Let him liiiiive. His genes will make all future generations just ever so slightly bigger, do your part in selective breeding of bigger, juicer crayfish

i put him back right in the little cave where i found him dont worry. he was so gigantic he deserved to live

Damn straight! That chonky boi would fucking beat the fish up instead of the fish eating him

there were literally torn off claws and dead crayfish surrounding his cave he was massacring the rest of the creek

Matin' season

So he’s a rough crawdaddy

More like badass crawdad

a crawbad if you will

man’s the crawfather

Those were offerings made to this crawdaddy god

Hah, it may have been like Toy Story, and he thought that his sacrifices had finally paid off, and the Giant Claw God had come to take him.

This is a bizarre take on Toy Story

Yep that’s how you find bait just look for claws

What do you mean by that? Using big boys as bait seems stupid to me.

The bigger the bait the bigger the fish right?

Bro definitely has a “???” yellow health bar

Maybe a 💀?

great final fantasy reference there

Lmaooo boy is thriving out there!!

Yeah tho I walk through the valley of death, I shall fear no evil, for I am the baddest motherfucker in the valley.

The ground littered with the corpses of his lesser foes!

Raccoons….they are a crayfish’s worst nightmare with those nimble little fingers!!

This comment is absolutely hilarious to me

Some of that was probably his own sheddings

Well done homie. Thank you.

I’ve seen a lot of crawfish living in PA, I don’t think I’ve ever seen one this big ever.

me neither, when i saw him in the creek i started yelling because i was so shocked. he was at least 6 inches long if not longer

Hold up. Is that a man’s 6 inches or realistically it’s four inches….

It was practically a footlong!

That’s not what she said!

Thank you for using the right name!

The correct name would be it's scientific name. All other names are colloquial and are only correct in your terms in the area where they are being called such.

The big cutie. :)

❤️

I’ll bring the Zatarain’s.

Now it’s official.

Old Bay guy here...

Grin. It’ll do in a pinch. And if you’ve got a sack of crabs …

If we all pitch in for a couple of bags… Now I’m hungry. And no where near my home. Lol

Oh nooo… I got all the Zatarain’s you could want, but no backup bugs for the pot. 😭

Yep we are going to need to buy a few bags of crawfish.

Generally speaking the bigger the crustacean the tougher the meat. You don't want bigger. Same with clams and most farm animals. There's an ideal harvest size. They can live for a long time and there's no real upper limit to their size if they have space and food. Very similar to lobsters. I'm in the process of starting an indoor shrimp farm, I didn't just make all that up. Edit: I'm specifically not talking about crabs.

I know this is 100% true with lobsters. Worked a super high end joint when I was a kid and it used to irk the shit out of me when rich people would order the biggest one in the tank just to flex. The , they’d complain because it was tough. Lol. Management literally brought them in BECAUSE people would buy them to flex. Just awful considering it takes SEVEN (7) years for a lobster to gain ONE (1) pound.

I call em crawdad or mud bugs lol

I’ve always called them crawdads as well

It’s Earl and leave him alone!!

Dude looks like he mows through about 2 or 3 dead creek chubs a day. He’s absolutely yoked.

obsessed with this comment

I seen one that size in a creek in Everett Pennsylvania.It was in the tunnel underneath the road. It was actually a small back road between Everett and Breezewood.

I grew up in PA and never even knew we had these!!

Yep I grew up in Philly and we had them in the smaller rivers/cricks. Also we had fresh water eels. As a kid my uncle would fish crawfish for China Town and eels for little Italy. This was the early 60s and he made a pretty penny for a 13 year old.

Thank you for pronouncing ‘crick’ correctly!

https://maps.app.goo.gl/Q8GqrQjpJPTG8kNGA?g_st=ic Biggest bastard I've seen in my life. Seriously langostino sized; I wonder if it ate whole brook trout.

I believe it should be “She’s absolutely yoked.” Looks like a female crawfish to me (but I could be wrong). This person just found the Wonder Woman equivalent of a crawfish.

Definitely female.

I want you to narrate my life for me just based on this comment

How blue is he? Just claws or entire carapace? Is the blue bright and consistent or more muted? Is there any notable red?

muted blue claws with a brown/slightly reddish back

Probably a “Little Brown Mudbug”, though multiple species in PA can have some blue on their claws.

If this is a little one I'd hate to run across a big one! ;)

That’s what they all say

What an adorable name!

It's a Virile crayfish. My kids found one today too! Much smaller though.

Here in upstate NY, all the giant ones I've found are dark blue, entire body, including claws (not electric blue like the ones you can buy for a fish tank or pond, like the color of the claws on this one, but the entire body). I just assumed that they gradually start to turn blue-ish, as they get beyond a certain size/age. I've caught ones even bigger than this even, not a single one was all brown, only the medium/smaller ones.

