Some folks love eating crawfish; others can’t bring themselves to taste something that looks so much like a bug. It’s been that way for centuries. Consider this passage from Wild Sports in the Far ...

WINNIE, TX (KTRK) -- It's the peak of crawfish season, and it's become a big business in Texas. Chances are you've had a pound or two, or 10. But have you ever wondered what it takes to get them from ...

HOLLAND, MI -- State fisheries regulators are setting traps this week in Lake Macatawa after an invasive crayfish species known for causing structural damage to shorelines was discovered in a bait ...

As live bait goes, it’s hard to beat crawfish for trout, bass, catfish, and more—yet they are wildly underused. That’s because it’s rare to find them for sale in bait shops. There are no commercial ...

After countless summers pulling up traps on his family farm, which harvests 300,000 pounds of crawfish a day, David Vercher knows full well how unforgiving the work can be. Crawfishers operate boats ...

Clockwise, from top left: minnow, crayfish, sunfish, shad, frog, and grasshopper. Fathead minnows, leeches and worms are mainstays in bait-shop refrigerators across the country. These old standards ...

Fields of soy and open land flash by on rural Louisiana Highway 167 leading to Ville Platte. Like most two-lane highways in south Louisiana, there is a highly regarded boudin shop at an intersection ...