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fishfinder
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 Posted: Fri Oct 19, 2012 11:38 pm Post subject: Jumbo Shrimp around here? |
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Is it common for jumbo shrimp to be around here or is it yet another warm weather freak thing? Walking the beach in Fairfield and saw something out of the corner of my eye in the sand and low and behold there is about a 4 1/2" shrimp squirming there about 20' from shore. I grabbed it, pulled out a long hook used for rigging sluggos and tossed it out there. 10 minutes later my line ripped off my reel of my baitrunner. Either I had a nick in my line or it rubbed me on some oysters as it broke me off before the leader with 20 lb Ande line. I hadnt brought bait with me, just plugs and that was the only bite before it started lightning so I called it quits. Been getting some smaller schoolies and Taylors and this was the first bigger fish in awhile so I am pretty bummed, Had to be a 30 lber or there abouts or a shark of some kind. definitely not a blue! 
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| Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 6:46 am Post subject: |
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It seems like we always lost the bigger fish. 
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| Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 7:04 am Post subject: |
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| Stripedhunter wrote: | | It seems like we always lost the bigger fish. |
They grow really fast after they spit the hook or break off.
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| Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 11:49 am Post subject: |
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Mantis shrimp, the fish we took earlier in the week were full of them.
Crawl a bucktail with a split pork rind on the bottom. Best substitute.
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Michael
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| Posted: Sat Oct 20, 2012 1:03 pm Post subject: |
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| November 2010 I got a 29" 10 pound keeper that had shrimp in it |
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TryHardCTx37
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 6:43 am Post subject: |
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20 pound leader....what r u doing with that?
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getthosestripes
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 7:20 pm Post subject: |
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if you touched a manta shimp, you figer would me hanging by a thread. the have the power of a .22 and can break a fish tank.
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fishfinder
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| Posted: Sun Oct 21, 2012 9:16 pm Post subject: |
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50 lb leader but 20 lb mono. I didnt touch the mantis with mh fingers, it looked to freaky. I carefully just pinned it down with my pliers and stuck the the long sluggo hook through it.
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fishfinder
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Dont recall those huge colored antenna but other than that yeah it looked like that. Its was greyish irredescent and about 4 - 4 1/2 inches long.
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DirtyDawg10
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 9:30 am Post subject: |
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| Probably grass shrimp |
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Crest Daddy
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 7:37 pm Post subject: |
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You guys are all out of control.
A grass shrimp is about an inch long.
The mantis in the video is a tropical species, different than the local species.
It was positively a MANTIS SHRIMP fishfinder found. They are VERY common and every fall my bass have them in their bellies.
There has to be 100 species or more of them throughout the world. Some are clubbers, some are spearers depending on what they prey upon as food. Yes they can break glass. Yes they can split your thumb. Yes Fishfinder found 1 on the beach.
The link shows our local species or very similar one.
http://www.churbuck.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2008/11/110808-1555-critterfrom2.jpg
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getthosestripes
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2012 7:56 pm Post subject: |
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uummmm i dont know how to respond to that................. 
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fishfinder
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That in that pic is absolutely what I saw, grey and almost see through in areas. Glad I was a little freaked out at it or I guess it could have kicked my arse huh?
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