Gandycreek
1st Lieutenant
- Joined
- Apr 29, 2009
- Location
- The Mountain State
Yes sir, mudbugs are good eatin'.
I hear you. It must have been Lake Charles as that is where my first memory of eating them happened. I do love them. Of course I like picking blue crabs also. Ever heard crawfish or mud bugs called craw dads? Now that I think about it I don't know of any shellfish that I do not enjoy. Oh well at least I have that going for me. <g>
The Ragin Cajun!Borderruffian,
2 t0 3 dozen crawdads, gathered from nearby stream. UPSTREAM from where the men have bathed, relieved themselves, or exercised the horses. Chop or twist off upper body of crawdad and throw them to company dog, as only the tail has enough meat to be worth eating.
Sorry, but I could never eat anything I use for bait.
Since you asked, Fort Dix is in the geographic region of the Pine barrens. Crayfish are rare, if present at all in this region because the water is quite acidic. Crayfish, like all crustaceans, need limestone to build their shells and the waters of the Pinelands don't provide that. That said, the waters further west that are part of the Delaware drainage system, or further north of the Fall Line are filled with bass, both large mouth and small mouth and in tidal waters of the Delaware, striped bass. They love crayfish more than the original poster and they can handle any crayfish found in these waters, which, admittedly are about the size of my granddaughter's hand (2 1/2 years old). If you go back to fort Dix try minnows for the good size and good eating pickerel.I spent 10 glorious weeks in your GREAT Garden State at Fort Dix and fishing wasn't on the schedule so I don't know how big the fish are but they must be HUGE to take a crawfish as big as my hand.
Actually, boiling these little lobsters aren't the only way to serve crawfish.
Personally my two favorites are Crawfish Étouffée :
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http://www.thecherryshare.com/food/how-to-make-crawfish-etouffee
And Crawfish Fettuccine Alfredo:
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http://emerils.com/122242/crawfish-fettuccini
Oh yeah, music and a cold beverage are required ingredients no matter how you cook em'.
I enjoy listening to the Beauregard Boys doing their version of " parlez nous a boire ".