[Southron Patriot]

I live in Decatur, Alabama and we have been eating them for years. My Grandfather told me that a old Cherokee Indian with whom he hung around with as a boy learning how to make a Bow and Arrows etc. told him that the giant crayfish were great to eat and that his people had been trapping them for a long, long time.

I have personally seen them get nearly 12”. They are very fast and you have to have a trap/net to catch them. There very good boiled.

This may be a secret to the Scientist but not to those who grew up around the Tenn. River here in Alabama!

[Fletcher J]

Decatur is a nice town. My mother’s family is from Decatur, so I’ve been there often to visit.

I sure like to get some Whitt’s BBQ when I’m there, and Bob Gibsons! I smoke some good BBQ myself, so these days I think mines the best. But, it’s worth eating the second best, when you don’t have to be the one to make it... ;) I’m always in Decatur for our family reunion on Memorial day weekend, and we generally also go to the hot air balloon festival.

Fletcher J

[decimon]

I live in Decatur, Alabama and we have been eating them for years.

That's what I figured. Barbicambarus was formerly known as, 'ats a big 'un.'