06-02-2011, 03:41 PM
"Are crawdads ( dead of course) a legal bait only if caught in the same water where fishing occurs? Or since they are dead, can they then be used elsewhere as bait?"
[cool][#0000ff]They can be used as live bait if used in the same waters from which you caught them. Strong laws against transporting them live so don't try it. Bad ecology too...even if there are already 'dads in the waters you will be fishing. But, there are no Utah waters I know of that restrict the use of DEAD crawdads...as long as any bait is allowed.[/#0000ff]
[#0000ff]The good news is that dead (or ripe) crawdads are great bait for cats almost anywhere. There are crawdads in Utah Lake, so they are a natural food when available. But the resident predators keep the populations pretty low.[/#0000ff]
[#0000ff]Howsomever, I sometimes do very well by dragging a piece of carp meat around until it is a bit "washed out" and then anointing it with a few drops of crawdad oil. There have been many times when I get my first bite in a long time within seconds after lobbing out the "sweetened" carp meat.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I also talked a couple of guys into using carp meat with crawdad oil at the Gorge last winter and they reported good success on the burbots too. [/#0000ff]
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[cool][#0000ff]They can be used as live bait if used in the same waters from which you caught them. Strong laws against transporting them live so don't try it. Bad ecology too...even if there are already 'dads in the waters you will be fishing. But, there are no Utah waters I know of that restrict the use of DEAD crawdads...as long as any bait is allowed.[/#0000ff]
[#0000ff]The good news is that dead (or ripe) crawdads are great bait for cats almost anywhere. There are crawdads in Utah Lake, so they are a natural food when available. But the resident predators keep the populations pretty low.[/#0000ff]
[#0000ff]Howsomever, I sometimes do very well by dragging a piece of carp meat around until it is a bit "washed out" and then anointing it with a few drops of crawdad oil. There have been many times when I get my first bite in a long time within seconds after lobbing out the "sweetened" carp meat.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I also talked a couple of guys into using carp meat with crawdad oil at the Gorge last winter and they reported good success on the burbots too. [/#0000ff]
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