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Post by bswiv on Jul 27, 2024 4:50:39 GMT -5
And the problem now is.....HOW TO CATCH MORE!!!
Brutally good!!!
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Post by Crkr 23 on Jul 27, 2024 4:54:57 GMT -5
Is that also known as a slipper lobster?
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Post by Crkr 23 on Jul 27, 2024 5:04:54 GMT -5
I looked back at some old photos a diver friend sent me. Shrimp Mammy's and slipper lobster are different "creatures". He said the slipper lobster are better than spiny's to him. Attachments:
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Post by bswiv on Jul 27, 2024 5:17:17 GMT -5
I looked back at some old photos a diver friend sent me. Shrimp Mammy's and slipper lobster are different "creatures". He said the slipper lobster are better than spiny's to him. Same thing we found....slippers tasted better.......and the mammy........good enough to where I'm going to have to figure out how to catch them. My first thought is at low tide.........use small baits in their holes with the old plan of taking a bit of braided nylon rope and fraying it good so that the mammy gets tangled. Folks used to catch gar that way.
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Post by Crkr 23 on Jul 27, 2024 5:30:33 GMT -5
I've caught small Mammy's while shrimping in the intercoastal rivers, nothing near as large as the one you caught. Good luck, hope you figure out how to catch a mess of them.
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Post by Crkr 23 on Jul 27, 2024 5:39:28 GMT -5
You might try putting the baited frayed rope out on a long trotline, if you don't get Mammy's you might get blue crabs as a by catch, as TRT would say "Winning".
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Post by richm on Jul 27, 2024 7:28:56 GMT -5
They are pretty cool and will hurt you if you let em. Some say they snap them claws with the power of a .22.
If you look in the water around docks and such, see a hole in the bottom about 2-3 inches across, could well be one of them. We had one at our dock for a while til someone grabbed it.
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Post by garycoleco on Jul 27, 2024 9:38:10 GMT -5
Thumb splitter with kaleidoscope eyes
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Post by gandy on Jul 27, 2024 10:14:56 GMT -5
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Post by gandy on Jul 27, 2024 10:16:05 GMT -5
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Post by bullfrog on Jul 28, 2024 19:29:27 GMT -5
Mantis shrimp. The bane of salt water aquarists. Babies ride in on live rock and grow out in the tank in secret. Once they yet a few inches long they start eating your cleanup crew. You then have to walk on eggshells every time you’re in the tank lest it split your hand open. Getting it out is an ordeal.
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Post by Crkr 23 on Jul 28, 2024 19:50:15 GMT -5
I watched a video the other day of mantis shrimp and a pistol shrimp facing off. The mantis was much larger but the pistol shrimp was holding on pretty good. The pistol shrimp made a heck of a popping sound with his pincsers.
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Post by bullfrog on Jul 28, 2024 20:20:50 GMT -5
I watched a video the other day of mantis shrimp and a pistol shrimp facing off. The mantis was much larger but the pistol shrimp was holding on pretty good. The pistol shrimp made a heck of a popping sound with his pincsers. Pistol shrimp also ride in on live rock. They’re fun to discover. You’ll hear them popping at night. Its a scavenger hunt to find them to confirm whether its the popping of a pistol shrimp or the banging of a mantis shrimp. I kept a pistol shrimp for many years.
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Post by johnnybandit on Jul 28, 2024 21:33:03 GMT -5
And the problem now is.....HOW TO CATCH MORE!!! Brutally good!!!
Enjoy the one you ate.... That is a Mantis Shrimp....
They are not hard to find... Look for them around rocks oyster bars and lime rock ledges in Florida.... They probably go deeper.. but all that I have found have been in 3 to ten feet of water.... And they will come up on tides and go to lights at night... In passes and inlets.... they eat mostly crabs.... and sometimes shrimp.... And Occasionally Mollusks and fish....
they taste better than shrimp.. And Spiny lobsters.... They taste a lot like slippers...
But you do not want to play with them.... If they punch' your hand... they will break bones... Well break is not exactly the right word. it can be much worse... And they can punch the walls of the livewell on your boat... and if you do not notice it... you will be sinking
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Post by bullfrog on Jul 28, 2024 22:10:41 GMT -5
And the problem now is.....HOW TO CATCH MORE!!! Brutally good!!! Enjoy the one you ate.... That is a Mantis Shrimp....
They are not hard to find... Look for them around rocks oyster bars and lime rock ledges in Florida.... They probably go deeper.. but all that I have found have been in 3 to ten feet of water.... And they will come up on tides and go to lights at night... In passes and inlets.... they eat mostly crabs.... and sometimes shrimp.... And Occasionally Mollusks and fish....
they taste better than shrimp.. And Spiny lobsters.... They taste a lot like slippers...
But you do not want to play with them.... If they punch' your hand... they will break bones... Well break is not exactly the right word. it can be much worse... And they can punch the walls of the livewell on your boat... and if you do not notice it... you will be sinking
They can crack aquariums too. There's two overall types. One kind has long stabbers like a praying mantis. The other has round bashers. The stabbers usually eat fish. The bashers eat mollusks. The bashers are usually the kind that get into aquariums. The bashers can split a hand open. Their clubs have hooks on them that can hook in and snatch backwards when then hit. I didn't know we had any of the big kinds in Florida waters. In the aquarium trade, the big species come from the South Pacific. Some people purposely keep the big ones as pets. The small ones are the pests that hide in tanks and clean out the beneficial mollusks.
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