How To CATCH, COOK, AND CLEAN Rusty Crawfish (Invasive Species)

Learn how to CATCH, COOK, AND CLEAN Rusty Crawfish in today's video! We team up with my Catch and Cook Partner, Josh Mcfaddin to boil up some delicious Lake of the Woods Crawfish! Hope you enjoy.
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[@aaronempringham6338]

How hasn’t Jay hit 100k yet the quality is soooo good I don’t see how it’s possible

[@heinrichbier4759]

I’d have to agree

[@azviking139]

Because he doesn’t fish for bass 24/7. The only freshwater channels that blow up catch largemouth every video

[@heinrichbier4759]

Plus you have to realize so many channels pay to boost their likes and whatnot. Jay is the real deal, 100% organic growth.

[@pywifishingandoutdoors]

Bc hes canadian lol

[@knutegjesdal4317]

True that

[@50finders21]

Did my first craw boil here in MN this summer, the claw meat on the big ones are the best parts!!

[@Powerofone09]

Did my first crawdad boil few weeks ago and I am hooked! So glad you put out this video, Jay!!

[@garzo79]

Awesome use of resources! Been really loving all the catch and cook spices! great job fellas!

[@beesteezy18]

Doin it right yet again Jay. You got apbassin out on the lake last time, can you get old uncut angling out next round 🧐

[@jamesiv960]

We need some Aaron!

[@auto_5]

Seconded!

[@desertfairychickres4021]

Ya'll did pretty good for your first time. It's GREAT eating once ya get the seasoning down. Blessings

[@JaySiemens]

Thanks!!

[@gearlist]

Looks awesome! Great work 💯

[@rite2beararms]

On Cass Lake right now and found your video while looking into how to prep these little guys. Love the presentation and film quality! The crayfish here are HUGE! We'll be doing the boil tonight for sure. Thanks for the vid and I'm subscribed for sure!

[@markhus1403]

Thanks for sharing the Fed by Fire channel. Gonna watch that channel. Also, great video on cooking the crawfish!

[@markhus1403]

🤔 you mentioned something about Meateater in a previous video and now you have a Meateater shirt on. 🤔 I wonder what's up

[@danielostman5805]

here in sweden it is tradition to fish and eat crawfish! it is awesome! the whole famely and friends get together and have a great time and eat! :D

[@matttig]

That looked soo good 👍 great job I’ll have to try the new seasonings !!!

[@JaySiemens]

Do it!!!

[@brentbazaire3070]

I use your seasoning and catch n cook batter for everything. I am hooked!

[@JaySiemens]

Thats awesome!!

[@jamesiv960]

Music choices are great! Your editing style is fantastic.

[@JaySiemens]

Thank you so much!

[@tbvm]

Jay, great video as always! As the cooler weather moves in, can you discuss how you maintain your motor/boat in freezing weather? I'd like to head north in October but always worry about my engine freezing up. Ex, northern/southern Manitoba walleye tour from last year. Any info would be nice as I'd love to get up to northwest ontario for an October bite! Keep up the great work Jay. Your videos are always motivating!

[@chrisbraun11]

Might have to try this at the cottage, we have a plethora of crawfish around the docks. Great video man!

[@SaskFisher]

That was awesome! When I was younger we ate these guys. Loved them! This makes me want to do this again! Great video....as usual! Tight lines!

[@JaySiemens]

Thanks so much!

[@shanekeenan1274]

I’m so glad you did this video because I was honestly going to call the MNR to ask about this! 😂

[@jacobrushforth8834]

Gawd dayum that fed by fire trailer is amazing!

[@Boondock84]

Was really hoping this video was going to be KBI 2021 but this is pretty sweet, will definitely be trying this

[@billmcarthur2012]

Had my 1st craws @ Captains boil. Thoroughly enjoyed them but you sure do work for those bites!

[@MikeSmith-du9gh]

Awesome vid jay! God bless 🙌

[@forrestnutter]

My inlaws in south LA are gonna love this.

[@gregporth356]

That was some pretty sweet camera work at the end

[@americanvarietyoutdoors]

Fun video. Looks like something I should try.

[@JaySiemens]

You should!

[@garlicrebel5001]

Only a true man eats his seafood/lakefood in this case, with his hands! excellent video good sir.

[@JaySiemens]

Thank you kindly!

[@michaelmontalto]

Well done. If you want to go pro on this, get yourself a cleaning bucket that is circulated. This will remove all the mud from the crawfish. Then add them to the boiled salt water. Ya'll ate well but you ate dirty and didn't know it. Then again, you're up in Canada and the water is far cleaner than down in Louisiana.

