Giant Crawfish of Tennessee and Kentucky
Crawfish the size of a small lobster live in a few Middle Tennessee and Kentucky streams, and nowhere else.To protect the species, officials won't give away exact locations found, but they include parts of the Middle and West Fork Drakes Creek in Sumner County and Line Creek in Clay County.
Tennessee has at least 78 species of crawfish, which may be more than any other state, according to the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.
At up to 9 inches from claw to tail, Barbicambarus cornutus, the crawfish state biologists have documented, is the largest of the crawfish here. They don't know how many there might be, nor how big the largest are here.
(I always viewed crawfish as small lobsters. Lobsters being so expensive, whenever I go to a Chinese buffet, I would get some crawfish tails. They may not be as tasty as Lobster tails, but it's all-you-can-eat and you can't beat that! I wonder if they can farm these giant crawfish and sell them cheap.)
posted by Beowulf at
1:23 PM
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New Years day 1995. I had gone down to the tail waters of the Wolf Creek Dam at Lake Cumberland to do some bank fishing it was very cold and they had stopped generating and the water level had dropped down so that I could walk up and down the bank in the gavel.There was a large log laying beside the water level and I noticed movement underneth when I got to it and stupped down to investigate I could not belive my eyes. There were two very large Crawfish as large as lobsters one was missing a claw but they where either fighting or mating.I left and went and got a friend and a camera only to find them gone when we got back.But theses were more like 12 to 15 inches long there tails where like 3 inches wide at the widest point.Never have I seen anything like them in freash water.
October 24, 2008 at 11:10 AM
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