CRAWDAD vs EAGLE

I'm not going to confront an eagle he is a bird of prey but a crawdad?... He can fight all he wants to but he will still end up as bait or gumbo... Brother Glen

 

I got me an idee one time, to cook up a mess of creek crawdads (about a third the size of commercial crawdads); so me, my wife, and brother took a bait seine over to Howard's Creek and seined literally a 5 gallon bucket full of creek crawdads, most not much bigger than your thumb. My brother and I sat on the porch, twisted the tails off and squeezed the meat out of each one into a bowl. For all that work we may have ended up with a pound of crawdad meat. Live and learn. We'd got a lot more meat if we had seined creek perch out of the deeper holes.

Anyway, dropped those crawdad tails into a sauce pan of boiling water, took maybe 45 seconds and they turned snow white and done and was delicious with a butter sauce. If ever I do that again we'll cook them whole and let everybody fend for themselves getting the meat out.

 

Well in my meat eating days I would be smacking my lips but was your pet eagle perched there watching the proceedings?... Brother Glen

 

Actually we do get an occasional Osprey from the river that takes bluegill from our pond. A while back one perched up in a tree out front while we watched it eat the fish. Cool.

 

Did you know that those are subterranean crawdads (the kind that makes mud chimneys) and not the creek kind? They're at least twice the size of creek crawdads.

Had an old Cajon worked for me many years ago and he joked about 'sucking crawdad heads' many times.

 

I don’t remember ever eating crawdads but I’d imagine the experience is somewhat like eating hard shelled crab.

We cover the outdoor table with newspaper and spend the day cracking the shells eating, drinking, and talking.

After finishing the day of cracking and eating crab, we’d clean up and then go out for dinner.

Rob

 

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The creek crawdads we did were superior in flavor to lobster. IMO. Just not worth the effort.