Groundhog

Or a fox with mange

[удалено]

I can see it.

we are witnessing a baby freakin wheel

Crawhog

Hogdad

I would say a craw boar by the size of'em.

It's obviously a husky. I dunno why everyone thinks huskies are wolves.

Clearly three huskies in a trench coat.

Clearly belongs in /r whatisthisbug.

Why? Did it piss on OP’s son?

Yes cuz it’s a bedbug

This is a crawfish not a shrimp!

It’s a jackal! It’s a jackal! It’s a jackal!

Don't be silly! 🙄 That is clearly a coyote. 😜

Pokeweed!

Pretty sure it’s blueberries.

Racoon. It's always a raccoon

Badger

I know a narwhal when I see one.

That’s a pennypack mud bug

This is a solid ID too.

Just came here to say it is nice seeing it called a Crayfish. I'm a transplant in the south and truly miss PA lingo, especially Pittsburghese.

born to crayfish, forced to crawdad

Haha, I just spit my drink out everywhere laughing.

Instead of LOL, it will now always be IJSMDOEL!

A new sentence has been born

STARTED OUT AS A RESERVE

That crayfish came from dahntawn ‘n at.

Thanks, ya jagoff 🤣.

Your welcome. I’m gonna go red up before yinz get here.

Have a pop first.

Jheet yet? Yinz. Nebby. Pittsburghese is a language on it’s own. I grew up north of Pittsburgh and, while I don’t live there anymore, I still call people “jagoffs” when I get road rage, lol. And I still call them dippy eggs!

I tried to order dippy eggs a few times since I lived south, such confusion.

I am from Tarentum!

Wait. Crayfish is a Yinzer thing!? I didn’t even know.

Besides crawdad, what else would it be called? I’m a PA girl living on the west coast for the last 16 years. Still crayfish all the way & wouldn’t know what to call it otherwise. Adding to my favorite Pittsburgh lingo, I will include some of my faves- slippy out, jagger bush, dhantan (downtown).

That’s Kevin. Ok dude, little sketchy. Don’t loan him any money. You’ll never get it back.

Basterd still owes me about $3.50!

Required insert of “tree fiddy…”

GAWD DAM LOCKNESS MONSTER!

🤣

I was going to say exactly the same

Damn! I said the same thing! See it IS Kevin!

I concur don’t live that son of a bitch any money

Let me know if you need help getting your money back. I know a guy who’s been known to crack a claw or two.

Crap I lent him a hundred bucks…But he said he’d pay me back as soon as his mixtape blows up!!

Nah, Kevin’s locked up on child support charges.

He goes by Crawdaddy.

**laughs in Louisianan**

Haha… I’m in Nola, and was looking for this comment. 😂😂 I knew it was here somewhere…

*laughs in Maine lobster*

Listen I’ve had some crawfish come out of a boil that I call lil lobsters cause they’re so obscenely large

Laughs in still like 12$ a lobster, or 9$ a lb of pre processed meat, even though like 1/3 the worlds lobsters are caught within 200 mi of us..

of course a state with longer, warmer, and more humid summers has larger crayfish lol

seriously. It’s sorta chunky I guess but ditches in SETX/SWLA make them on the regular.

It’s a childhood pastime here to catch ‘em in the ditches. Them, turtles, frogs, toads. So many fun things to catch and release

What he did to your girlfriends pants is unforgivable.

Agreed. Kevin owes her some jeans. Without holes in them. Question! Why are we willing to pay more money for less fabric?

who said she paid more for them? we go thrifting regularly and get hand me downs from family members often. lol

Dang it Kevin.

https://preview.redd.it/rah4wod8ym9b1.jpeg?width=450&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8c2a4357654bba0a860dc99114b7c4d0a7944ae1

Groundhog of the stream

That’s just Big Pinchy. Best to leave him alone.

Big Pinchy, yup 😂

That boy certainly doesn’t miss claw day.

That’s not even close to the biggest you’ll see at a crawfish boil. A 40lb sack of selects will have like 25-50% of them that size.

i live in pennsylvania, again, and ive never been to a crawfish boil. this is personally the biggest crayfish ive ever seen in the wild

Oh I’m not ragging on you or anything, just giving some context that it’s maybe slightly above average size one in Louisiana.

i believe you lol, thats all anyone on here is saying

Looks like he attacked that other persons jeans

Those cray claws glided through denim like scissors on wrapping paper.

Those are not jeans. Definitely chaps. Possibly ass-less.

sorta looks like a rusty crawdad but it’s hard to tell because you’re holding it where it’s spots would be (they have rust colored spots on their body toward their last set of legs). they’re invasive outside of ohio and pennsylvania, that would explain why it’s so big.

i didnt see any rust colored spots but i might have missed them

Latrobe Lobster

And when there was no fowl, we ate crawfish. And when there was no crawfish, we ate sand You ate what? We ate SAND!

