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Jetty Rat · Posted: Sun Jan 12, 2020 10:32 pm Post subject: Catching Mantis shrimp/ Sea Lice

Ok I have a question regarding mantis shrimp. Last year when i was drum fishing i talked to a guy who said that he catches his own mantis shrimp to use for bait. He said that he uses a crab claw as bait and basically nets them up like you would a crab. I have never heard of anything like this but it would definitely save me some money. Has anyone heard anything like this, and if you have, where would be some general water types, depths or places where i could possibly get some. The only ways i have seen on youtube are in other places like Australia where they have salt flats that are two inches deep for miles. Thanks for any info.

Prof. Salt · Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 7:52 am Post subject:

Following.

Central Scrutinizer · Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 8:37 am Post subject:

Whenever the Bait Bucket has their sign up that they have mantis shrimp (a.k.a., thumb-splitters), I have the urge to get me a dozen or so and cook them up! That big of a 'tail' has got to have some tasty meat..... One Day.

But they do have a really cool larval form, and surprisingly really common in the plankton.

BayFly · Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 9:54 am Post subject:

Every video I've seen them in was filmed around a reef, so locally I would think they would be harboring in the jetties, or other rock piles? Maybe even around oyster beds? They basically catch their food via ambush, so they are always in hole and hiding from their prey.

Jetty Rat · Posted: Mon Jan 13, 2020 10:20 pm Post subject:

apparently they taste pretty good according to youtube videos, I want them for bait but will try anything if others say it is good Very Happy

Tyler · Site Admin Joined: 06 Mar 2006 Posts: 12865

I'm with Central Scrutinizer, congrats by the way on your beloved LSU Tigers. Mantis shrimp tails look like food to me. Scary like the slipper lobster down under but I'm game for trying a few. Very Happy

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ratherbefishing · Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2020 12:22 am Post subject:

About 5 years ago, I caught a big Mantis Shrimp in the channel fishing from the jetty at Isla Blanca Park on South Padre Island. I had cut bait on the line and somehow it got hooked.

No expert here, just a lucky catch...
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Salt On the Brain · Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2020 5:46 am Post subject:

Tyler,
We have slipper lobster here on our rigs and reefs.
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bd0202 · Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2020 6:02 am Post subject:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6MNNr9MuAQ
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Donnie · Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2020 6:33 am Post subject:

In my fishing life, i have seined, push netted , or throw netted the surf, intercoastal - all over up and down - out near the ICW channel, back in the flats, the back bays, near and around the mouth of the nueces, under and around the piers, bhp, and private piers and have caught every kind of fingerling, shrimp, crabs, including what i think was tiny baby sailfish, etc. etc , but never one of those.

We never seined near the jetties though - if those things are local, my guess is thats where they are.
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bulldog1935 · Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2020 6:52 am Post subject:

There's always push nets
http://www.corpusfishing.com/messageboard/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=17965&postdays=0&postorder=asc&start=24

Central Scrutinizer · Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2020 9:11 am Post subject:

grasscutter · Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2020 1:06 pm Post subject:

Them things look like something out of a horror movie. Something that will latch on and bite the crap out of you. When I get them in the live well, they just die a natural death. Cuz ain't trying to put that crawly thing on the hook.

bd0202 · Posted: Tue Jan 14, 2020 11:52 pm Post subject:

I'm not so afraid of how they look, it just looks like a lot of work for a little meat, like crab legs. Lobster is usually thicker so its easier and more tolerable. But I'm totally willing to try it; there's definitely meat to be had in them tails!
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bulldog1935 · Posted: Wed Jan 15, 2020 4:59 am Post subject:

yep, every time I eat a crab cake, think of those little Chesapeake Bay grannies shucking little bits of crab for my enjoyment.