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slimfishin · Pony Mullet Joined: 10 Sep 2007 Posts: 64 Location: corpus

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.

lars · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 3:33 pm Post subject:

http://freshwaterprawn.org/

landlocked beachbum · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:47 pm Post subject:

I thought it looked like the "Tiger Shrimp" that you can buy in the store, without the claws. I think that it's the same thing as the freshwater prawn but given a fancy name for marketing BS, kinda like calling a garbage man a "sanitation engineer" Laughing

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The Trash Heap · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 4:47 pm Post subject: Macrobrachium carcinus

Bigclaw River Shrimp, Painted River Prawn

Interesting critters, the largest of 5 species in Texas. They're catadromous, descending rivers to their estuaries to lay their eggs.
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landlocked beachbum · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:18 pm Post subject:

How common are they TH? Looks like good eats to me! Very Happy

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The Trash Heap · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:41 pm Post subject:

Not real common, but good eating. C.H. and his father used to catch them occasionally on trotlines set in the lower Nueces. They caught a couple one day so big that the smaller of the two barely fit, folded up, in a gallon jar. The larger was eaten, of course.

There have been attempts to raise this species in captivity for obvious reasons, but they're too cannibalistic to mass farm efficiently. In Hawaii, they tried feeding them water hyacinths and putting cinder blocks in the ponds to provide cover during their periods of vulnerability when molting. They ate the weeds just fine, but still ate each other, too.

In Louisiana there was a small wild fishery for these and other species of Macrobrachium. They'd sink bundles of fresh willow branches in the streams, them raise them up to shake off the feeding prawns.
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landlocked beachbum · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 5:57 pm Post subject:

Very interesting stuff Wink

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kweber · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 6:31 pm Post subject:

it'd take a porn star to go "Louisianna" on that thing....
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frayed · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:16 pm Post subject:

That's a badass crawdad. Anyone here eaten one?
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rabbit · Posted: Wed Jul 09, 2008 7:22 pm Post subject:

Looks like it has a pretty good reach.
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Seabass · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:48 am Post subject:

A couple years ago a guy told me that he used to catch "freshwater lobster" in the springs in San Marcos in the 1990's. I looked all over on the i-net for such a thing but couldn't find info, so i thought he was foolin me. Then i searched using a different name and found out more about them. They actually DO exist... but are getting scarce. Something about how rivers that flow to the gulf are continually being interrupted by dams, structures, etc. so that the young can't get back to the home grounds.

I'd like to catch and eat one at least once ...

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CARDSHARK · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 5:54 am Post subject:

I caught one of those in Rockport before.It was the middle of winter.

Eightball Express · Posted: Thu Jul 10, 2008 7:07 am Post subject:

If the prawn is caught in fresh, clear water they are not bad. If it lives in the muddy rivers we have around here, they taste kind of "muddy", if you know what I mean.
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ironmanstan · Posted: Fri Jul 11, 2008 2:55 pm Post subject:

I used to catch them all the time in the arroyo in Harlingen when i was a kid good eating.
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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.