Stuck Fish; Now There All Stuck and Dead!! HELP!

[justinl]

+1 on untamed hypothesis.

A very large mantis would be capable of killing that many fish in that short a time but I highly doubt it was a mantis. Pretty much 100% of the hitching mantids are "smashers" which hit with little club like arms.

the other mantids are "spearers" who work pretty much exactly like a preying mantis. but i doubt that one because ive never heard of a hitching spearer. they live in the sand.

any mantis capable of that kind of damage would be very large and would have made its presence known a long time ago.