Are you close to the power plant & was it glowing ?

Watch out cause they hav a nasty bite!!

what the :xxx: is that????

I think the power plant is what brought them here...

i caught one in the bay a month ago

Video of what they can do.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hkv_30niM_A

wouldnt wanta get in a fight with that thing after watching the video!

Or step in one in the bay. Friend caught one in the bay this year.

now i gotta watch where i walk at tices

suprised i never saw one in the rocks when i catch green crabs?? maybe they just stay underwater all the time

Found a 5 inch mantis shrimp in the belly of a 19 inch fluke in June north of BI in the open bay. Also have found them over the years in the belly of striped bass. For some interesting writeups on these devilish creatures, do a Google search. quite interesting to say the least. Tite lines!

In nine years i have never bottom fished off my dock this time of the year.I've netted bunker at night and live lined them for Blues or Weakies. I started fishing off the dock at 7 am after my wife left for work with just useing 10 pound test with two split shot for weight and a NO-6 hook, i used Fish Bite worm and Frozen shrimp. I started catching-Spot-Porgies-Small Sheepeshead-a couple of White Perch-Baby Black Drum-a lot of baby fluke that had to go back of course,and now a Mantis shrimp.My Lagoon is a Nursery.The majority of the fish were caught on the shimp.That Manthis shrimp looks like that thing {Arnold Swartsnaker}had that fight with.....

Pogy, where is your lagoon? sounds like fun. we are in green island....in the back. not much happening there

Ship DR off Playhouse.

They are a delicacy to Stripers. They live in muddy bottoms and are mainly active at night and low light. They are talked about in the October issue of NJ Angler- pages 51-52.