Crayfish, aka crawdads, are a staple of bass diets in fresh waters in most of the mid-Atlantic area. Other fish eat them, too, as discussed below, and some streams owe their trophy brown trout to a ...

Join us for a cajun crawfish boil while we enhance our backyard bass pond with the installation of new features, including ...

We set crawfish traps at our farm and feed them to our pet bass in a 300-gallon aquarium. The setup includes 3 Kessil 90W Tuna Sun lights, Eco Complete substrate, and 3 500W Finnex heaters. Water ...

Come fall, a bass’ fancy turns to crayfish. Not that facsimiles of this tasty crustacean won’t catch bass throughout much of the year. But when the leaves turn brown, largemouth and smallmouth bass ...

Bass are opportunistic feeders that eat whatever moves in the water—minnows, crayfish, frogs, insects, and even other bass. Their feeding activity depends primarily on water temperature: They're most ...

Spotted bass love crawfish like kids love candy. This season, if you go fishing for spots, or Kentucky bass as they’re often called, wrap your mind around that fact, and don’t let go. You can catch ...

During my younger years, I kept a 6-inch bass in an aquarium so I could monitor the fish's behavior and apply what I learned to my fishing strategies. I gained a ton of knowledge from that little bass ...

When Geoff Smith checks the stomachs of bass to see what they’ve been eating, he mostly finds crayfish. Bass also will strike other invertebrates such as mayflies and dobsonfly larvae. They don’t shy ...

I have a farm pond plagued with crawdads that undermine the banks, causing them to collapse. The resulting shallow water warms up enough to permit algae to grow and allow cattails to take over. The ...