Hey Wampus!
Ay-yeee! Boy, do I miss them crawfish! I lived in Louisiana between 1994-2001. I was teaching in Mermentau and living in Lake Arthur. You got a few good hunting spots in Sou-west Louisiana, boy! Try to make a run at Holly Beach sometime and see what you come up with! Jean Laffite is said to have some stashes in the whereabouts. If you ever get into scuba-diving, rig yourself up with a submersible detector, get on Google Earth and look for dark spots about 20 miles out from the coast, then go check them out. There are still some Spanish Galleons out there in the Gulf of Mexico, and that's one way to find them (the ballast piles turn up as small dark blotches in Google Earth). While I was living there, we had a little company going called "Gulf Coast Discoveries" in which we did search and recovery dives, mostly for fishermen who would lose equipment in the water, but our ulterior motive was treasure hunting. We didn't have Google Earth back then, but we did have an air force pilot who would keep an eye peeled for these blotches, then log the coordinates and we'd later go and check them out by boat and dive.