Crab Hatch?

[chefchris401]

I think they are baby lady crabs.

I remember swimming at Barrington beach a couple seasons ago and they were everywhere and so where the adult size ones biting your feet as you tried to walk.

The bass,mostly schoolies were swimming around eating em right in wash while we stood in waist deep water just watching em. I had footage on an old computer that crapped the bed.

Pretty cool sight, probably more aggrevating to fish than the worm hatch.
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[DZ]

Generally happens in August. Years ago I was in a friends boat (I know, what the hell was DZ doing on a boat?) and they were all over the surface on Brenton Reef with cow bass just guzzeling them. We threw everything in the bag at them - caught one bass about three pounds on the smallest bucktail we had. Frustrated my partner Al says lets troll unbrellas through them. Two umbrella rigs towed about 50 feet and both rods double over. Long story short we broke off everything. One frame came in destroyed with no tubes left. The other came in with tubes missing and straightened hooks - one hook point had a scale the size of a quarter embedded on the point. Got schooled.

[Got Stripers]

When I see the krill off Westport in June swarming and schoolies slurping, it takes downsizing to some small plastic (sometimes 3") and light 3/8oz Kalin jig heads to at least be able to throw them to coax some of the more greedy bass to hit.

[bloocrab]

Mike, there was no shortage of blueclaws up this way....when they arrived, they came in hard (main reason I figured it was them??).

I've done some moderate research on some of the suggestions posted along with my own googling and still haven't come up with a direct hit based on my image.

Perhaps the images available online are at different stages and I just happened to catch this species at a stage that's ungoogli-fied???
I guess you can "stump" google from time to time??

IMO, it's obviously a crab_
Asian?
Spider?
Lady?
Blue?
Crotch?

Cool site regardless....just nature doing its thing.

[wdmso]

Was out Wednesday night found blue fish on peanut bunker had the live well going . on the way in Had my daughter pull the drain plug when she pulled her arm out she had tiny crabs like you posted on her arms and in the tank. this was around Swansea she commented on the size of their claws also

[rphud]

Little patch of wool or yarn (about 1/8" or so) on a size 16 or smaller, and just let it go with the flow. Can be "worse" than clam worm fishing, if ya know what I mean.

I usually just watch the show and enjoy the moment.