shrimp etouffee

Shrimp etouffee is good, but mud bug is much better..

Crawdads are rare out here in the stores, but I do like them better than shrimp.  I used to catch them myself, but now you have to have a fishing license, construct your traps to state standards, as well as have minimum size limits etc.  Unless you went out frequently it's not worth it to me anymore.  Good old Washington department of absolutely not!  If I only used the tails like I used to, I bet the rest of the crawdads would make a potent stock!