[@richarddeangelo1379]

I mentioned in another reply that I leave them in minnow buckets hanging off my dock for a day or two, and they clean out nicely. But I still purge them inna big bucket with salt (Google it), and boil them extra to kill the Giardia. And BTW fish carcasses are the BEST bait. Save your lake……eat rusty crayfish!

[@JaySiemens]

Thanks for the tip!

[@Girlnextdoor102030]

Sam promised there would be a video, it did not disappoint!!!

[@44Wizards]

Yeah that was super cool gang! Always love something different 😃

[@JaySiemens]

Glad you liked it!!

[@masonstack5953]

Lakefront property at last mountain lake my whole life, as a kid walked down to the water with bbq tongs, flashlight and ice cream pail in the dark, got chewed by mosquitos for hours but came back to the cabin with Pail full of crayfish begged dad to wake up and cook em up for us, amazing memories! ❤️

[@JaySiemens]

Love it!

[@matthewbeckwith663]

The toad was straight up flexing 💪on you 🤣 This was a fun video

[@mksouthon9508]

I like to just cook. I have a hard time catching so the catch and clean usually is done at my local fish market for me

[@richarddeangelo1379]

Easiest things to catch - buy a Frabill trap for like 10 bucks, throw in some fish carcasses, hang off your dock (touching bottom) overnight. They like gravel/sand/rock bottom, muck bottom not as productive.

[@michaelstrand5259]

Love this one, Jay! Our family does a crayfish boil every year on LOTW. It can be a lot of work for the small pieces of meat, but it is SO worth the effort. Thanks for switching things up and keeping it interesting.

[@JaySiemens]

Great social activity!

[@loganroberge7632]

Love the video ! If you want the big ones only go out at night with a headlamp and walk along the shore. They are out in mass numbers at night making it easy picking . We would get hundred a night of the large size craws in temagami region. Your batter would be some killer on bull frog legs :p

[@metalfly88]

Damn brother!! Got to get you guys down here to Mississippi!!

[@Hogbellylife]

Fed by fire looks amazing

[@ryanmay2360]

I always thought that you should do a salt water soak in a bucket rinse and repeat until the water is clear , to remove any junk from the crayfish before cooking? But I am assuming that the boiling water does the same thing . Thanks for the video keep up the great work

[@darrensnorthernlife1184]

Looks delish

[@youtubzkoz]

crazy like a crawdad! NEED A SHIRT WITH THAT ON IT LOL

[@FishingWithBottles]

I got the trap out right now for some big Signal Craws! Am I making paella or gumbo? Lifes tough choices...

[@MrKaido93]

What an awesome Crayfish catching adventure! What was the longest , biggest size you guys caught? There are lots of Rusty Crayfish in my area that I catch. They are aggressive and taste superb when properly cooked! Over the years I discovered that using 16 - and 18 inch long stainless steel Food Tongs are a very effective implement to use to catch individual Crayfish. The long stainless steel Food Tongs also act as an effective Personal Protecive Safety Device against dangerous animals like SnappingTurtles, Minks, Racoons etc. As well as safely picking up dangerous Broken Glass Bottles, which can be encountered in Brooks and Streams . I found that the well designed and made Crayster Snake River Trap to be very effective at catching lots of numbers of big crayfish. Safe Crayfish catching adventures!

[@angc214]

Can't wait for summer so I can go out and do this. What lake was that?

[@cameronrunquist4108]

If they're invasive why is there a limit period? Just curious

[@richarddeangelo1379]

Makes no sense. In MN it is 25lbs limit, and even that is silly. I can catch that overnight off my docks! Think about “purging” them with salt to empty their poop chute, but I find leaving them unfed in a minnow bucket off the dock for a day or so cleans them out. I boil them hard 12-15 minutes to make sure you kill the Giardia. Made that undercooking mistake only once, never again. Claws are worth cracking open. Good video!

[@heinrichbier4759]

They impose silly limits like this to keep themselves to stay relevant and impose their authority over you.

[@tyfaichney3165]

Invasive or not, completely decimating a species can be harmful to the ecosystem

[@richarddeangelo1379]

@@tyfaichney3165 Ty, maybe you haven’t really experienced them. In my 40,000 acre MN lake (and throughout MN, WI, MI and now million-acre Lake of the Woods) they have turned entire bays of cabbage weed into literal barren wastelands, drastically reducing largemouth, northern and panfish habitat and populations. They kill all the native crayfish. They occupy every inch of the bottom, and they grow so large so quickly that any predators can’t dent the populations. Like Asian carp and spiny waterfleas and Eurasian milfoil, they don’t belong here, and any fisheries biologist will explain they soon dominate the ecosystem. So I will personally trap and eat my legal limit and encourage expanded limits and commercial fishing of them to TRY to provide some counterbalance, but I expect they will permanently distort if not destroy all these ecosystems. I look at them like underwater murder hornets - not a lot of redeeming features. Except in a pot.

