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Over the years I have written newsletters and articles about this and that. No other topic occurs more often than describing my trips up the mountains to lakes and streams where I went crayfish catching. My archive is full of these tales, and now and then I go back to them to refresh my memory of successful - and some not so successful - fishing expeditions. For those who are interested in reading about my crayfish adventures, here is a collection of some articles and newsletters I have written over the years. Some have been published here and there; others are here offered to the public for the first time.

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#1. When Fish Don't Bite
A trip to Wheatfields Lake on the Navajo Reservation with wife and kids. Catching crayfish with an impromptu crayfish trap.

#2. Crayfish - The Swedish National Dish
Preparing for a VASA camp-out in the mountains of the Apache Reservation of Arizona

#3. Catching crayfish for hungry Swedes
Up in the Arizona mountains, at 8,000 foot elevation, Hawley Lake is full of crayfish for members of the Swedish VASA lodge

#4. Back to Hawley Lake - 2002
Another of my annual treks up to the crayfish lake on the Apache Reservation. Trapper Arne with his two-punch method of catching large amounts of crayfish

#5. Catching Your Own Crayfish
As an immigrant I was delighted to find that most lakes in the U.S. were teeming with crayfish.

#6. Let's Eat Crayfish - Swedish Style
A rather detailed description of how the Swedes eat their crayfish

#7. Problems at Willow Springs Lake
Facing camp at Willow Springs Lake with no night clothes, no key for a locked boat. An experiment with a new kind of bait.

#8. Mystery at Black Canyon Lake
Experiencing both a great crayfish catch in a new lake and also finding five traps missing.

#9. Crayfishing in the Arizona Rim Country
Reminiscing about the great crayfish lakes of Arizona, especially those on the Mogollon Rim.

#10. Black Canyon Revisited
Trap placing wrong, baiting too little but catching many females.

#11. Kraftskivan - The Crayfish Party.
John Allinger reminisces about a Swedish childhood crayfish party.

#12. Cooking Crayfish
Comparing Cajun and Swedish crayfish cooking and how to purge the crayfish.

#13. Black Canyon Lake Delivers
A detailed description of a record breaking catch.

#14. Crayfish - A Royal Treat
How the royal families in Scandinavia helped introduce the crayfish to the commoners.

#15. The Annual Trek to Hawley Lake
Unfortunately probably the last trek to this unforgettably productive crayfish lake.

#16. Autumn Catch at Black Canyon Lake
The Windy Lake still delivers.

#17. The Crayfish Races at San Miguel
Revenge of the Canine.

#18. Wrestling the Winds on Woods Canyon Lake
Crayfish season has started.

#19. A Black Day at Black Canyon Lake
Another Crayfish Mystery.

#20. Kinnikinick
Debunking a Myth.

#21. Another Hawley Lake Tale
Hawley Lake Produces again

#22. One more Hawley Lake Tale
Does cat food work as crayfish bait? You bet!

NEWSLETTERS FROM THEN TO NOW.

April -07 CHASING THE TRAPPY CRAYFISH TRAP

December -07 EATING CRAYFISH FOR CHRISTMAS

January -08 CRAYFISH AROUND THE WORLD

February -08 HOW OLD ARE CRAYFISH?

March -08 LOUISIANA CRAWFISH OR WHAT CAJUNS AND SWEDES HAVE IN COMMON

April -08 EATING CRAYFISH YEAR ROUND

May -08 Crayfish Farming - Cultured Crayfish

June -08 Crayfish and How People Eat Them

July -08 Trapper Arne - Five Years Old

August -08 Crayfish and How People Eat Them

September -08 Catching Hawley Lake Crayfish

October -08 A Trappy Tip - Testimonials

November -08 Crayfish and Colors

December -08 Introducing the Cray Shack

January -09 Crayfish by Thomas Huxley

February -09 My First Crayfish Catch

March -09 Crayfish Campout With the VASA

April -09 CRAYFISH MOULTING

May -09 Crayfish and Heavy Metals

June -09 The Rusty Crayfish

JULY -09 Freezing Crayfish

August -09 CRAYFISH VIDEOS

September -09 Cat food as Crayfish Bait

October -09 More About Catfood as Bait

November -09 Crayfish and the Bible

December -09 Crayfish Good or Bad?

January -10 Celebrating six years of trap sales

February -10 Who Stole My Traps?

March -10 Crayfish Traps - Good, Better, Best

April -10 Crayfish and Wikipedia

May -10 Crayfish Invasive in China and USA

June -10 What Good are Crayfish?

JULY -10 Time to Catch Crayfish

August -10 We Got Letters!

September -10 Catching My Winter Supply

October -10 Searching for the Best Crayfish Lake

November -10 Crayfish on a Festive Table

December -10 Crayfish and pH Values

January -11 Crayfish and Cholesterol

February -11 I've Got eMails

March -11 Replacement Funnels for Trappy and XL

April -11 The End of an ERA?

May -11 Escape Stoppers - Needed Or Not?

June -11 Signal Crayfish in Europe - Friend Or Foe?

JULY -11 Fluctuating Crayfish Populations

August -11 CRAYFISH FOR LONGEVITY?

September -11 August the Crayfish Month

October -11 More Talk About Bait

November -11 My eBook About Crayfish Catching

December -11 Crayfish Recipes - FDR and Pearl Harbor

January -12 Do Crayfish Hibernate?

February -12 When Does the Crayfish Season Start?

March -12 Crayfish Species

April -12 The Red Claw Crayfish

May -12 More About Crayfish Bait

June -12 Dirty Crayfish

JULY -12 The Annual Crayfish Trek

August -12 On Crayfish Hot Spots

September -12 Catching Crayfish with Trot Lines

October -12 Fish Oil as Crayfish Bait

November -12 Trapper Arne and Son

December -12 Eating a Crayfish

January - 13 Crayfish "Down Under"

March - 13 The Taste of Crayfish

August - 13 The African Crayfish Puzzle

September - 13 The Crayfish Festival

October - 13 Crayfish Catch Galore

November - 13 Escape Stoppers - Yes or No?

December - 13 Crayfish Trap Types

January - 14 My First Crayfish Catch

February - 14 Crayfish - The Brain Food
Red Crayfish
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