Why learn how to catch crawfish? Well, whether you call them crawdads, crayfish, or mudbugs, crawfish are one of the most lethal live bait you can put on a fishing hook. Any decent smallmouth angler ...

This story began in the strangest of places. I was at the grocery store looking for fresh crawfish for a low country boil. I quickly found packages, and they all had significant problems. Not only ...

We’re getting close to the tail end (pun intended) of this year’s crawfish season, which runs through June, but if you do a bit of looking, you should be able to find a place where you can still buy a ...

Fields of soy and open land flash by on rural Louisiana Highway 167 leading to Ville Platte. Like most two-lane highways in south Louisiana, there is a highly regarded boudin shop at an intersection ...

After countless summers pulling up traps on his family farm, which harvests 300,000 pounds of crawfish a day, David Vercher knows full well how unforgiving the work can be. Crawfishers operate boats ...

It's Crawfish Week at Chron! For five days, the food team will be dropping fun stories about Houston's favorite crustacean. Read all our crawfish coverage here. One morning in late January, Garrett ...

ATCHAFALAYA BASIN — Things still aren't looking too good for crawfishermen out on the Basin. KATC spent some time out in the swamp with Basin crawfisherman Ben Bienvenu to get a better look at what he ...