Northern snakehead fish

[daveag.]

Missouri Dept Conservation reports that an invasive Asian fish is on the prowl. This fish can live on land. If you see one, a Mark II Bull barrel is perfect for killing these things.

 

[coach]

They showed up in md 20 years back. They actually poisoned a few ponds trying to nip the problem early. It didn’t solve the problem as the fish can move over land for a distance and are in most freshwater rivers that lead into the Chesapeake. Any fish caught are required to be killed with no limits. According to the DNR the meat is tasty.

 

[Hvymax]

I would personally consider them comparable to Stripers. The reason they were trying to grow them in ponds was how much Asian restaurants would pay for them. They're so prolific because they can spawn multiple times a year and protect their fry. Easiest way to catch them is find a fry ball and cast near it. Catch both parents and net the young.

 

[protoolman]

Missouri Dept Conservation reports that an invasive Asian fish is on the prowl. This fish can live on land. If you see one, a Mark II Bull barrel is perfect for killing these things.

Darn, I usually only carry my Tapered barrel standard MKII. However I do have a 6 7/8 ths. Gubmint model I can break out if the dern things require some special killen that only a bull bbl. can handle!

 

[The Preacher]

My boy loves to fish for them in the backwaters of the Chesapeake Bay. Says they fight like a bull and are extremely good to eat. I've had some and he's right. Just ugly as sin. Here's one he took...

 

[Johnnu2]

WOW.... Big Boy and Big Fish..... great picture

J.

 

[harley08]

Johnnu2 - Wow Nice catch!
Take me fishing!

 

[Johnnu2]

Johnnu2 - Wow Nice catch!
Take me fishing!

That's The Preacher's son...!!!

J.

 

[The Preacher]

Trained him up right John... but the student has gone well beyond the teacher in both hunting and fishing. Proud of him.

 

[Bob Wright]

Chinese restaurants! I avoid them like plague! Too many gruesome stories here in Memphis that turn me off. And these stories authenticated.

The health department here in Memphis was alerted to a foul smell coming froma Chinese restaurant. Investigators found about a dozen ducks, gutted and de-feathered, hanging in the sun on a makeshift clothesline behind the restaurant. This prepatory to being made into a Chinese dish.

Another news story: A black man killed a large cottonmouth near the Mississippi River. He was bringing it home when a Chinese saw him with it and bought it from him for a few dollars. Upon hearing the story, a Shelby County Sheriff's deputy investigated and went into the kitchen. There was what remained of the cottonmouth as cooks were butchering the sanke for a dish they wer preparing.

A co-worker of mine spent two years in China on a project there and will not even walk by a Chinese restaurant if he can help it.

Bob Wright

 

[Bob Wright]

Anybody remember the walking catfish problem in Florida a few years back?

Bob Wright

 

[Wyandot Jim]

That fish looks like a Bowfin or as my Morgan City Cajun friend would call it a Choupique which he loved to fish for back in the bayous of South Louisiana.


Bowfin, or "grinnel" as they're called in Arkansas, are a prehistoric, bone-headed, air-breathing, eely-finned, monster-fanged fossil-fish dating back to the Jurassic period that fishermen love to hate.

A pretty good one here

 

[daveag.]

MDC says to kill every snakehead that is seen. Good eating, huh? I’d like to try it.

 

[coach]

Coincidentally today I was picking up my boat after being repaired and I saw a sign snakehead lures over a display in the store. I got talking to the guy there and he said how he likes to bow hunt them in shallow water. I mentioned that I heard they were tasty and he said better than rockfish. High praise from Marylander.