I had the day off today and as such I decided to go outside and see the world a little bit. Since winter is nearly here they have shut down the irrigation ditches. The ditches on our side of town feed off of the Poudre River.
Well I was walking along and I saw a crawdad or (crayfish) in one of the pools of water that was left behind.
I used to catch these guys by the bucket load when I was a kid. We never really did anything with them except to see how many we could catch. I know that you can eat them, but I just haven’t ever tried. Something about the mud and the fact I used to catch them in the sewers has totally turned me off to the idea of even trying them..lol.
So anyway I decided to jump down into the ditch and catch it. It just felt like the right thing to do.
You can tell he lost a pincher at some point as one is larger
They are pretty interesting creatures. They are fresh water crustaceans and are indicators of a non-polluted environment.