What the heck…?

[Roper]

I live near Silver Lake in SE Everett and walk our dog there daily. This morning I peeked over the railing and spotted this beast. Guessing it’s nearly 9-10 inches long. Not your average crawfish for sure. Anyone know what it might be?

 

[albula]

Good eating?

 

[Divad]

The horns indicate it is one of the non native ones.

 

[Bruce Baker]

The native crayfish, the signal crayfish has smooth claws. It is probably one of the following three non-native species: northern, red swamp or rusty crayfish. Hard to tell from the pic, which one, but from what I can see of the claws, I will guess rusty crayfish. Here is a snippet from the shellfish page in the sport fish regs pamphlet.

 

[kmudgn]

Juvenile Maine Lobster. Hitched a ride on those Atlantic Salmon people are always taking about

 

[Ceviche]

Time to look up the crawdad regs? Used to notice the rare and occasional trap on one or two lakes I’ve fished.

 

[Fourbtgait]

Only problem is eating from waters with food advisory. I love boiled crawfish, seen so many in Spokane River. But…

 

[krusty]

Only problem is eating from waters with food advisory. I love boiled crawfish, seen so many in Spokane River. But…

You'd have to be crazy to eat anything from the Spokane River. Loads of heavy metals from the Silver Valley Superfund site, PCB's, and PFAS...all bioaccumulative toxics. Then throw in the fact that the City of Spokane cheaped out on their new Tertiary Membrane treatment plant, intentionally designing it with insufficient capacity during high flow rainfall events...requiring bypasses of poorly treated wastewater. I'll never understand how Ecology dropped the ball on approving that one.....

 

[Fourbtgait]

You'd have to be crazy to eat anything from the Spokane River. Loads of heavy metals from the Silver Valley Superfund site, PCB's, and PFAS...all bioaccumulative toxics. Then throw in the fact that the City of Spokane cheaped out on their new Tertiary Membrane treatment plant, intentionally designing it with insufficient capacity during high flow rainfall events...requiring bypasses of poorly treated wastewater. I'll never understand how Ecology dropped the ball on approving that one.....

Exactly.
Though years ago I saw people ignoring the signs

 

[Dloy]

Better tie one up. Just imagine the fich gonna eat it. Musky rod?

 

[the_chemist]

I've got a few in the creek behind my house that silver lake feeds. Glad seeing them as it generally points to a relatively
Healthy water system.

 

[joefromchicago]

Had an experience with one as a kid in a farm creek. My brother and I saw this big old girl sitting in a pool and herded it into one of those quart size peanut butter jars that it only fit into with the tail curled up with a clutch of eggs. For such a small creek we had never seen it before or after but there was a culvert that went under a farm road where it must have hid out. Had to have been there for years to get that big.