Crawdad!

This is not the crawdad I saw, I pulled this picture off the internet somewhere.  But the one I saw was every bit of 8" long!  It was a big dude!  They are digging some kind of trench out behind my office building and of course I had to go be nosy and look in the hole.  And there was Mr. Crawdad!  Huge sucker!  I took a picture, but he was covered in mud and it was hard to tell what he was in the pic.

I remember going out to a farmer's pond with my Great Grandpa and seining for crawdads to use for bait before we went fishing.  That's been a long time ago...