Fishing with Rod Discussion Forum
Fishing in British Columbia => General Discussion => Topic started by: oni_kage on February 18, 2015, 05:11:33 AM
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Hi my friend often caught these in her prawn trap around Sept 2014. I just saw these photos and I was trying to figure out what they were. Maybe someone on here know.
http://m.imgur.com/a/Fqd6p (http://m.imgur.com/a/Fqd6p)
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The red one looks to me like a Tanner crab. Funny because the only time I've ever seen one in real life we were doing the same thing and I had no idea what it was, but my commie friend Told me it was called a Tanner. The other guy Ive never seen before.
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Red one I believe is a "Squat lobster" and the other one is a related family member of the king crab.
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What sort of depth where you at? This may help identify .
Did you eat them? This is interesting
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What sort of depth where you at? This may help identify .
Did you eat them? This is interesting
Thanks for all your responses!
It was around 180 feet near hole in the wall.
No she didn't eat them, but she said she would usually catch those lobster looking things. She only caught one of those spiky crabs.
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Red one I believe is a "Squat lobster" and the other one is a related family member of the king crab.
Just looked up 'squat lobster' and it looks like that is it. Did some research and it is also called a Galatheid Crab. What makes them unique is they survive by eating old wood!
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Just looked up 'squat lobster' and it looks like that is it. Did some research and it is also called a Galatheid Crab. What makes them unique is they survive by eating old wood!
That's cool, used to see lots of them in traps pulled up near rocky areas and areas where lots of prawns tend to be found. Eating old wood... woody lobster. :D