Crayfishing Timeline...

OK GuysFor the last four days Anna Nilsson and I have been preparing for the crayfish season here in sweden. So after two days of fishing for Mert (the bait fish) we were ready for the hunt. Now you cut up fish parts to attach to the hooks inside the trap. Then once all the traps are closed and the flotation devices secured, they are taken out in the boat to be dropped in along the lake. We put ours along the plant line. Then we waited. Anna Gradeen came up from her hometown in Varnamo and Anna Nilsson's best friend Lisa came up and the four of us barbequed and chatted the night away. At about 11:30 we went out in the pitch black to the boat to row out. We slowly made our way from one trap to another collecting our crayfish. Now Anna was expecting maybe 5 total because in present years the crayfish population has dwindled alot, but we got 22 in the night!!! We then threw the traps back out to collect more in the morning. We took our catch back in, excited because the neighbors with whom we had a competition goign had only collected 18 (the prize: 3 beers). After some hilarious pictures and posing with our crayfish we went to bed around 2:30. At 5:30 Anna came in to awake us and so began our second outting for crayfish. This time we only got four though :( When all was said and done though we had 26 crayfish and 18 were of the size large enoguh for us to keep! Not bad at all.