View Full Version : Snake heads near my neck of the woods
Mudfrog
10-13-2005, 1:51 PM
Check this link out.. That is a lot of snake heads..
http://www.dailypress.com/news/local/bal-md.ar.snakehead13oct13,0,7869082.story?coll=dp-news-local-final
The TRUST
10-13-2005, 2:15 PM
All you North East Channa fans must be getting ready for a fishing trip now.
unknownuza13
10-13-2005, 2:17 PM
Li are you down?
The TRUST
10-13-2005, 2:26 PM
Li are you down?
Li isn't a fisherman. I dont think he knows even how to tie a knot properly.
joeytoe
10-13-2005, 2:30 PM
Li isn't a fisherman. I dont think he knows even how to tie a knot properly.
Li needs to study up
http://www.angelfire.com/ia3/fishing/knots.htm
I like to use the The Improved Clinch Knot
Wish we have a place like that here in California..but it would have to be a private pond. If only my reds stayed alive, they'd be in my 5500gal above ground pool for the winter.
The TRUST
10-13-2005, 2:37 PM
I usually go for the Palomar knot. If I am lazy then I use the Clinch knot.
fugupuff
10-13-2005, 5:44 PM
gets me mad reading this kind of stuff....media monster blown out of proportion!!!!!!!!!
quote,"We've got highly desirable species like largemouth bass," said Steve Early, assistant director of fisheries for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. "Snakeheads are going to compete for food with them."
In China and Hong Kong, where snakeheads normally live, for some strange reason, they do not take over the entire lake, still have other game fish available. How do they know that it will overtake the large mouth, plus, there are Amia calva, almost identical to snakeheads, recorded up to 50 pounds in the region too. PLus, Large mouth bass is found all over the country, I don't think wiping out or extinction is a remote possibilty in the near future, plus, Fish and Game can just produce more large mouth babies and stock them dam rivers and lakes, and we can have fisheries of both, we already stock all the lakes in the country! Who says snakeheads are not desireable, to my knowledge its a commercial viable food source in all southeast asian countries!!!
Freakin whitie tighties are the ones who built those dams in the northwest, and killed off all the, "sub-species" of salmons, and now they have to be articficially hatched and stocked, maybe we should rotenone those whitie tighty law makers, and paper pushers, since they've helped decrease the "highly desirable specie"
Media monster, guys watch out, the flu this year is going to wipe out 10 thousand people this year!!??? Freaking retards.... Wait....do you personally know anyone thats died of mad cow disease, how about SARS, compare that number to people to you know who've just died of a car acident or anything else for all that matters....
Ok, enough of me venting, its 100 degrees here and I should be posting this on CJ instead...haha....
The TRUST
10-13-2005, 6:00 PM
gets me mad reading this kind of stuff....media monster blown out of proportion!!!!!!!!!
quote,"We've got highly desirable species like largemouth bass," said Steve Early, assistant director of fisheries for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. "Snakeheads are going to compete for food with them."
In China and Hong Kong, where snakeheads normally live, for some strange reason, they do not take over the entire lake, still have other game fish available. How do they know that it will overtake the large mouth, plus, there are Amia calva, almost identical to snakeheads, recorded up to 50 pounds in the region too. PLus, Large mouth bass is found all over the country, I don't think wiping out or extinction is a remote possibilty in the near future, plus, Fish and Game can just produce more large mouth babies and stock them dam rivers and lakes, and we can have fisheries of both, we already stock all the lakes in the country! Who says snakeheads are not desireable, to my knowledge its a commercial viable food source in all southeast asian countries!!!
Freakin whitie tighties are the ones who built those dams in the northwest, and killed off all the, "sub-species" of salmons, and now they have to be articficially hatched and stocked, maybe we should rotenone those whitie tighty law makers, and paper pushers, since they've helped decrease the "highly desirable specie"
Media monster, guys watch out, the flu this year is going to wipe out 10 thousand people this year!!??? Freaking retards.... Wait....do you personally know anyone thats died of mad cow disease, how about SARS, compare that number to people to you know who've just died of a car acident or anything else for all that matters....
Ok, enough of me venting, its 100 degrees here and I should be posting this on CJ instead...haha....
hahahahahahah CJ! LOL! I hear ya Wes.
LMB has been introduced outside its natural range and has decimated other native species. I also agree with you on the snakeheads not eating off everything in the lakes and rivers in Asia. IMO, my support goes to the Snakeheads. I hope that they spread as far as they can. Fishermen will finally see that they do make a great game fish species. For all you know it could attract tourist to fish for them. The same way Peacock Bass has done for southern FL.
DeLgAdO
10-13-2005, 6:04 PM
gets me mad reading this kind of stuff....media monster blown out of proportion!!!!!!!!!
quote,"We've got highly desirable species like largemouth bass," said Steve Early, assistant director of fisheries for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources. "Snakeheads are going to compete for food with them."
In China and Hong Kong, where snakeheads normally live, for some strange reason, they do not take over the entire lake, still have other game fish available. How do they know that it will overtake the large mouth, plus, there are Amia calva, almost identical to snakeheads, recorded up to 50 pounds in the region too. PLus, Large mouth bass is found all over the country, I don't think wiping out or extinction is a remote possibilty in the near future, plus, Fish and Game can just produce more large mouth babies and stock them dam rivers and lakes, and we can have fisheries of both, we already stock all the lakes in the country! Who says snakeheads are not desireable, to my knowledge its a commercial viable food source in all southeast asian countries!!!
