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Doesn't matter Cliff...you won't find any in Texas!

They are a 1/2 shell molusk with a foot that ataches to rocks. they come in several flavors...Black, Green, Red, Pink, and White with the white being most prized.

They are Goooood eating but popularity has gotten the best of them. Takes 5-7 years to grow to legal size. In the '50s and '60s you could find blacks and greens at low tide. By the '80s they were scarce and had a bag limit of four and then later two. Very hard to find now and there has been a moretoreum on them in So Cal for at least a decade. More plentiful in N cal.

In addition they are hemopheliac so if you nic the foot while removing and measiring...they are eel food...and eels will challenge you for them! A special wide tipped and blunt ab iron must be used.

I have busted many folks going after them and have been able to flag down boats to contact F&G...great feeling! If I ever discover someone like the guys noted above...I would set their car afire...with them in it!



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