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The Trash Heap
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 Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 8:38 am Post subject: Re: don't grill, and start with buying one... |
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| gonefishing wrote: | | A couple of years back I saw some sort of giant freshwater shrimp in the grocery store and bought a few to try. We normally like to grill our shrimp, so I prepared these the same way. It was the most unexpected and horrid thing I have ever tasted (outside of Sbisa). I spat it out and threw the rest away. It could be it was rotten or something, but it really didn't have the expected shrimp-like taste. |
That's GOT to be an exaggeration.  Nothing else known to man has ever tasted as bad as what came out of Sbisa. I've witnessed Aggies eat jack crevalle, but steer clear of Sbisa.
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kadiyaker
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| Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 11:13 am Post subject: |
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Ahhh.... Sbisa. It's not that bad... anymore. TAMU got a new fancy 'chef' that has changed things up a bit. I would actually eat there more often if it weren't for the almost 9 bucks it cost to eat lunch.
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landlocked beachbum
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| Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 3:54 pm Post subject: |
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What the heck is Sbisa guys? I did a google search and came up with zip.
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kadiyaker
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Old Aggie mess hall... very old (since remodeled).
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genghis_prawn
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| Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 5:19 pm Post subject: Re: i.d...huge freshwater shrimp? |
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| slimfishin wrote: | | i got this guy last weekend at lake corpus christi. its not the first one we've caught but definatly the biggest. just seeing if it really is a shrimp or if theres another name for it. the knife in the pic is 9in. |
The Trash Heap's got it -- Macrobrachium carcinus. Texas is at the northern edge of this species' distribution -- it occurs from the Gulf Coast and the Atlantic edge of Florida through Central America and the Antilles, and in South America as far down as southeastern Brazil.
Sorry to dig up an old thread, but I was hoping that someone here might be able to help me out.
I'm an undergrad at Harvard who'll be in Texas (based in Mathis) from the 19th to the 23rd. I've been conducting research on genetic relationships in freshwater prawns (Macrobrachium) and plan to collect some prawns for genetic analysis at Corpus Christi.
So why Lake Corpus Christi?
That native prawns are occurring upstream of Wesley Seale Dam is pretty astounding, since their larvae require brackish water for development. In other words, large dams are expected to prevent two-way migration and preclude upstream populations. My TPWD contact in Corpus Christi, however, tells me that anglers are continuing to catch prawns of all sizes in the lake itself -- something strange is going on.
Another shot of M. carcinus (the juveniles are translucent and thin-clawed)
I arrived in Mathis earlier today and ran a net through submerged plants at several spots along the lake's edge, looking for juveniles, but didn't have any luck.
The presence of prawns in the lake has important scientific and management implications, so I'd appreciate any reports or directions to sites where you've found them. If you've ever run into prawns or river shrimp anywhere else in Texas, it'd be great to hear from you too. |
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BALZTOWAL
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| Posted: Wed May 19, 2010 5:30 pm Post subject: |
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Big John
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The water (or grass in the water) in front of my grandmothers lake house at Lake Mathis (ok - lake Corpus Christi) is full of them (the small translucent shrimp). We used to catch them as kids and put them in the fish tank at home. Unfortunately the perch in the tank ate them all.
Once when the water was way, way down in the 80's, I found the exoskeleton of one that we measured as 28" from head to tail. No one had any idea what the heck it was. We thought someone had chucked a lobster into the lake or something.
As for the translucent shrimp, my grandfather always called them glass shrimp and the biggest one I have ever seen was maybe 2" at most. |
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Rebecca of Sunnybrookfarm
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| Big John wrote: | | glass shrimp |
grass shrimp. Palaemonetes.
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John's addiction
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A friend told me about being caught harvesting a similar species in the waters near Aquarina Springs. They would use underwaterlights to spot them at night and snorkel down to grab them. He claimed they would glow a white color when spotlighted. He also claimed they were real tasty.
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Big John
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| Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 6:46 pm Post subject: |
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| porkfetus wrote: | | Big John wrote: | | glass shrimp |
grass shrimp. Palaemonetes. |
Palaemonetes
Common ditch shrimp Palaemonetes varians
Scientific classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Subphylum: Crustacea
Class: Malacostraca
Order: Decapoda
Infraorder: Caridea
Family: Palaemonidae
Genus: Palaemonetes
Heller, 1869
Species
See text.
A ghost shrimp in a freshwater aquarium. The shrimp appears transparent, just as it would in the wild.The genus Palaemonetes includes a geographically diverse group of fresh and brackish-water shrimp. Species in the genus have a variety of common names such as ghost shrimp, grass shrimp, glass shrimp, and popcorn shrimp
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palaemonetes
Seems we are both right this time. Or rather, my grandfather was right. I just know what I heard. |
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SaltyCuda
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| Posted: Thu May 20, 2010 7:06 pm Post subject: |
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I never liked swimmin in that lake, too many weird critters  |
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Big John
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| SaltyCuda wrote: | | I never liked swimmin in that lake, too many weird critters |
LOL!
It was the 12 foot alligator gar that lived around the corner in the cove behind the cliff that always worried me.
You would see ducks swimming around then the a small rolling water right behind them, then, swoosh, the duck would disappear!
I haven't seen any gar of significant size since the 80's drought. |
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SaltyCuda
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| Posted: Fri May 21, 2010 4:15 pm Post subject: |
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| Big John wrote: | | SaltyCuda wrote: | | I never liked swimmin in that lake, too many weird critters |
LOL!
It was the 12 foot alligator gar that lived around the corner in the cove behind the cliff that always worried me.
You would see ducks swimming around then the a small rolling water right behind them, then, swoosh, the duck would disappear!
I haven't seen any gar of significant size since the 80's drought. |
Does it really require that the Alligator Gar be 12 foot? I'm thinking that 2 to 4 foot is just about as concerning |
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Big John
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The little ones might be able to put a little hurt on your, its the really big fellows that I am worried about though.
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dospescadores
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| Posted: Sun May 23, 2010 7:57 pm Post subject: |
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| I caught a couple last year at Lake CC while Crappie fishing with minnows. Both were caught in about 10 foot of water near rocks. I ate the 2nd one...grilled it and didn't taste all that great. |
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