Want to make some money catching fish?

[Captain Morgan]

Has to be a specific fish...

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/maryland-offering-200-gift-cards-dead-snakehead-fish-163943568.html

[askmrjesus]

Note to self:

Buy Dynamite.

Spend the weekend in Maryland.

JC

[Gas Man]

that is one scary lookin fish!

[dReWpY]

the story behind this is crazy...
it turned out some dot head bought two fish to sacrafice for his wife who was sick, she got better and he released the two in a local pond, they succesfully reproduced and the offspring have been ruinning local fisheries.

[Adeptus_Minor]

Yeah, these things are becoming the feral hogs of our waterways if the reports are accurate.
Wouldn't mind collecting bounties on them, but I hope they don't mind them being clubbed or shot for good measure. :lol:

[Gas Man]

the story behind this is crazy...
it turned out some dot head bought two fish to sacrafice for his wife who was sick, she got better and he released the two in a local pond, they succesfully reproduced and the offspring have been ruinning local fisheries.
I figured you would know the real deal.

So tell them you'll come on as a full timer snake fish hunter. LOL

What's needed to catch these pricks? Ocean test line?

[wildchild]

wasn't long ago snakeheads were big in the fish tank groups. my buddy had one in his tank. after awhile it was all he had in his tank. they kill and eat anything. they can survive tough conditions.

many folks let them go, in waterways thinking it would be funny. asshats with no brains. they had a biog problem in the southwest with them a while back I thought. wonder if thye solved the problem and how. I think the easiest way would be to kill the water system entirely and then restock. sucks but very little else will work.

[askmrjesus]

What's needed to catch these pricks? Ocean test line?

Shotgun.

Or at least steel leaders.

JC

[dReWpY]

wasn't long ago snakeheads were big in the fish tank groups. my buddy had one in his tank. after awhile it was all he had in his tank. they kill and eat anything. they can survive tough conditions.

many folks let them go, in waterways thinking it would be funny. asshats with no brains. they had a biog problem in the southwest with them a while back I thought. wonder if thye solved the problem and how. I think the easiest way would be to kill the water system entirely and then restock. sucks but very little else will work.

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotenone


that's what they did to most of the places that had them
We had a scare at the twra

[caveman]

that is one scary lookin fish!

Not much scarier than a pike. Don't be such a sissy, Gas. Get out there with a pole and some beers and a side arm to finish em off before pullin 'em into the boat. Bam--$200 a pop and we can go buy some cool shit from BPS

[tommymac]

Was and I guess till is a big problem in maryland, there has been a few tv documentaries about them. I think they were planning to or maybe poisoned an entire lake to kill them out of fear of them getting into the potomic river and realy wreaking havoc.

problem is these things have no natural enemies here so they prety much proliferate unchecked.

Also I am not sure if this species of snake head is the same we put in aquariums. They are badass but I had a blue channel catfish actualy kill one in my tank.

[dReWpY]

I think in all fairness a blue cat is the great white shark of fw .... ain't shit they won't eat. period

[tommymac]

I think in all fairness a blue cat is the great white shark of fw .... ain't shit they won't eat. period

he didnt fare to well against my common snapping turtle. he took out a snakehead and a jack dempsey and i was rather pissed so turtle food he became ;lol:

[Tmall]

I wonder if its cheaper than 200 to have em shipped to your door? Somebody could make a fortune off of this.

[Particle Man]

A buddy of mine had 2 in his tank years ago - they were completely insane fish. They'd kill and eat just about anything. They eventually died but were insane for a while.