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flounder daddy · Guest

I gigged one of these big shrimp about 3 weeks ago at packary bridge and thought it was just sort of a freak deal. (It was tasty!) Not the case apparently! We were fishing humble tonight in my buddys john boat tied off to the bridge. I spotted this sucker being chassed across the water slowly by some trout. Kept my light on it, sure enough, it started to head towards to the boat. We had no net, so my buddy said he would get it with his bare hands. It went under the boat, poped up and crawled up the concrete pylon just below the water and my buddy grabbed it with his bare hands. The wiskers were over a foot long! In the freezer in a block of ice now! Very Happy

Wouldnt mind catching a few dozen of these boys!

rabbit · Posted: Sun Dec 18, 2011 4:25 am Post subject:

a few dozen that size would be nice. Very Happy

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Brine · Horse Mullet Joined: 07 Nov 2009 Posts: 135

I just saw this on CNN - HLN
You may be seeing some even bigger shrimp soon.

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2011/12/16/giant-cannibal-shrimp-worry-gulf-coast-watchers/?iref=allsearch

The story above implies their presence is due to past storms moving displaced populations into the Gulf -- I wonder?
As I recall -- this is the same species that was being grown at the Hung shrimp farm operation in Arroyo City, where there were problems with containing the shrimp in the ponds ---.

"During November`s harvest, tons of the farms` exotic shrimp somehow escaped into local waters."

re: http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1992-04-01/news/9201300060_1_severe-regulations-arroyo-city-exotic-shrimp

flounder daddy · Guest

Very interesting article. I dont think I will be bare-handing a foot long tiger shrimp, thats for sure! My question would be are they safe to eat? The one I pictured looks native in color, just in the super large catagory.

topdog15 · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 3:22 pm Post subject:

swellcat · Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 5:19 pm Post subject: Jumbo

That trophy is worthy of being called a "prawn".

anzuelo · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 10:52 am Post subject:

So does catching a shrimp that size make you a

PRAWN STAR

landlocked beachbum · Posted: Fri Dec 23, 2011 11:11 am Post subject:

WE used to do a lot of seining on either side of the JFK causeway from 1965-1967, and once in a bluw moon we would net a big old white shrimp like that....................... very cool stuff indeed!!!! Cool

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