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[FeatheredFriends&Horses2]

Look what crawled into our yard! We are uphill 300' from the stream, but it has been raining a LOT.
I call it crayfish, DH, who grew up here, calls them crawdads...what do all of you call them?
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Crawdad! I love his angry little fighting stance in the top right picture!

 

[Clearwater Chicken]

Look what crawled into our yard! We are uphill 300' from the stream, but it has been raining a LOT.
I call it crayfish, DH, who grew up here, calls them crawdads...what do all of you call them?
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its a crawdad, and they are delicious.

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Nope, not a small mouth nor a large mouth...like Ralphie!! In Texas, there called 'goggle eye'd perch', the larger mouth is the 'give away' distinction. Body wise, they are larger than other sunfishes.

Dang y'all Give me a break... I'm on a phone and I didn't blow up the picture.

 

[featherhead007]

I call it a very "short" Lobster, but I'm in California!

 

[007Sean]

Look what crawled into our yard! We are uphill 300' from the stream, but it has been raining a LOT.
I call it crayfish, DH, who grew up here, calls them crawdads...what do all of you call them?
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Dinner!

 

[SueT]

Okay, someone on the MO thread just pointed out to me that these are called 'burrowing crayfish'--they spend their lives in vast underground tunnel systems. They can be 15' below the surface. I'm not making this up.... https://mdc.mo.gov/conmag/2020-03/burrowing-crayfish

 

[FeatheredFriends&Horses2]

Okay, someone on the MO thread just pointed out to me that these are called 'burrowing crayfish'--they spend their lives in vast underground tunnel systems. They can be 15' below the surface. I'm not making this up.... https://mdc.mo.gov/conmag/2020-03/burrowing-crayfish

Whatever they're called I always worry about stepping on them when I go to lakes or creeks. Anybody else?

 

[shawluvsbirds]

Okay, someone on the MO thread just pointed out to me that these are called 'burrowing crayfish'--they spend their lives in vast underground tunnel systems. They can be 15' below the surface. I'm not making this up.... https://mdc.mo.gov/conmag/2020-03/burrowing-crayfish

 

[featherhead007]

Dinner!

Sean, When my daughter was 3 yrs old, We bought a Blue crayfish for the fish tank, and she named it "Dinner"

 

[1muttsfan]

Alright, what is a popple and what is Lutefish?
Is it similar to our "charmin snappers?"
We call them Charmin due to they turds and junk. Fish that never leave Marina and just eat handouts and well, turds from live abords who do not pump out on a normal basis.
In the last 10 YEARS, Dock Master and Marine Patrol have fixed the problem.

Popple is a tree called Poplar in other places.

Lutefisk is dried, salted cod pickled in lye. It is of Nordic origin. There were quite a few Swedish and other Nordic settlers an upper Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. It is definitely an acquired taste, which I have not acquired