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Crawdad Colors

My first post back I've been gone from wafish for a while. I have to stay up late tonight and was planning on making some jigs. I was wondering if the crawfish in the lakes around here change colors throughout the seasons? Photo examples would be good.

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Permalink Reply by Josh Potter on June 28, 2012 at 9:15am

Larrick- I don't have any photos but I believe all crawdads in all lakes change colors thorughout the year.

The most common color live crawdad I have seen are olive and red or maroon. I have seen them when they are a baby blue color but I don't recall ever seeing one in the summer that was that color. I think a mistake folks make when determinin the color of crawdads is looking at the dead ones in there livewells. All crustacions turn a different color after they are dead.

Permalink Reply by Chad Simon on June 28, 2012 at 10:08am

Mike Bess working his second job!

Permalink Reply by Larrick on June 28, 2012 at 11:45am

Thanks. Josh I've heard a lot about you from Joe.

Permalink Reply by Jon Werner on June 29, 2012 at 2:24pm

Google Signal Crawdad. That will give you many pictures.

Permalink Reply by Josh Potter on July 2, 2012 at 11:55am

I know a handful of guys named Joe. Which Joe would that be?

Larrick said:

Thanks. Josh I've heard a lot about you from Joe.

Permalink Reply by Ryan Higgins on July 3, 2012 at 9:50am

I've seen crawfish with a deep green back and orange belly, light grey back with a chart/orange belly, and deep red with black here and there. These are all out of east side lakes and res. I prefer to fish the hot mustard color from Rapala to imitate craws, works well for me.

Permalink Reply by Mike Bess on July 3, 2012 at 4:50pm

Joe Mama

Josh Potter said:

I know a handful of guys named Joe. Which Joe would that be?

Larrick said:

Thanks. Josh I've heard a lot about you from Joe.

Permalink Reply by Mike Bess on July 3, 2012 at 4:52pm

How many more tournament beatings does it take to shut your hole?

Chad Simon said:

Mike Bess working his second job!

Permalink Reply by David Parnicky on July 4, 2012 at 12:43am

Here's a crawdad for you! Tito found this BEAST in Lake Samish last weekend! Great colors on it but beware, glancing at this picture has been known to cause nightmares!!

Permalink Reply by Ryan Higgins on July 4, 2012 at 1:43am

Got Damn that is one hell of a crawfish, doesnt that classify as a lobster at that point?

Permalink Reply by Joe Boyd on July 4, 2012 at 12:23pm

Good info here. One thing to remember, crawdads can imitate their surroundings. If you can duplicate the colors you might find on the bottom, you could/should be pretty much on.

Permalink Reply by Joe Boyd on July 4, 2012 at 12:26pm

I think I'm the Joe, but I was talking to Larrick about fishing with Josh Hanson.

Josh Potter said: