Author: Janice D. Green

National Crawfish Day is April 17th. Celebrate it with an outside adventure.

Everyone knows about finding crawdads in creeks and ditches, but did you know you could catch one in a hole in the ground with a string and some bacon?

Many years ago when my now-grown daughter (Jonathan’s mom) was very young we saw several funny looking chimneys made of mud our back yard. Not knowing what they were, we asked around and were told that they were made by crawdads that lived under the ground. I often wondered if I could catch one with some bait on a string, but I never got around to trying it. Many years later in a different home in a different town, I noticed some mud chimneys in our ditch.

Then one day I learned that April 17th was National Crawfish Day, I set out to do something that had been on my bucket list for over 40 years–to catch a crawdad in a crawdad hole with a piece of bacon tied to the end of a string. Check out my pictures!