Hey Fish,

I'm not sure that you will find crawdads in the Bay Area, but if you don't mind an hours drive Delta Bait and Tackle(Fishermans Warehouse) in Manteca carries them. They also have a much better selection of artificials than anything in the Bay Area. (Exept maybe Walton's) If you decide to venture that way, you might want to call first. I've been there before and they were out. As far as hooking them, I don't really know. I only fished with them a couple of times and never really did any good. So I must have been doing it wrong.;) But I was hooking them through the nose. I had alot of them get crushed by fish, but only hooked up on a couple. I miss fewer fish than that on jigs. I'll tell you what though, after what Nico and Chris did at Coyote, I'm gonna buy a bucket full and drown me some dads this weekend!!!j/k

Tight Lines,

Clay