After the Snowfall in the Swamp, what's the outlook for this crawfish season?

Surely one of our OB geniuses can create a photo of a mud bug with a tiny microphone giving his outlook……

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Todd Fontenot, the crawfish extension agent with the LSU AgCenter, said the historic snowstorm and freezing weather will only have a short-term impact on mudbugs this year.

"You know, it's a short-term delay in the old activities, but with some good warming weather come out of this, we find it's gonna get back to where it was pretty quickly again," he said.

Fontenot explained that crawfish, being cold-blooded crustaceans, are sitting around, conserving energy to survive.

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https://www.nola.com/news/weather/crawfish-louisiana-season-2025/article_06b3a884-d822-11ef-afbe-5b7915c07fc7.html

It's basically a 2 week shutdown due to the weather. Even before that, most places were not open, or at most had 5-10 sacks a day and sold out daily of course. In that article, they compare it to last year, which was probably a historically slow start to the year, almost a month behind normal opening dates. So even with this setback, it's still comparatively much better than last.