Yes they are Coonstripes. My daughters like them better than the Spot Prawns cause they are smaller and fit better in our garlic cheese bake pottery dishes. I like them both the Spots and Coonstripes but the Spot Prawns are sweeter than the Coonstripes. I also got some Humpback shrimp too in the mix but not very many.
Ya where I'm prawning it goes from mud to rock bottom so there's a mix of the species there. When I wanna get more Spots than the shrimp I can just move my traps up a little more north where it's all rocks and all Spot Prawns. I was shocked this time out of the amount of small Red Rock crab that were going in the traps in 300' of water. I've got the odd ones before but I'm talking between 10 to 20 in the traps at times. Made for more work cause I had to pull the traps more often getting rid of the RR crab from the traps. Puts a kink in the prawning but even with that said the numbers of prawns and shrimp were great and I gotta say the Red Rock crab I kept from another area were large and so so sweet tasting. Better than any Dungie I've had yet. I'll be targeting them more in that area from now on over the Dungies. Harder shells but nothing a cracker tool doesn't take care of.