[@dakotagreg1177]

Ontario DNR is just as as bad as Minnesota DNR. Insane amount of trivial regulations, excessive taxation, and intense punishments. This is an example of how its both detrimental to conservation and offensive to liberty. If anyone argues against, they are just accused of wanting to completely plunder natural resources. Though I am no fan of the state, North Dakota DNR is far more reasonable then MN/Ontario. Maximizing conservation effectiveness with maximum liberty should be the goal.

[@jtothefx]

How did I miss this vid… let’s goooooo!

[@Northof54]

New subscriber her for Josh!! Looks Great!!

[@kellybrian6495]

You need to get catch and cook at Scheels!

[@JaySiemens]

One day!!

[@swivels]

Rusty Crawfish... sounds like a band from the south! 😅

[@ClaytonSchickOutdoors]

Josh is the best!

[@Sammie2real]

Yall overcooked them that's why they were hard to peel. The tails should pop right out without a fork. Watch a video on how we boil them here in Louisiana. I would love to try this species, the ones I'm use to don't look like this.

[@GeneDuaneMarc]

Where's the potato? Classic LOW (Lake of the Woods) country boil! Once a year requirement. Great video fellas!

[@JaySiemens]

Thanks so much!!

[@tyler6147]

The only thing this video lacked is a band with an accordion in it and a bunch of Cajuns. LOL

[@FishfearmeStudios]

Very tasty no doubt.

[@gthrow4687]

Ah, reminds me of catching those late at the lakeshore and boiling them in a cup of water over the fire for a late night snack

[@brandonyoung9218]

The best crawdad traps keep the bait contained in the center of the trap so the crawdads cannot eat your bait from the outside of the trap, and those bigger craws have great tasting claws too

[@drewandcharlie7583]

I live in southwest Washington state. If there was any lake where crawfish were that plentiful it would be a big deal. I mean we got coho king and steelhead salmon for days. Also have good warmwater fisheries and huge sturgeon but if i could spend a year on your lake i’d trade the world. Apparently the columbia river has huge walleye but no one fishes em except in the far east of the state

[@julzsirizzotti2164]

That claw meat is so tender 👍🏻👍🏻

[@kurts34]

yum

[@gnutty9]

That toad be flexin

[@MountainStateAngler]

Rusty hun? What’s the difference between those and ones we have here in Colorado? Besides them being half a lobster size here :D

[@daved2403]

If they are invasive, I"m surprised they don't just let you take as many as you want just to get rid of them.

[@chrisnorlock9648]

fed by fire looks... fire

[@joshmcfads5916]

Thanks homie 🙏🏻

[@ashtonlisk5855]

Down here in colorado we boil 200+ in one day of catching

[@shanebarbeau4557]

Invasive Round Goby catch clean cook up next??

[@jenniepeterson15]

When is the best time of year to trap crayfish?

[@JJTFishing]

No salt purge? Looks great by the way.

[@0731bart]

Yah Jay purge them with salt. While still alive pour a bunch of salt in the bucket. They will barf up all their nasty gut stuff(the green stuff you see inside) they are way cleaner to eat this way.

[@richarddeangelo1379]

Yup. I soak them off the dock in a minnow bucket(s) at least overnight so they move out some of that poop, remove any dead ones, then purge. What I do to purge (interested to hear others’ approach) is put all the crayfish in a big bucket, just cover with fresh water, then pour on handfuls of salt. I let them sit about 1/2 hour, stir them up, pour off the salt water (not on your lawn), then fill with fresh water again, stir them up, drain and you’re ready. Those “mud veins” are kind of gross, pull them out when peeling.

[@elhaouziafishing]

Nice bro

[@nilsambec4534]

you can remove intestines really fast before cooking them by twisting then pulling the telson (middle "fin" of their tail). I cannot tell for how painfull it can be for them though, some countries consider that it is a way to kill them and avoid any realease/escape of invasive crayfish specimens.

[@debraberg1763]

Thanks for the info. I'd heard that you can pull the tail after they are cooked, not before.

[@WrokBindsor]

Sioux Narrows Étouffée or Crayfish and dirty rice or Cajun style rice not too bad!

