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Growers and distributors are expecting a very good harvest this season with plenty of water in the fields, unlike with last year’s disaster. However there is the caveat that peak season might be delayed a bit due to last week’s freeze but, overall, numbers and pricing shouldn’t be affected. 

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Semi related I always buy frozen tails at central market, perfect for etouffee. packaging says Louisiana/cajun official sourcing from farms there. Last CM trip they had all been replaced with the china shit. Not gruntled. 

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14 hours ago, Bevo&Pevo said:

Orleans Seafood off I-10 in Katy had 'em last week.

Lucy never eats December snowflakes and I never eat January crawfish.

 

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Gonna be a good year. Of course anything would be good compared to last year's crawfish season. 

Some of the markets down on the coast are already selling live crawfish. Boyd's in Texas City is currently at $4.88/lb. At this rate I'm thinking an early March crawfish boil might be in the cards. 

Need to text my guy soon and find out when he's planning to start making his Saturday morning runs over to Louisiana to load up his big refrigerated truck.

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7 hours ago, Mez2 said:

Mudbugs might be up there with tuddies

Why? It's an extremely common term, been around as long as I've been alive and eating them.  It dates back to the 50s at least.

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On 1/29/2025 at 4:21 PM, utee94 said:

Why? It's an extremely common term, been around as long as I've been alive and eating them.  It dates back to the 50s at least.

Mez probably calls them crawdaddies. 

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On 1/29/2025 at 4:21 PM, utee94 said:

Why? It's an extremely common term, been around as long as I've been alive and eating them.  It dates back to the 50s at least.

Then it's been a regarded term since the 50s? 

Don't get me wrong, I'ma still eat em just gonna call them by their government name

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13 minutes ago, Mez2 said:

Then it's been a regarded term since the 50s? 

Don't get me wrong, I'ma still eat em just gonna call them by their government name

I’d like to see you call them procambarus clarkii around a bunch of coonasses 

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I don't call them mudbugs, but I understand it's pretty common in Louisiana.  In different places I've lived they are called crayfish, crawdads, and crawfish.  Just don't over cook them and you can call them whatever you want. 

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15 hours ago, horn4life said:

About the only thing mudbugs are good for now... Is staging dick pics for boils in April? 😉

 

That is one strange fetish, but you do you.

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13 hours ago, TonyTexas said:

I’d like to see you call them procambarus clarkii around a bunch of coonasses 

Ok, what time? 

 

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On 1/29/2025 at 12:12 PM, Storm the Field said:

Some of the markets down on the coast are already selling live crawfish. Boyd's in Texas City is currently at $4.88/lb. At this rate I'm thinking an early March crawfish boil might be in the cards. 

Saw $2.88/lb Tuesday and Wednesday this week. They charge much higher prices on the weekends, but prices are already dropping fast.

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10 minutes ago, Storm the Field said:

Saw $2.88/lb Tuesday and Wednesday this week. They charge much higher prices on the weekends, but prices are already dropping fast.

Size will be the problem this early in the season

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On 1/31/2025 at 9:43 PM, horn4life said:

About the only thing mudbugs are good for now... Is staging dick pics for boils in April? 😉

 

Oddly specific. 

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I have a work boil tomorrow. Hoping for the best. It is free after all. 
 

At a minimum, I will compliment them for their timing. Final week of rodeo and first day of March Madness. It’s not like we were going to be working anyway. My rodeo boil was unfortunately killed off during Covid, so this is the next best thing. 

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We got a sack from Fiesta and did a boil on Saturday, they were still pretty small but I don't think I had to toss a single one as bad.  

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I had my first batch on Sunday. Buddy grabbed 2 sacks from our mutual supplier that drives over from LA on the weekends. Decent size and not a lot of dead loss, but still close to $4/lb at the moment.

I've read that catches were pretty light in late February/early March and demand has been sky high.  Seafood markets I keep an eye on have been selling out real quick and still having days where they don't get any at all. Luckily it sounds like things have been picking up lately.

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In his newsletter they guy from stuffed saying similar…

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I could almost copy & paste what I wrote last week.  Almost.  The catch is still down & the market was short again.  Fortunately I was given a heads up so we stopped taking orders on Tuesday for the weekend and only had to make a few painful phone calls.  Getting your orders in early is certainly paying off at the moment.  The catch is still coming in less than 50% of what would be considered normal for our current conditions.  Last week I said no one was in a panic yet regarding the season but I heard it this time with a little less conviction.  As of the time of this writing (Monday evening) the catch is holding steady but it hasn't improved.  I ate the price increase last week but they raised prices again so I have to move ours up too.  Prices won't come back down until the supply comes up or the demand drops down.  I don't see the demand dropping so only more crawfish will fix the price.  
Ending on an optimistic note, the overall feeling is that things will get better. What I know for certain is that the sizes of the crawfish are definitely getting better.  And on an even more positive note, my dad said the fish were biting this past weekend in the little pond he fishes where they hadn't been the week before.  I'll take that as a good sign...   

 

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Fun day. Sure as hell beats working.

I counting probably a half dozen dead loss in about 5 pounds. Decent size.

The guy that puts on the boil is an outstanding fella, but he lets them rest in the cooler too long before service. It causes about 75% of his yield to get kind of limp instead of a nice tight tail.

i tried everything to time it right for freshness, but i got a few not great batches. The later batch was better of course because the water gets progressively spicer. 
 

I’ll grin and bear it because he’s a coworker. That said, I’ll gladly pay White Oak BB’s the money for better quality crawfish seasoned the way I like it. 

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Didn't do a boil last year.  Want to do one this year.  May not have a weekend to do so until May 3-4.  That's usually a good week or two after we usually do so, but I expect we should still be in the money.  Thoughts?

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11 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Didn't do a boil last year.  Want to do one this year.  May not have a weekend to do so until May 3-4.  That's usually a good week or two after we usually do so, but I expect we should still be in the money.  Thoughts?

Should be good.  That was the normal weekend for a friend's annual boil, pre-pandemic.

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15 hours ago, Brisketexan said:

Didn't do a boil last year.  Want to do one this year.  May not have a weekend to do so until May 3-4.  That's usually a good week or two after we usually do so, but I expect we should still be in the money.  Thoughts?

Should be fine on crawfish, but weather will be a crapshoot. Buddy of mine used to do a boil first Saturday of May. Some years it's 80 and perfect, some years it's the first weekend with heat index touching triple digits. Moved it to mid-April the last few years.

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I had a meeting in Lake Charles last week.  I stopped off at Steamboat Bill's.  They were just ok, they have been better there in prior years.  Where else in that town should i have gone?

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1 hour ago, TonyTexas said:

The one thing I hate about late season crawfish is that the shells get so hard that they tear my fingers up. 

Other than the price, probably the only drawback at BB’s. Their crawfish always have hard shells. You’re leaving with a blister if you go through 5 pounds. 

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Got 2lbs of their boiled real quick right outside HEB on south congress today. 
 

garlicky but good, the bugs were decent size and shells were nice. Wish HEB would commercially purge theirs prior, lots of shit in them

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Supply has been increasing the past 2 weeks or so, which means prices are finally starting to come down to earth and vendors are taking a little later in the day to sell out. Starting to see field run at sub-$3 though weekend prices remain elevated. Couple more weeks of moderate weather and things should be looking much better by mid-April.

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