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huge snails?
Posted on 10/24/16 at 2:04 pm
Posted on 10/24/16 at 2:04 pm
Took my son walking around Lake End Park in Morgan City and all over the rocks near the bayou were these huge snails the size of my fist. There were blobs of pink stuff on the rocks. Research shows these are invasive apple snails.
Anybody else encounter these fricking things?
Anybody else encounter these fricking things?
This post was edited on 10/24/16 at 2:05 pm
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Posted on 10/24/16 at 2:08 pm to kook
Apple snails. Yes invasive.
Posted on 10/24/16 at 2:09 pm to kook
They have shown up on the Diversion Canal in the past 6 months.
Posted on 10/24/16 at 2:23 pm to kook
see them on my swamp deer lease (not far from morgan city) and in bayou black. They are all over the place
Posted on 10/24/16 at 2:31 pm to SeaPickle
thinking about taking the boy back with a slingshot
Posted on 10/24/16 at 2:31 pm to SeaPickle
Ducks like snails.. Idk about Apple sized yikes!
Posted on 10/24/16 at 2:35 pm to kook
IIRC, snail kites eat the hell out of them. I could be very wrong though.
Posted on 10/24/16 at 2:37 pm to ChatRabbit77
these were under water
Posted on 10/24/16 at 2:47 pm to kook
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huge snails?
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Apple snails. Yes invasive.
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There were blobs of pink stuff on the rocks.
That is the eggs.
Posted on 10/24/16 at 2:52 pm to kook
make some garlic butter
Posted on 10/24/16 at 3:43 pm to Chad504boy
Not sure if they are eating up the grass in some places, but where I fished a bunch there was really thick hydrilla, now its dead water with pink eggs on everything that sticks out the water.
Posted on 10/24/16 at 3:47 pm to kook
I have a ditch 3' wide and 60' long ditch in my front yard. Back in August when we were having all that rain my ditch kept about 6" of water in it, One night I counted 16 of them frickers in it. Me and my son had an apple snail throwing contest.
This post was edited on 10/24/16 at 3:48 pm
Posted on 10/24/16 at 3:53 pm to tigerbait703
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Not sure if they are eating up the grass in some places
That's exactly what they do and from what im told there is no way to kill them with a chemical without killing the gasses
Posted on 10/24/16 at 4:00 pm to kook
Terrebonne parish is infested now too. Pretty much every ditch and fresh water bayou is crawling with them.
Posted on 10/24/16 at 4:02 pm to cgrand
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make some garlic butter
I tried eating some but they were tough and muddy tasting. GOing to have to do some research as i know they eat them in asia. Got to be a way to make those bastards edible.
Posted on 10/24/16 at 4:26 pm to bayoudude
I think I read somewhere that if the eggs hit the water the fish will tear them up. I been knocking as many as I can see into the water, just trying to do my part.
Posted on 10/24/16 at 4:28 pm to bayoudude
report back!
Posted on 10/24/16 at 4:42 pm to kook
Do they taste good?
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