Lol, there were always too many ways to snag a line for us to use a $4 lure. Mostly just live bait and cheap rooster tails.
They were all over the place where I grew up. You ever hear the song? They make these holes in the ground and pile up mud around it.
I've mostly seen them in running water, was a bit surprised y'all pulled one out of a lake. We just flipped rocks to find'em, tried digging out those holes but that never worked out.
Yep! Once on a boy scout canoeing trip our 'adult supervision' wandered off and while they were gone I showed the younger kids how to catch crawdads and we put'em all in their canoes. By the time they wandered back the bottoms of the canoes were covered in crawdad blood. We were entertained, they were not.