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Caught at west arm on a patternoster 9/0 hook! Any ideas?
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lost King Crab.........

yeah dunno but I have caught/seen them before also.....weird mothers.

Epialtidae.......is the family or group name for this type of crab and common names are Spider crab but I can't find an exact match......
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We suspect its from the jurrasic era
So many barnacles and other organisms growing off his body
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Its a decorator crab. uses corals as a camo.
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Does anyone know if they are nice to eat?
They seem to come up a few times a year, one day if I end up with one I wouldn't know if I should toss it back or eat it?
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Throw them back mate. No meat and taste like pure salt apparantly.
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Seriously would you eat something that looks like the head off Predator??? Great photo though. Pretty sure I saw one of those on exhibit at the Darwin museum. Around, but not that common...
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Once Bitten wrote:Seriously would you eat something that looks like the head off Predator??? Great photo though. Pretty sure I saw one of those on exhibit at the Darwin museum. Around, but not that common...
They are actually very common just not often caught unless someone jags one on a fishing line. Channel island reef near the bridge has heaps of them in the rock pools if you have good enough eyes to see them.
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There are plenty of 'decorator crabs' around. i remember diving off Pt Stephens and there were decorator crabs there that were completely covered with soft corals
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Got one last year the size of a 5c piece. Caught on a rapala flat rap mind you.
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very similar to spider crab in uk, boil legs and claws up, not bad chewing.
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That's the crab John West rejected
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spider crab. full of salt. Used to get them in gill nets 30 yrs ago
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Thats awesome!
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