[@unclejeffro]

if you have a water tank you can keep them couple days and get all the turd out b4 you eat them. jus a heads up

[@JaySiemens]

Good to know!! Thanks!

[@AirLancer]

I don't get why there's a catch limit for an invasive species. I'd assume it's just in case people aren't actually differentiating between native and invasive species, and just making sure they don't overfish the native ones.

[@shawnmccallion5436]

Can you eat all of the crawfish species on ontario?

[@JoeIsOut2lunch]

So I did a bit of scrolling and didn’t see an immediate question so I’ll ask it. I’ve had crawfish in Louisiana. Are Canadian crayfish the same thing or close enough to eat? Are there some that taste bad?

[@spoterkill]

Do you ever purge your crayfish first

[@Northof54]

Great vid as usual!! Just a thought but if they are a invasive species why would they put a limit on them??? Makes no sense to me. Please enlighten me Anyone!!!

[@dalbert4991]

Different, but cool 😎

[@JaySiemens]

Thanks!!

[@davidlewis9572]

We call em mudbugs ……..need some Tony’s n Bays crab n crawfish boil . Y’all making yankee crawfish ….🤪

[@charleswallace6403]

Enlarge the holes on the trap so the bigger ones can get in easier if they're not any regulations on entrance opening.

[@richarddeangelo1379]

In MN the trap opening diameter can legally only be 1.5”, purportedly to exclude baby turtles that would drown - but you’re right, it excludes some of them big crawdaddies too. Never seen a baby turtle in my traps. Maybe adjusting your traps to a “generous” 1.5” should be considered.

[@charleswallace6403]

@@richarddeangelo1379 i think the factor holes are one inch. That extra half of an inch would help out alot!

[@christopherdiotte7631]

next video jay is going to catch the world record pike

[@jmill5858]

do the craws last boil 2 minutes then let soak for 15

[@roberthodge2771]

Lake of the Woods is what state? One here in southern OR

[@mikedias246]

Only Ontario would have a limit on catching invasive species for consumption. So if you dont want us to eat them what do you plan on doing to rid of them?

[@colinschell8978]

Let’s go

[@alexkai4483]

Wondering is legal to catch them in the Lake of The Wood but from the MB side? And believe me, those are just babies compared to the size I was catching back home in Ukraine :)

[@JaySiemens]

I believe it is illegal in MB.

[@thomasliptrott3834]

I honestly thought the thumbnail was a Ranch Fairy video.

[@jefflowney2114]

Where was my invite guys!

[@canadianmeatpie8245]

Look video like this that stray away from the normal walleye vids. Backwoods Adventures in the future perhaps?

[@JaySiemens]

Definitely!

[@alauclair3697]

And I’m starving lol

[@shane10]

Well to each their own but the way you just cooked those are the reason people from the south make fun of us here in Wisconsin lol you gotta leave the head bro! And definitely work on your seasonings hahah if you like them like that then obviously go right on ahead but a little spice goes a long way when cooking mud bugs

[@mcdiddles3311]

Yeehaw

[@pray332]

Bacon is the ticket!!

[@jenniferbunker2757]

so you only eat the tail ?

[@reidsimonson]

Well that answers that question. After 25 years LoW still has rustys.

[@Hogbellylife]

If they are a invasive species. You think they would let you take as many as you want.

[@kylebarber7574]

Canada's own Steve Rinella

[@JaySiemens]

Goals.

[@kylebarber7574]

@@JaySiemens speaking of goals. Uhmmm. Meat eater das boat eppy??? That's gonna be sweet. Makes sense with your new shirts in every video you've been putting out

[@shebeeb8979]

പൊളി

[@kevinfuller4260]

Put some mushrooms in it and garlic cloves

[@JaySiemens]

Good to know!

[@RobWenzel84]

Crawdads are my my favorite 😍, they are so delicious, you forgot to suck the juices out of the head, that's the tastiest

[@emreapperson766]

whyd you put them in water? I thought theyd drown

[@waxman262]

I'm surprised there's a limit if they are in an invasive

[@JaySiemens]

Yeah, kinda strange!

[@chen85]

now Jay I have a problem Manitoba don’t let me catch any with out giving me a huge fine

[@SuperKingDAC]

Yup, we were talking to conservation officers at Falcon Lake if we could do it under their supervision on-site and they said as soon as we put some in a bucket they’d have to fine us. I don’t blame them but it’s unfortunate we have to just watch the crayfish live the life of wrecking the lake

[@roberthodge2771]

ODFW in White City, OR told me 100 each person.

[@roberthodge2771]

Given they overdose of Invasive; why the limit on non-Signal native crawfish.