Catching craws ain't that bad...

[smashingsmallies]

Went fishin' yesterday here in Ohio with a fellow member and we caught a decent amount of fish and had a blast.  While fishing plastics, my partner pulled up a crawdad that latched onto his bait.  We both laughed and thought it odd-I've never seen a crawdad caught before.  Before the trip was through, I caught two more craws that latched onto my bait!  (I also caught a river shiner, about 4" long, on a small craw crank that I was occasionally throwing--never done that before either)   The creek we're fishing has so many craws in it that the fishing can be difficult, even though we catch fish every time we go.  I've never seen so many craws in the water in my life--let alone catch 'em!  Has anyone else out there had this happen?

[Shane J]

No, but that sure does make bait and color selections easy!

[Dan:]

I caught one on a silver buddy in 20 FOW this winter.

[Jigfishn10]

No, but that's funny!

Closest thing that latch on to my lure was a clam...LOL. Actually it was yesterday. I made a cast and the wind caught my spinnerbait in midflight causing a "professional overrun". When I got untangled, I started reeling in. The lure felt really heaving so I thought I just had some salad on it. Come to find out, I had a clam locked on it.

[A-Jay]

As a boy fishing in New England, my brother and I would catch Crayfish in a minnow trap over night and "feed" them to the Bass in the morning. They made great bait and we never had enough.

Come to think of it - a live crayfish might make a heck of a trailer on a jig . . . . . . .

A-Jay

[Scorcher214]

I've caught them when i was using actual worms and little hooks. they would latch onto the worm hook with there claw and i would pull them up, take em off throw em back.

[Nine Miler]

I had a buddy in Victoria BC several years ago who lived close to some giant tidal flats that had bunch of crab that would move in with the tide. We were out one night catching crab in the trap off of a pier, but for fun we would drop a large hook with a small piece of shrimp on it.

The crab would latch onto the hook with their claws but would let go as soon as they broke the surface of the water on the retrieve. The goal was to get them near the surface and then try to fling them up over the rail on the pier before the let go and dropped off.

It is amazing what can amuse us.

[Glenn]

No, but that's funny!

Closest thing that latch on to my lure was a clam...LOL. Actually it was yesterday. I made a cast and the wind caught my spinnerbait in midflight causing a "professional overrun". When I got untangled, I started reeling in. The lure felt really heaving so I thought I just had some salad on it. Come to find out, I had a clam locked on it.

My wife has caught 2 clams over the past 2 years.  One on a crankbait, the other on a dropshot!  ;D

[Jigfishn10]

No, but that's funny!

Closest thing that latch on to my lure was a clam...LOL. Actually it was yesterday. I made a cast and the wind caught my spinnerbait in midflight causing a "professional overrun". When I got untangled, I started reeling in. The lure felt really heaving so I thought I just had some salad on it. Come to find out, I had a clam locked on it.

My wife has caught 2 clams over the past 2 years. One on a crankbait, the other on a dropshot! ;D

That's too funny, but I have to ask: How did she catch a clam on a drop shot? Suspended clam? LOL

[smashingsmallies]

And Clams!!!  Draggin' plastics on the bottom has produced more than a few clams for me as well!  When you get the bigger clams or a flat rock, and the line moves to the side...well, you know-set the hook!!!  Good stuff guys.

[Dan:]

I had a buddy in Victoria BC several years ago who lived close to some giant tidal flats that had bunch of crab that would move in with the tide. We were out one night catching crab in the trap off of a pier, but for fun we would drop a large hook with a small piece of shrimp on it.

The crab would latch onto the hook with their claws but would let go as soon as they broke the surface of the water on the retrieve. The goal was to get them near the surface and then try to fling them up over the rail on the pier before the let go and dropped off.

It is amazing what can amuse us.

That is how a lot of people go crabbing. Throw out a chicken neck on a rope, crab grabs on, pull it in, scoop him into a net just as you pull him to the surface.

[Nine Miler]

It was wild to me, a Midwesterner.  Wasn't around that very much growing up.