How long will a crawdad live?
Boy that’s something, you got me over a barrel there. I would say in the neighborhood of not more than five years. I’d take 500 dozen soft craws to a guy named Bill Bruins on Wolf Creek road, then take 500 dozen to Lawrence at Anglers Bait shop in Englewood. Lawrence wanted to buy all I had so Bill couldn’t get any. He would get up on the back of the truck to root around to see if I had anymore. I told him if I caught him up on the truck again I wouldn’t sell him anymore bait. Those were the good ole days. I hauled crawls out of Indiana because they couldn’t get the price out of them in Indiana what you could in Ohio. I’d get a dollar more a dozen in Ohio. I always used that for a leverage bar. If you want soft crawls you buy minnows, night crawlers, and everything else off me. I ain’t giving you the gravy without the potatoes! Yep! It was a leverage bar. Nobody else had them see. Once in a while some guys would go out and catch a few and take them to a dealer to sell, but within two o
