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California's last native crayfish

Posted: Sat Mar 02, 2024 7:39 pm
by WB Staff
This species is sending all the WRONG signals.
Native to the Pacific Northwest, the signal crayfish has become an unfriendly threat in waters across the country, and even as far as Europe and Asia. It's famous for feasting on anything it can handle. What’s on the menu? Everything from salmon and frog eggs to rare animals like the Shasta crayfish, California's last native crayfish, and the Mazama newt, a species found only in Oregon's Crater Lake.
How you can help: If you find a crayfish, leave it where it is. Don’t move it to another location where it can prey on frog eggs and wreak havoc on the wildlife in streams and creeks. Obey all live bait laws and NEVER release live bait into the wild. Learn more about the signal crayfish's impact to Shasta crayfish in our comments.
Photo: Signal crayfish by Lauren Kong/USFWS

Re: California's last native crayfish

Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2024 12:56 pm
by WRB
The Signal Crayfish has been in the Delta for over a 100 years now, little late to panic.
Consider 99% of the crawdads used for bait in California are imported from Louisiana, the Red Swamp Crayfish.
Tom

Re: California's last native crayfish

Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2024 2:44 pm
by jiggin4bass
All those crawfish listed plus the one in the picture. All make very nice color jigs :D

Re: California's last native crayfish

Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2024 5:04 pm
by pd
Green pumpkin.

Re: California's last native crayfish

Posted: Sun Mar 03, 2024 5:57 pm
by jiggin4bass
Pd leave to the experts when it come to blending skirt colors.

Re: California's last native crayfish

Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:16 am
by hydro
These adaptable ,
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playful crayfish are known to throw discarded skirted jigs such as the one in picture around to each other like a Kush ball

Re: California's last native crayfish

Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2024 11:57 am
by jiggin4bass
They have good taste in which ones there going to toss around :D just watchout for the hook..

Re: California's last native crayfish

Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2024 7:16 pm
by pd
My eyes are very good. It’s green pumpkin. Simple.

Re: California's last native crayfish

Posted: Mon Mar 04, 2024 8:09 pm
by stickbait
jiggin4bass wrote: Sun Mar 03, 2024 5:57 pm Pd leave to the experts when it come to blending skirt colors.
Lets see what you can come up with to..."match the hatch" I'm impressed with your skills !

Re: California's last native crayfish

Posted: Tue Mar 05, 2024 10:27 am
by jiggin4bass
I have two color patterns ive built. Summer pattern and winter pattern. Both turn out really nice.The skirts are in half tabs and layered to come up with the different patterns.