What are these on my prawn trap?

[bankers hours]

I lost my traps for a few days in the broken islands and finally found my traps. Strange creatures attached to it?
http://s990.photobucket.com/albums/af26/danwill898/?action=edit&current=BrokenIslands009.jpg

 

[nedarb2]

link doesnt work.

if they look like mini lobsters, (which are a "common weird creature in prawn traps") there called dwarf lobsters i think (blind guess here with no pic )

 

[bankers hours]

I am a first timer posting pictures....

Try this:

 

[Dirtdog67]

Some weird undiscovered species that likes prawns as much as you do!!-dirty

 

[nedarb2]

wow those are weird?! I have never seen those, but they look like some type of feather star.
whats inside of it btw, just a star fish?

 

[bankers hours]

The trap was lost for a over a week. It was found in 150 feet of water near Swale Rock....around 3 miles away from the drop zone. Strange it was found in shallow water, as I run 300 ft of rope on the trap. Also in the trap were slime eels, star fish and about 5 prawns.

 

[nedarb2]

sure is neat whats really down there hey!
the current can really whip traps around, your trap would be dragging the float around on an angle, i guess 45 degress if it landed in 1/2 the water you dropped it in... lucky find though 3 miles away

 

[islandboy]

quote:Originally posted by nedarb2

sure is neat whats really down there hey!
the current can really whip traps around, your trap would be dragging the float around on an angle, i guess 45 degress if it landed in 1/2 the water you dropped it in... lucky find though 3 miles away

I was on the understanding you should weight your trap to sink your float in heavy current (thus not move the trap). The idea being you would still be able to retrieve your trap between current flows. comments?

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[spring fever]

I don't think I could do that-how do you know you didn't tangle on the way down and then you have no way of recovery. I weight each trap individually and also run 10 pounds on the bottom of the line. I usually set in 300-350 ft of water and use 450ft of float rope and about another 100 between the 2 traps. After I set -I go back and check the depths and that the traps are stable-mark the set on gps and leave for a couple of days while I go seaward. I seldom get any drift and the set is relativly heavy so you never get any caual hand pulling for "just a feed"

 

[nedarb2]

quote:Originally posted by islandboy

quote:Originally posted by nedarb2

sure is neat whats really down there hey!
the current can really whip traps around, your trap would be dragging the float around on an angle, i guess 45 degress if it landed in 1/2 the water you dropped it in... lucky find though 3 miles away

I was on the understanding you should weight your trap to sink your float in heavy current (thus not move the trap). The idea being you would still be able to retrieve your trap between current flows. comments?

www.kayaks2.com

NO. its actually illegal to purposely sink your floats inbetween sets. I put 7-10lbs in each trap to get it down to bottom - once its there its usually set and settles onto bottom - its just getting it 300' down where the currents take it away like a sail.

 

[wayne.mck]

They are crinoids.

http://www.video.ca/video.php?id=1173936293&mode=views&page=25

They reside in about 100 ft of water and where they are present the bottom is quite littered with them.

Wayne

 

[nedarb2]

quote:Originally posted by wayne.mck

They are crinoids.

that is the family, in which feather stars belong

 

[bankers hours]

Thanks Wayne.... Those are definately them.