Got this in my dead shrimp bait and have no clue what it is, anyone have a clue???










looks weird ey??

mantis shrimp...they're so cool

they are predators and stun smaller fish and such by "punching" them

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu6yrC6bjNo

They call em sea lice at the baitshops.
I used to use them in corpus christi off the piers to catch HUGE BLACK DRUM. They stay on your hook better than shrimp. And are just as good dead (as long as they're fresh) as they are alive. Be careful when you're hooking it though, they're throny little bastards.

holy s@#t, thats crazy,,, its freakin punching the crab lmao

well i dont think it will be fresh anymore.. its currently n my freezer lmao i saved it

Yeah, supposedly these things have even broken the glass in aquariums. Got one in some crappy boiling shrimp from Asia, eats just like crappy asian shrimp.

Was fishing with Destroyer a couple weekends ago and his friend caught one on a line that probably went 10 inches or so. maybe he can post up a pic as I was surprised to see one that large but hey, he caught it on a whole shrimp so it must of been hungry( or just had a beef with that shrimp and felt like boxing,lol)

Those dudes will F*** you up, be careful

For it's size, it has the most powerful 'punch' than any other animal. Kinda like a "ninja shrimp" wouldn't you say? I guess it is from too much watching National Geographic TV on my part.

that is just crazy, i never knew such creature existed,,i watched the other vids on youtube and its just amusing

Sheephead love em.

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Back in the day's when I used 'live shrimp' on my charters - I had a lady from up north somewhere that asked me not to refer to the shrimp that had died as "dead shrimp" - so I started calling them "recently alive" shrimp.

I know a guy in Ca. who was messing with one on a head-boat one day. it got pissed and cut his middle fingertip in half with one hit, it was like milliseconds. blood everywhere. that little bastage went down on a hook & brought up an 8# calico about
2 minutes later. unfortunately he didn't survive the encounter,
but my buddy still has a mangled finger to this day, almost 20 years later

lol wow

Sea lice are awsome bait for big black drum. We went out on one of those big bay boats out of port a, and this guy on the back of the boat had brought a bunch of them with him. Like you i had never seen anything like it. He told me how they were some badasses and how to grab them without getting jacked up. Then he showed me how well they work for black drum when he landed a 40+" black drum that had to weigh over 30lbs.

im tryna find a bait shop that carries these down here on the galvston or kemah area,,im still gunna try an use theone i have frozen and see if it works lol

looks like what some people call ghost shrimp. to me looks like sea lice. i heard from locals in corpus that they use ghost shrimp for specs.

kool

yes, they call them sea lice here. Ghost shrimp are another story.

ive never seen them sell sea lice/ mantis shrimp in any bait shops,,i guess there not very in demand or the just dont catch alot of them??

Mantis shrimp ... they're on the west coast as well. They have some seriously sharp fins/spines along the back half of their body.

Delicious, but use extreme caution in handling!

will do zeek thanks

Back when I lived on Oahu I heard stories of someone catching one of those in Ala Wai Canal that weighed like 2 or 3 lbs. or so. For the record that canal is pretty darn polluted. If you fall in you better seek medical attention ASAP.

They are the Chuck Norris of the ocean.

lol

I've never seen them for sale in the galveston area, but you can find them live/dead in most corpus area bait shops around this time.

o ok thanks