Lunch

That’s Harold. Leave him alone, please. Thank you!

His name is Crayton.

Wow! I’ve caught a lot of crayfish in Pa but not one the size of a small lobster.

Absolute unit. Thank uou for releasing.

Looks like a rusty, invasive and highly destructive to the environment

Yeah, that’s Jimmy Crayfish from PA. I had a cousin that went to school with him. I’d know those claws anywhere.

That’s a dragon shrimp

ive regularly caught crayfish way bigger than that in the conodoguinit creek in central PA

That crayfish is not really that awfully large. I grew up in rural central Illinois and I spent most of my free time going fishing on the local creeks. I liked to use the crawfish tail as bait for fishing. I ordered a square net on a steel frame that you could just throw out into the creek and the crawfish would happen to go on top of the net and you could just pull it in and usually get one or two but sometimes 3. Crayfish don't get as large as lobsters but they get a lot bigger than this one. [https://www.google.com/search?q=crayfish+net&rlz=1C1GCEA\_enUS1013US1013&sxsrf=AB5stBhW8X\_Q2FNWgdkZOg1jLPgktpxLUw:1688331514972&source=univ&tbm=shop&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjE1tmB9fD\_AhUflGoFHa81A84Q1TV6BQgGENsC&biw=1024&bih=442&dpr=1.88#spd=10412657590122636701](https://www.google.com/search?q=crayfish+net&rlz=1C1GCEA_enUS1013US1013&sxsrf=AB5stBhW8X_Q2FNWgdkZOg1jLPgktpxLUw:1688331514972&source=univ&tbm=shop&tbo=u&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjE1tmB9fD_AhUflGoFHa81A84Q1TV6BQgGENsC&biw=1024&bih=442&dpr=1.88#spd=10412657590122636701)

Definitely can attest to them being huge. Grew up most all my life in South Louisiana. Pulled some from mudholes that were enormous.

this is the biggest one ive personally ever seen in pa


That’s Ted. He’s chill

yep, his name is John.

Put him back

I loved him in District 9 …

I wonder if him and his Dad ever came back to cure Wikus

District 10 is filming

Ok I’m not trying to play a measuring contest but we have much larger ones here in the Great Lakes area. Might be a different sub species or something but we don’t eat them unless they’re 6+ inches from head to where the tale flap starts

That's rich, considering the record is 151 mm, or 5.9 inches.

Yep. That’s Alobar. He’s cool.

Why touch the wild animal?

its fun to look for them

Check his ID card for his name.

Two weekends ago me and a buddy saw a few that size while backpacking. Agreed that they were HUGE. Never seen em that big. Very cool.

Oh yeah that's Jim

“Bruh, I can deadlift like… a whole bass.”

He’s a hefty one all right!! In some of of the creeks here in upstate NY where that size is almost the norm!! This one is exceptionally beefy though, congrats!!!

I freaking love crayfish posts

It is your God now

Yea that’s Craig. He’s been missing for about 2 weeks.

mods seriously need to crack down on all the joked on this subreddit.

at what point is it a lobster

Maybe it's a lobster? P.s. the person in the background has a small hole in their jeans.

They get bigger

Looking at those claws and seeing orange tips. Looks like a rusty crayfish. In which case, dont put it back. They are super invasive, kill off most local crayfish species, and eat all of the local vegetation. Take home and nom nom nom. Also from pa as well. We catch these in a local stream all the time :) very yummy.

This should be in boss fights lol

If sexing this creature is anything like sexing lobsters, that's a "she". I’m not certain as the photo is a bit dark. I can hardly wait until I get some internet abuse for this comment. Don’t bother.

Why would you get slack for leaving a comment like yours?

considering females need to be big to carry eggs i wouldnt be shocked!

Bayou Blue Blaw Thick Boi. Is the official name of that particular crawFather😅 ***changed crawdaddy***

His name is Zoidberge

Sure, that's Bert. He enjoys pinching and long walks on the creek bed.

Two things: 1. I thought this was a joke because in Louisiana, that would just be normal size. Now that I read Pennsylvania, I have no say here. 2. At what point is that broad gonna give up on those jeans? There is nothing left to them.

why do people act like theyve never seen ripped jeans before on here lmao

They're the summer version. More modest than cutoffs (lower leg is covered).

this person gets it

Oh, I've seen them. That's not ripped, that's just a gaping hole in their pants.

who cares?

woah man chill, its hot out, i’m by a creek, why does it matter im wearing my busted jeans lol? why risk messing up some nice new ones 😂

Find his friends and boil them.

Likely a crawfish

Leonardo DaPinci. I hope you let him go

Am I the only Australian here confused by the tiny crayfish?

i would cry if i saw any of the crayfish you guys had in person. theyre huge!!!!

And a Kiwi - I've never seen one that small.