Crawfish Lures in Florida

[CFFF 1.5]

How many people in the Florida use soft plastic crawfish lures? Honestly until recently I didn't know we had crawfish in Florida. My buddy caught one in a minnow net and then I caught about 5 yesterday while catching minnows. So naturally I went out and bought a pack of crawfish. If you do fish crawfish in Florida how well do they produce for you.

[FD.]

I have a lot of success with the zoom ultra vibe speed craws.  We have caught more than 20 in the last few weeks carolina rigging a speed craw and fishing humps and drop offs in the local phophate pits.  I also use the Bitters bat t-rigged.

[JDPgator]

I have various craws and on their own I have not much luck with them to date, but I have just started fishing a jig and that has been pretty good on the local ponds I hit.

FWIW, I have only been fishing 3 years and each year pick a bait/lure to learn about so my earlier lack of success with t-rigged craw could be "user error" as I am just trying this approach this summer.

I voted "Knew we had crawfish but don't use", because that is the closest.

[garry77]

I use crawdads in the Santa Fe river with good results.Also use crawdad shaped and colored cranks.Catch mostly Suwannee bass on these but the occasional largemouth too.

[JDPgator]

garry77, are you using jigs with craws or just craws?

[South FLA]

Use some of the times and they produce.  Like crawdad trailers on jigs.

[warmer]

i had to clean out 5 coughed up crawdads in my live well from the fish i caught on my gambler flappy daddy's,

[Big-O]

I get to fish your wonderful Florida lakes three or four times a year and I get to catch your wonderful bass all the time I'm there and 75% on flipping Tx rigged Craws or Carolina rigging Craws or Jig 'n 'Craw Trailer.

The other 25% are jumping in the boat waving a white Flag.... ;D

(really the other 25% come on top and cranks)

Big O

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[Bassin_Fin@tic]

If it looks like food and acts like food it will be eaten.

Curiousity killed the cat(bass)

How many worms do you see swimming around in the water?

That being said I dont see any reason that a craw imitator wouldn't catch fish in a body of water that is completely devoid of craws.