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kellya

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Cool things caught in prawn and crab traps
« on: September 12, 2004, 06:00:50 PM »
Today i was pulling up my prawn trap (400 feet of line 30 lb 5 foot commercial trap=tired arms!).It felt heavier than ushual. i thought it was a big bait stealing starfish. I pulled the trap to the boat and low and behold a big starfish. But i took a closer look when it got closer and i noticed it was to big and red to be a starfish. It was a massive octapus. probaly 6 foot legs with a basketball sized head. I have only seen them diving and i once caught one fishing but they were never close to this big. I looked at it for a bit then let it go. It ate every one of my prawns and judging by the shells i must of had 40. I have also caught 6 full grown dogfish that broke into one of my traps and ripped it to peices. In a crab trap i also caught half a dogfish. im guessing it was killed by a bunch of crabs when it got stuck in the trap. What have you guys caught. ???
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Re:Cool things caught in prawn and crab traps
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2004, 06:31:00 PM »
Nothing too strange.  Some jellyfish and starfish here and there.
Once caught a very sick looking crab.  It had a lot of barnicles growing on it and mold and algae all over its body.  I don't know how it got in, it looked very weak.

Your crabs got upset with the dogfish stealing its food :)
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Re:Cool things caught in prawn and crab traps
« Reply #2 on: September 12, 2004, 06:39:23 PM »
A couple of years ago, I pulled up some eel-like fish, not sure what they were, but they slipped through the netting when the trap was rested on the dock.
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Re:Cool things caught in prawn and crab traps
« Reply #3 on: September 12, 2004, 09:02:51 PM »
Spudcote i think you caught a hagfish. people call them slime eels they are very slimey i once caught one and bullheads.
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Re:Cool things caught in prawn and crab traps
« Reply #4 on: September 12, 2004, 09:23:53 PM »
ahhhhhh!!! jelly fish, after touching it ,it burned like hell!!!
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Re:Cool things caught in prawn and crab traps
« Reply #5 on: September 12, 2004, 10:10:14 PM »
i know what a hag-fish is...it wasn't one of those...looked more like a snakefish type of thing.
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Re:Cool things caught in prawn and crab traps
« Reply #6 on: September 12, 2004, 10:18:25 PM »
Hmm...... some type of gunnle maybe? ???
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Re: Cool things caught in prawn and crab traps
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2006, 08:52:38 PM »
ive caught dogfish, rockfish, sea snails, sea cucumber in prawn traps at quadra island
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Re: Cool things caught in prawn and crab traps
« Reply #8 on: April 15, 2006, 11:04:47 PM »
Squat lobsters, big bullheads (with tell tale signs of antennae out of its mouth), starfish, but most the time Prawns.
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Re: Cool things caught in prawn and crab traps
« Reply #9 on: April 15, 2006, 11:46:58 PM »
A few years ago, while we were fishing on a dock on Salt Spring Island, a gentleman pulled up his crab trap and there was a gigantic pile perch flopping in it. :o
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Re: Cool things caught in prawn and crab traps
« Reply #10 on: April 15, 2006, 11:56:06 PM »
2 lb sea cucumber at ambleside..
i loved to eat seacumber in korea... however it was too gross..
it was a different kind of stuff that i loved.
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Re: Cool things caught in prawn and crab traps
« Reply #11 on: April 17, 2006, 09:55:04 AM »
The coolest thing i have caught would have to be a bullhead ;D
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Re: Cool things caught in prawn and crab traps
« Reply #12 on: April 17, 2006, 10:10:32 AM »
Government wharf in sooke about 20 years ago pulling up the trap and it was getting tugged all around, a young harbour seal had opened up the side and was raiding the trap, it was almost to the surface when it took off...really brave!  Also a mermaids purse in one (stingray egg sac)...very cool.  OH and once an old crabtrap. 
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