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ziacatcher · Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2019 3:59 pm Post subject: Need identification

Found this attached to a decoy down on pins on Saturday. What is it. I'm sure CS will know.

By the way I got my boat back and I went out fishing today about 2. At first I hardly got a bite retrieving the lower the way I've been doing recently which was landed saying can barely twitch it. Picked up the retrieve just a hair more and it was fish on constantly after that including big babies like this. The biggest was 19 and all the fish were filled with big table size shrimp

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ratherbefishing · Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2019 4:09 pm Post subject:

Looks like an ordinary pink bathroom rug or towel.

Oh, do you mean the thing that looks like a sea cucumber?...
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Salt On the Brain · Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2019 6:08 pm Post subject:

Fireworm-Bristleworm-Seamouse.
Careful, they will hurt you.
LF
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Take it outside!

Vern · Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2019 7:43 pm Post subject:

Looks like its gonna hurt if you touch it....
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ziacatcher · Posted: Tue Apr 02, 2019 9:04 pm Post subject:

Central Scrutinizer · Posted: Wed Apr 03, 2019 8:25 am Post subject:

Sure looks like a bristleworm to me. The wife got lucky if she touched it unscathed. They can pack a wallop!!!

I found an old Army ammo can that washed up on PINS once, it it was covered with bristleworms. Shocked

I, for one, let them be (after a nice picture, mind you).

Prof. Salt · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 8:11 am Post subject:

I found one and re-homed it in my aquarium for a year. Cool to look at, but if your wife touched it and came away unscathed she's lucky. Those little bristles are silica and very sharp. They go through skin easily, then snap off and break into many sharp-edged pieces. It burns for a week or longer because the pieces aggravate the nerves without needing any venom. Still, they're really cool little worms.

Prof. Salt · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 8:21 am Post subject:

Mine was a different variety of bristle worm, but they all share the same defensive strategy. The bushy growths beside each tube of spears are sensory organs that trigger the spears to extend out and encourage potential predators to go elsewhere.

Central Scrutinizer · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 8:32 am Post subject:

Prof. Salt · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 9:50 am Post subject:

Lol, at the end of a year I released her at Packery (close to where I found her) and as I was moving rocks around in the tank I discovered that she had produced over a dozen babies at some point and I never even realized they were in the tank.

bulldog1935 · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 10:12 am Post subject:

sea slug/ nudibranch (spanish dancer) would be a cool snag for your tank

Prof. Salt · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 10:57 am Post subject:

I've had them and they are really interesting, but they ate algae faster than I could replace it. I was only able to hold one for a week before returning it.

bulldog1935 · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 12:53 pm Post subject:

one from the south Pacific is red and white with ticks of blue

ziacatcher · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 1:49 pm Post subject:

Thanks guys. Interesting! Yep my wife got lucky

ziacatcher · Posted: Thu Apr 04, 2019 1:54 pm Post subject:

Being that it was my original thread I think I'll sabotage it instead of starting a new one. Went out about 11 in the winds were blowing a little bit and a bite was real strong. Caught a trout about every fourth or fifth Cast although most for undersized. Did come home with four the biggest be in 18 and a half. Lots of what look like shad in the water creating ripples all over the place. First I thought it maybe was Reds creating a wake. Switched over to these two baits exclusively and it seemed to be working well today.