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Posted on 1/24/24 at 7:55 pm to Riolobo
It dosent matter is idiots pay $6 a pound live they will stay $6 bucks.
Posted on 1/24/24 at 7:56 pm to Riolobo
Lol it doesn’t matter about the rain now. They needed rain for 5 months last year. Crawfish won’t just spawn full sized because a couple inches of rain fell this week
Posted on 1/24/24 at 7:57 pm to deltaland
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The rain is too little too late. Needed to happen a few months ago
I said the same exact thing and got DV’d into oblivion
Posted on 1/24/24 at 7:59 pm to moldy_tiger
Bingo. The crawfish crop that was supposed to be harvested in December and January are non existent because of weather in the summer, while this rain won’t hurt, the effects are already done it won’t help in the short term. Now the long term March and April is yet to be determined but imo it still won’t get to be a normal crawfish season by any means. It’s all about salvaging what we can.
Posted on 1/24/24 at 8:04 pm to Riolobo
I was listening to crawfish expert today.
Some of the crawfish that would be hitting the market right now may have died off during the drought. The heat and lack of rain caused some of the ponds to stay dry caking the mud thicker. When the eggs hatched and the crawfish tried to reach the surface but the thicker mud might have prevented most of crawfish to reach the surface, killing off the huge numbers of the early batch of crawfish.
You would think rain would help, but because the mud dried out so much that it may take a lot more rain to soften the mud before the crawfish are able to reach the surface since mud turned essentially into a cement mixture.
Some of the crawfish that would be hitting the market right now may have died off during the drought. The heat and lack of rain caused some of the ponds to stay dry caking the mud thicker. When the eggs hatched and the crawfish tried to reach the surface but the thicker mud might have prevented most of crawfish to reach the surface, killing off the huge numbers of the early batch of crawfish.
You would think rain would help, but because the mud dried out so much that it may take a lot more rain to soften the mud before the crawfish are able to reach the surface since mud turned essentially into a cement mixture.
Posted on 1/24/24 at 8:09 pm to Riolobo
I heard Mike Strain say this year would be a rough season several months ago
Posted on 1/24/24 at 8:09 pm to WhiteMandingo
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It dosent matter is idiots pay $6 a pound live they will stay $6 bucks.
Universal truth. Same with $80,000 trucks, houses folks can’t afford, record spending while inflation’s at 40 year highs……..yep.
Posted on 1/24/24 at 8:16 pm to SWLA92
I’ve been in acadia parish my whole life (besides my 5 years at LSU) and this boards ignorance to how crawfish farming works is remarkable. They don’t realize that the farmers would rather have the price lower. The sad truth is that they just straight up aren’t catching anything right now. There’s a reason none of the restaurants are open yet and if they are it’s very limited supply. This isn’t on the farmers
Posted on 1/24/24 at 9:31 pm to moldy_tiger
100% I wish we had a normal season with great supply, and the price $2.50lb and boil prices around $5lb. Everyone would be happy and life would be easy
Posted on 1/24/24 at 9:52 pm to Tarps99
Some of these ponds have been flooded up since September the ground has been soft enough for them to come back up, I’m afraid those all died.
Posted on 1/24/24 at 9:54 pm to SWLA92
Unless the rain resurrects the dead crawfish, nope.
Posted on 1/24/24 at 10:24 pm to L5UT1ger
Serious question. If farmers have to flood crawfish ponds , why didn’t they just put “some water during the drought” to avoid the ground being to dry.
Posted on 1/24/24 at 10:33 pm to shaqtaw
We did. We flushed fields in the summer you can’t flood up to soon especially with hot temperatures, it will make the water have poor oxygen levels, that could hurt the crawfish just as bad as no water,but the problem was crawfish bury alone field roads and levees. Only a natural rain soaking the levees and field roads can help. And by the time we put a permanent flood towards the end of September the damage was already done unfortunately.
This post was edited on 1/24/24 at 11:19 pm
Posted on 1/24/24 at 10:35 pm to Riolobo
wind blowing south during the rain instead of north, price going up
Posted on 1/24/24 at 10:35 pm to Obtuse1
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but I stayed in a Motel 6 last night
Hey, at least Tom Bodell left the light on for you.
This post was edited on 1/24/24 at 10:45 pm
Posted on 1/25/24 at 9:22 am to moldy_tiger
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I’ve been in acadia parish my whole life (besides my 5 years at LSU) and this boards ignorance to how crawfish farming works is remarkable. They don’t realize that the farmers would rather have the price lower. The sad truth is that they just straight up aren’t catching anything right now. There’s a reason none of the restaurants are open yet and if they are it’s very limited supply. This isn’t on the farmers
a lot of posters here make fun of how dumb people are on facebook
Look at a facebook posts comments about the lack of crawfish and look at a crawfish thread here and you will see they are the same people
Posted on 1/25/24 at 9:45 am to Riolobo
Hopefully yes but time will tell.
Posted on 1/25/24 at 9:47 am to tgrbaitn08
All ponds have NOT been destroyed due to saltwater. I think one of ours still has those issues. The others never had that issue.
Posted on 1/25/24 at 9:50 am to shaqtaw
We did flood where we could in the areas that we had wells to pump.
BUT it was super expensive to hold that much water. Also when you have 100+ degree temps the water is hot .. my husband assumed that was an issue as well.
I heard him tell someone that he has 500 acres of crawfish and couldn’t catch half of a sack on all of it combined.
BUT it was super expensive to hold that much water. Also when you have 100+ degree temps the water is hot .. my husband assumed that was an issue as well.
I heard him tell someone that he has 500 acres of crawfish and couldn’t catch half of a sack on all of it combined.
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