was 5-6 my brother and I were trying to catch crawdads with bacon and string. He went to school the next week, I went back to fishing by myself, we had a creek just behind the house, caught a 4 inch crawdad, pulled that string up and thought, well, what do I do now. Tossed him back in.
I set a trap in the creek through the timber property and caged a couple of nice ones. Figured that hole was empty and though they were nice ones realized that they were not enough
for a meal and let them go. There’s another creek over the ridge that might yield more. Will see. String is more sporting.