Freakin whitie tighties are the ones who built those dams in the northwest, and killed off all the, "sub-species" of salmons, and now they have to be articficially hatched and stocked, maybe we should rotenone those whitie tighty law makers, and paper pushers, since they've helped decrease the "highly desirable specie"
Media monster, guys watch out, the flu this year is going to wipe out 10 thousand people this year!!??? Freaking retards.... Wait....do you personally know anyone thats died of mad cow disease, how about SARS, compare that number to people to you know who've just died of a car acident or anything else for all that matters....
Ok, enough of me venting, its 100 degrees here and I should be posting this on CJ instead...haha....
dude you rock wes!!!! :clap :clap
GO SNAKEHEADS!!! :headbang2
fishnthings
10-13-2005, 6:10 PM
well said!!!
I usually go for the Palomar knot. If I am lazy then I use the Clinch knot.
Easiest and strongest knot is the Uni Knott.
I spoke to a biologist at Fish and Wildlife and it is not so much the LMB or other fisheries thye are concerned about but what the snakehead would feed on, i.e., frogs that might become endangered in the region, bugs, and native wildlife that could become eradicated. I don't understand though because they thought that the Cane toad would eradicate the grub (worm) that was eating the sugar cane plantations in Australia. But instead it ate everything and poisoned everything, except what it was suppose to kill. So, without any scientific study, these people at F&W can't really state a "supposedly" occurence, when in fact, other countries has or did not have the same result.
i tie the clinch knot but i through in a simple grandmas's not before this, its never breaks- cajun red is the best fishing line out there
0 memory+toughness like crazy+crazy distence on casts+ minimal stretch+disapears in water
Big Business
10-20-2005, 2:43 PM
the LMB was introduced in the Potomac river a little over a hundred years ago, and there are many other nonatives living in the river.
sandtiger
10-20-2005, 4:08 PM
Heck...rainbow trout and brown trout aren't even native and they are stocked all over the place. The same with carp. I don't want the snakeheads here though. The reason they do well in Asia is because that is where they come from...they are ment to be there. I imagin some species will suffer from the snakehead introduction...probably some small minnow species or amphibian that knowone cares about. To not say it will have an impact shows complete ignorance in ecology. The bowfin fills the same spot as the snakehead...now the two will have to go head-to-head...who do you think would win? The introduction of any large predator can have a serious impact on natives and mess up everything. The snakehead has no business being in the U.S.
Chirs, the place is about 15 min from my house....let go....
Li are you down?
Big Business
10-20-2005, 4:32 PM
The issue is not whether you want the snakeheads in the Potomac or not. no one is saying snakeheads won't have an impact. i'm saying why are people discriminating solely against the snakehead? Why do you say a snakehead has a larger negative impact than other predatory fish? Trout, Muskie, LMB and Flathead cats and other large, predatory fish are commonly introduced into waters in which they are not native to. Are you saying they are not having an ecological impact but snakeheads do? That is ignorance.
Mudfrog
10-20-2005, 8:33 PM
I just saw another news article about some people catching a few in a river that goes through my city. It said there has been a few caught in the past six months. I wonder how long untill we have a problem like up in Northern Va.
gomezladdams
10-20-2005, 8:52 PM
That tears it.Next time I go to DC im bringing my fishing pole :grinyes: :woot:
rayman45
10-20-2005, 9:06 PM
GO WES
good
maybe we can have a new sport fish.... its not worse then trout stocked in ponds
WckedMidas
10-20-2005, 11:38 PM
so whos up for sometime during the weeks next week ? Im game just got to no in advance. Kit you should do some scouting up your way and see if you see anything. I can get you a google map where there catching them hand over fist in va .
sandtiger
10-20-2005, 11:46 PM
The issue is not whether you want the snakeheads in the Potomac or not. no one is saying snakeheads won't have an impact. i'm saying why are people discriminating solely against the snakehead? Why do you say a snakehead has a larger negative impact than other predatory fish? Trout, Muskie, LMB and Flathead cats and other large, predatory fish are commonly introduced into waters in which they are not native to. Are you saying they are not having an ecological impact but snakeheads do? That is ignorance.
I never said the other fish did not have an impact. In my first post I even mentioned some introduced species (brown trout, rainbow trout, carp). But the addition of the snakehead will only make matters worse. I'm not going to celebrate their introduction and undermine the impact they will have.
With that said, whenever I get the chance I WILL fish for them. :D I can do all the complining I want but if they are here they are here to stay, I gotta adapt just like the rest of the fish do.
what u all waiting for??? GO FISH THEM OUT!!!!
:hitting: :lol3:
WckedMidas
10-21-2005, 4:47 AM
sometime during this week ima try to go for them
ide go tomorow but im getting a friend to adjust the valves on this land cruiser i just bought me. and sat im getting exhuast done sunday im wheeling it sounds like monday morning might be a good day or tuesday hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
Monster VooDoo Fish
10-21-2005, 12:09 PM
I might go check it out this w/e. I'm a catch and release type of guy but I'll do what has to be done. I heard their good eat'n. :drool:
leviathon13
01-03-2006, 10:58 AM
hahahahahahah CJ! LOL! I hear ya Wes.
LMB has been introduced outside its natural range and has decimated other native species. I also agree with you on the snakeheads not eating off everything in the lakes and rivers in Asia. IMO, my support goes to the Snakeheads. I hope that they spread as far as they can. Fishermen will finally see that they do make a great game fish species. For all you know it could attract tourist to fish for them. The same way Peacock Bass has done for southern FL.
AMEN!! :clap
pinnky
01-03-2006, 11:27 AM
hope they make their way down here =)
stotty
01-03-2006, 12:02 PM
look at this then
http://www.fishtanksandponds.net/se...easing_fish.htm
Blood Knot works well
don't think link is still there but tell of how a Wels Catfish was released into a bird sanctuary and grew to over 100lb and had munched all the ducks