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Crayfish offer an alternative for hunters
sidered food for crayfish
vegetable matter Simple
Contrary to popular belief,
wire traps are available
however, the crayfish likes
commercially, or are easi
its food fresh and is not par-
ly made at home by anyone
with some hardware cloth,
While many of us travel O c u la rly a ttr a c te d to
wire cutters and small
the length and breadth of decomposing materials
This liking for fresh foods
hognngs
our state in pursuit of trout
Traps can be soaked for a
and steelhead, deer and p ro vid e s the key to
few hours while the fisher
elk. others find satisfying transferring good numbers
man goes off in pursuit of
outdoor sport in their own of these anim als from
fish or other recreation
backyards
"The L ittle natural habitat to cooking
But the most effective pro
Sports." are what outdoor kettle Crayfish are easily
cedure is to leave them in
writer Ted Trublood once attracted to a trap with
the water overnight The
dubbed those ancillary out such baits as fresh carp,
"sm ell” of the bait lays
door activities that occupy suckers, scrap meats or
down a trail through the
so many outdoorsmen bet* even, we are told, some
ween and in conjunction
with other major outdoors
events
One of "the little sports *
that is available to sport
smen almost anywhere in
Oregon is pursuit of the
hum ble c r a y fis h . F o r
Lances Ladies w ere
Shamrocks.
some, the crayfish is a
They ended up with a
m ere c u rio s ity . . .th a t knocked out of action third
round this weekend in the
22 14-1 record Although it
so m ew h at
fo rb o d in g
could have been better.
creature with the big claws ASA State Softball Tourna
Staab said it was "a good
seen in the shallows of lake ment, for girls 16-18
In the first round the
season,”
and stream But for many
Ladies were tied 6-6 with
G in a
B r ig a n tic
of
others this crustacean
Gresham ended the season
relative to the lobster pro Salem after seven innings
having scored 39 runs
vides a satisfying outdoors The defense held throught
Rudisill ended up batting
past-time and a delicious the eighth and nineth, with
Shannon Demoret walking
339, and Gray ended up
addition to the fam ily
across the plate and Debbie
with a fielding average of
table
95«.
One or more of three Rudisill knocking in Patty
"She wanted to play and
closely related species of Gray for the final 8-6 win.
It was a "super" game,
win,” Staab said about
crayfish is found in nearly
Gray "That was really ap
every freshwater lake and said Coach Lance Staab,
"and my fingernails are
preciated ”
stream in the state. Like
He felt she had her best
the crab in saltwater, the short ’’
Gray had the only hit in a
season "She outdid herself
freshwater crayfish is part
5-0 loss to Lebanon on
in all aspects,” he said
of Nature's cleanup detail
“ We
ju s t
Rudisill was picked up by
Fish, insects and other S a tu rd a y
Thomas Distributing of
crustace«»«, m am m als, couldn't get any momen
turn going,” Staab said
Salem to compete in the
b ir d s . . v i r t u a l l y
Sandy suffered its second
regional tournament in
anything organic which
Billings, Mont
dies and finds its way into loss. 8-1 against the Eugene
by KEN D U RBIN
Oregon Department of Kith
A Wildlife
water which the crayfish
will follow until they have
located the bait
Youngsters have often
been delighted to learn
they could attach a bait to
the end of a string, and that
a crayfish intent on eating
the bait would often hang
on while drawn gently
through the water to a
waiting dipnet And while
not often terribly produc
tive. kids can have a ball
wading a shallow stream,
turning over rocks, and at
tem pting to catch the
speedy crayfish as they jet
away
In Oregon, no license is
required to take crayfish
and the daily lim it is 50 per
person The season is open
the entire y ear at all hours,
and crayfish may be legal
ly taken by angling, band,
baited line. net. rings and
traps
Near the turn of the cen
tu ry . Oregon was the
number one US producer of
crayfish for the market In
later years. Louisiana took
over this honor, but Oregon
still is an important pro
ducer of crayfish, and the
species found here are priz
ed worldwide for their
eating qualities
Like other crustaceans,
whose skeletal structure is
on the outside of their
bodies, the crayfish can
grow only through a
moulting process wherein
the old shell splits and is
exited by its occupant
which then grows a new.
larger shell to accom
modate a growing body
After molt and during the
growth and hardening of
this new shell, the crayfish
is in what is known as the
"softsheU * state During
th ie tim e it is v e ry
vulnerable and secretive,
hiding itself under rocks or
other cover Some crayfish
are estimated to molt up to
12 times during the first
year Crayfish in warm,
nutrient rich waters grow
faster and larger than ones
in clear, cold water A lare
adult crayfish in Oregon
waters would measure five
inches or more from tip of
nose to end of tail The
average size is smaller
Crayfish are very sen
sitive to water quality and
are good pollution in
dicators When the oxygen
level in the uater goes
down, the crayfish either
die or seek new waters So
the presence of large
numbers of crayfish usual
ly indicates good water
Ladies fall but it
was ‘a good season’
the
water
can
be con-
Dodson’s
take two
for title
Dodson’s Bargain Store
won the city league cham
pionship Tuesday night,
downing Paola's 5-4 and
10-1 in a doubleheader
" It was definitely a team
effort with all the girls pull
ing for each other,” said
John
Dodson
Seven
Bargain Store players hit
over 500, T he team
averaged 450. and played
"great defense” as well
The Sandy Area Softball
Association women s tour
nament will be held Satur
day and Sunday at the high
school field
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