transport them LIVE, or take the tails off. So again, you go out and catch say 50lbs of dads, then stand at the cleaning station for 2-3 hours taking the tails off, RIGHT ! or, you can break the law and transport them live !! Not a smart idea. Maybe they are going to have a big party on the lake, but usually they have a bunch of kids using hand lines to catch the critters having fun.
I take my grandkids out, run 4 traps and 3 handlines. We fish for a couple of hours, process say 10lbs, which takes at least an hour. That is a long day and a lot of standing. 20-30 traps is ludicrous !!!
The biggest problem with 20-30 crawdad traps is that you CANNOT transport live crayfish from the place you catch them. If you are going to use that many, you have to be able to transport them LIVE, or take the tails off. So again, you go out and catch say 50lbs of dads, then stand at the cleaning station for 2-3 hours taking the tails off, RIGHT ! or, you can break the law and transport them live !! Not a smart idea. Maybe they are going to have a big party on the lake, but usually they have a bunch of kids using hand lines to catch the critters having fun.
I take my grandkids out, run 4 traps and 3 handlines. We fish for a couple of hours, process say 10lbs, which takes at least an hour. That is a long day and a lot of standing. 20-30 traps is ludicrous !!!