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Perfect; we're in bidness. We use one here for the same thing. Just need to make sure the fry oil is completely washed out of it. If you have one of those inserts (smaller pot that nestles inside the main one, with a handle and drainage holes), so much the better, but a metal colander will work too. I steam mine, as they're a little less of a hassle to rip apart when not filled so much with water, which is what happens when you straight boil. If they have any monsters, I'll bring one down to play with. Like this one. Took these shots on my phone about an hour ago (wife is heading to see some old Tokyo friends in VA, and took a few bugs with her). Hard to see scale due to water, but that big bug on the left is a 17 pounder. The crusher alone must go 5 pounds, and is larger than a kid's baseball glove. The 'little' ones in the tank seen are 7 and 9 pounders.

Looking forward to it, bud, and thanks.

seeing those reminds of onetime we ran offshore. we stop at a local store to buy some stuff to eat drink, while we were fishing, and they had live crawdads. we bought some and used them for bait. caught some snapper on them.

Local sharpies will use crayfish they've caught (I've been known to use the time-tested string and hotdog method myself) to fish for striped bass. Now why would anyone do that, pray tell? Because a crayfish, despite being a freshwater critter, is virtually indistinguishable from a baby lobster. Stripers love eating lobsters. One slob I caught years ago had two squid, six crabs, a herring and THREE lobsters in his stomach (I check the stomach contents of bass I keep for the grill). Two of them were legal sized bugs. Yep, that fish was a real glutton.
I have pics of it somewhere...

.......and then Honda ate the fish

Circle of life, man, circle of life...