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| Freshwater crab #12831513 07/17/18 05:40 PM |
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Kids found a crab under a rock at Hubbard Creek lake in Breckenridge the other day. I had never seen or heard of a freshwater crab before so I emailed a picture to TPWD. Received a prompt reply stating that their Abilene Fisheries department identified it as a Harris crab and they have been introduced into several lakes in my area including possum kingdom. I thought it was pretty interesting.
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| Re: Freshwater crab [Re: wh2004] #12832256 07/18/18 03:10 AM |
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Granbury too. Look like the crabs you see at night on the beach.
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| Re: Freshwater crab [Re: wh2004] #12832262 07/18/18 03:13 AM |
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Hubbard Creek is full of them. With the lake low just turn over any large recently submerged tree limb or rock. Some get a little bigger than a silver dollar
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| Re: Freshwater crab [Re: wh2004] #12841382 07/25/18 04:59 PM |
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I’m wondering 2 things…
First, would they make good catfish bait? Crawfish and shrimp are great bait so I don’t see why not.
Second, is it legal to use them for bait?
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| Re: Freshwater crab [Re: wh2004] #12849675 08/01/18 05:15 PM |
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Holy moly – Wiki says there’s about 1,300 species of them!
Fishing, a man knows a serenity of soul and peace of mind that he finds in doing nothing else, and it makes no difference whether or not he catches anything. The mind of a true fisherman is not on petty subjects.
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| Re: Freshwater crab [Re: wh2004] #12857127 08/08/18 03:13 AM |
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A game warden told me they are impacting the crawdad populations, haven’t seen any data to support that.
I actually throw a DOA crab with good success.
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