Crawdads, crawfish, or crayfish?

Last night we took some of our friends fishing for crawdads. This is not your typical fishing expedition with fishing poles and lures. We did take our poles but did not use them the same way as regular fishing. We walked off the boat ramp dock at Strawberry Reservoir, put a chunk of elk meet tied to a rope and threw it in the water. We wait for five minutes and then slowly pull the rope up and net the little crustaceans. We also put a piece of meet on a large hook and cast our lines in the water and waited for one to latch on and then we would pull them up. We caught 10 to 20 lbs of crawdads! Since I do not eat "sea food" we gave them to our Thai friend and her husband who went with us.  

I have to tell you a short story. When I was a kid we lived in Houston and thought catching and eating crawdads was such a blast. One night our neighbors took us (my friends and I) to the driving range close to our house to eat crawdads. This place would sell them by the bucket full. We would order two or three 5-gallon buckets of these things and chow down. Back in the day, we thought it was fun to pop the eyes out of the head and suck the juice out. Now I will not even touch the disgusting little creatures.