The crawfish season is winding down, but it is not too late to have one last boil before the bugs go away.
"You're looking, a couple, of two, three weeks, maybe a few smatterings of people out their longer than that," said David Savoy of the Louisiana Crawfish Farmers Association. "Still got some of the large crawfish but that dwindles down almost daily."
Mark Shirley with the LSU Ag Center says a lot of commercial crawfish ponds are putting the traps away and converting to rice growing, but they haven't all shut down.
"If you're looking for crawfish you can probably find them for another few weeks," said Shirley. He also said wild crawfish are still being trapped and brought to market.
"The Atchafalaya Basin is catching some wild crawfish," he said. "You might can find some that come from the basin."
But by the end of the month, that will likely be it. But if you just have to have crustaceans in your diet, he says the inshore shrimp harvest has been bountiful:
"If you've been eating crawfish for the last three or four months, now is the time to transition into shrimp."
And you'll have to wait for winter for the crawfish to come back.