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Carich980

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Crayfish?
« on: October 26, 2011, 01:31:14 PM »
Hey there,
Just wondering if there is any Crayfish in the Vedder River?

Thanks.

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cutthroat22

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Re: Crayfish?
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2011, 01:31:53 PM »
Yes
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BwiBwi

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Re: Crayfish?
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2011, 01:32:14 PM »
Yes.  I've seen a few of them below Hwy 1 bridge.
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Re: Crayfish?
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2011, 04:23:06 PM »
I found a dead one in the sleepy hollow area a couple weeks ago. It was a larger blue crayfish with orange sides, incase you want to tie up some flys.
« Last Edit: October 26, 2011, 04:34:33 PM by ChumChaser »
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Dave

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Re: Crayfish?
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2011, 05:55:51 PM »
Crayfish are common in Sweltzer Creek and Cultus Lake.  Stomach contents of Northern pikeminnows sampled from Cultus Lake showed they were a key predator of smaller, perhaps juvenile crayfish; now that there are fewer larger NPM I would think crayfish populations would flourish in Cultus.
About 20 years ago they were also common in the Vedder canal area but I recall seeing many Gees type minnow traps set for crayfish.  How many were captured or whether this exploitation contributed to their decline in this area I cannot say. For sure they are not as common as before.
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Carich980

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Re: Crayfish?
« Reply #5 on: October 26, 2011, 09:30:45 PM »
Yes I'm going to tie some Crayfish flies, I saw a pattern in Fly Tyer magazine and thought it may work well around here.
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JPW

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Re: Crayfish?
« Reply #6 on: October 27, 2011, 08:46:41 AM »
I've also seen a bunch of crayfish in the Stave fwiw.
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Re: Crayfish?
« Reply #7 on: October 28, 2011, 08:40:18 AM »
I also saw a dead crayfish on the Stave a couple of weeks ago.

I have a pic of it if you want.
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JPW

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Re: Crayfish?
« Reply #8 on: October 28, 2011, 12:01:05 PM »
Quote from: Easywater on October 28, 2011, 08:40:18 AM
I also saw a dead crayfish on the Stave a couple of weeks ago.

I have a pic of it if you want.


How big was the one you saw?  I was actually quite amazed by how large the ones I saw were.  I would have expected something shrimp size, but these definitely looked like baby lobsters!  I wonder if you can floss them?  ;D
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cutthroat22

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Re: Crayfish?
« Reply #9 on: October 28, 2011, 02:10:33 PM »
Stave is loaded with them.
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Easywater

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Re: Crayfish?
« Reply #10 on: October 28, 2011, 03:41:30 PM »
I think it was pretty big - about 2 or 3 inches.

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Re: Crayfish?
« Reply #11 on: October 28, 2011, 06:11:17 PM »
A couple of the ones I saw seemed like they were even bigger than that from tail to end of claw.  They looked like this guy:
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Re: Crayfish?
« Reply #12 on: October 29, 2011, 12:04:43 AM »
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Re: Crayfish?
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