Hello, I'm the OUTDOOR PROFESSOR from DiscoveringTheOutdoors.com/ Here's your outdoor tip on crawfish and their chimneys. Crawfish can be a delicious part of the Southern cuisine. Particularly crawfish tails are great for catching a variety of fish. But what about those mud chimneys that you often see in a yard or flat area with high water table—water close to the surface? Common crawfish burrow during the late summer, spend most of their time in the fall and winter underground in tunnels filled with water, and then move to open water in swamps, ponds and lakes. There are a large number of crawfish varieties. Most are about 3-4 inches long. Crawfish are detritivores because they break down organic materials like leaves and consume lots of microbes for protein. It has been said the crawfish eat everything and everything eats crawfish. Crawfish are inactive during the day and come out at night to feed. Crawfish predators include birds, raccoons, otters, minks, many other
