On Friday night, Walter Jones of Candelo was prawning in the Bega River at Handcocks Bridge, Mogareeka when he saw the creature.

“My mate got it in his net and showed it to me and I thought ‘wow’,” he said. 

“I’d never seen anything like that before. 

“I showed it to a couple of other fishermen and they all said ‘what the hell is that?’.”

Mr Jones said the creepy-looking creature’s body was about 8cm long and it had two long arms about 22cm, as well as a few extra hair-like antenna than a normal prawn would have.

It was aggressive and when he picked the creature up by the tail it grabbed him straight away with sharp claws, “like needles”.  

But what happened to the creature Mr Jones found? 

“I ate his body and kept the head and legs,” he said. 

“It tasted really bad, a bit like egg.

“The others tasted really good though!”