How to Catch Crawdads With Bluegill
Crawdads are a delicious treat if caught fresh and fry the meat in butter and garlic. Catching crawdads isn't rocket science. All that is needed is a fishing pole baited with a piece of cut-up bluegill. Crawdads go for any kind of meat as bait and bluegill works as well as any of them. Take a look at the following article to find out how.
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Things You'll Need
- Fishing pole with line and hook
- Piece of cut-up bluegill
- Large fishing net
Instructions
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Attach a piece of bluegill securely onto fishing hook and dip pole in the water. Soon crawfish will give gentle tugs on the line. It's probably a crawdad trying to eat your bluegill bait.
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Reel the line in carefully being cautious not to knock the crawdad off the bait. There might be more than one crawdad on the bait. Keep a steady hand and don't swing the line around too much otherwise the crawdads will fall off the bait.
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Hold the fishing net underneath the crawdads to ensure that any that drop off the bait will still be caught. Crawdads sometimes hide in cracks at the edge of the water. This is a great place to dangle a the bait. Sometimes over one hundred crawfish can be caught in less than an hour.
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Repeat Steps 2 & 3 until you have a good "mess" of crawdads to take home and eat for supper. Look on the Internet for delicious recipes for crawdads.
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Tips & Warnings
Always watch your kids around water
Bait your kid's hooks for them as fish hooks are extremely sharp!
