I used to catch large crayfish and cook them like a lobster and then dipped them in drawn butter. Not much meat but they are tasty. I used to catch them in a freestone stream near the house. I used a piece of screen bent round and open at the top. I'd lift rocks and when I saw a crawfish I would put the screen in back of its tail and poke in front of it with a stick. They would swim backwards into the screen.
I've eaten Cajun style crawfish in the south, but they were done with too many spices. All you tasted was the spices. Same thing with Maryland crab. We New England boys are not strangers to the delights of eating crayfish. But we don't spice them up and we don't make much of a fuss out of eating them.
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