Every fisherman in the world knows that soft shell crawdads are a great bait for about anything that swims,,,but timing the molting process for your local creeks is a pain---so make your own softshells ::

take Jar full of crawdads and water and put it in the refridgerator for 24hrs,,,then take em back out for 24 hrs ---then back into the fridge for another 24hrs and abbracadabra you got softshell crawdads

Couldn't decide whether to eat em or fish em :ROFL

Actually my paylake fishing brother learned it from someone

im gonna have to start keeping those hard shell craws then  but will they still live

When you get those soft bodies, he is something we did as a kid.  We would place them in a stro worm bucket.  Making one layer of crawls and placing two layers of damp/wet newspaper.  Continue until the bucket was full and place them in the frid.  They seemed to last for about a month.