Caught selling walking cats&snakeheads

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You can catch these guys throughout florida and they share the canals they live in with cichlids as well so they don't do any real damage. They are a predator and they do what they know. The government puts out all these stupid facts that many people later find out are a total joke just to worry people. Carp are far worse then snakehead. My father owned one way back when they were legal and he had it in a community tank with an aro, a pacu, and a jag cichlid and it was fine. I personally would sell off all my fish to have one but that's isn't gonna happen so ill settle for my juvie bowfin for now

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Egon said:
I agree! Everything pulled out of the waterways that looks like a Snakehead or Bowfin is just called a Snakehead now. I guess that means there's no more Bowfins? None. 6000 Snakeheads and zero Bowfin..... :confused:

IMO the Bowfins are still there, now everyone is calling them Snakeheads and killing them.

Here's a good example of Media-panic:

"I participated last year and caught a half a dozen in a couple hours. They a freakin' delicious! We took over 6,000 from a few mile stretch of the damn river!!!"

Didn't happen with out a picture. I bet over half of these were Bowfin, Dog fish, or whatever else the hillbillies call them this week....
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Yup we have few calls from concerned citizens if they caught a "snakehead" which later revealed to be just an old plain bowfin. I remember that case where a snakehead were discovered in Great Lakes, turns out to be a bowfin....yup media panic is responsible for declining bowfin populations.
 
Egon said:
I agree! Everything pulled out of the waterways that looks like a Snakehead or Bowfin is just called a Snakehead now. I guess that means there's no more Bowfins? None. 6000 Snakeheads and zero Bowfin..... :confused:

IMO the Bowfins are still there, now everyone is calling them Snakeheads and killing them.

Here's a good example of Media-panic:

"I participated last year and caught a half a dozen in a couple hours. They a freakin' delicious! We took over 6,000 from a few mile stretch of the damn river!!!"

Didn't happen with out a picture. I bet over half of these were Bowfin, Dog fish, or whatever else the hillbillies call them this week....
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1. Whatever, if I feel really motivated, I might try to dig up pictures from this years annual MD. Potomac River snakehead tournament. As lazy as I am, don't hold your breath. I was far from a citation winner at this torney. At least 500 anglers participated, and I am sure that many have already posted pictures. Someone else better at photography and patience can post pictures, or you can go online to the website and view many of the weekends events in photography, if electronic attendance is indeed your preference.

2. I posted about the event and contact information in two different sections (Cold Water & Fishing) of MFK in advance to get attendance from the MFK crowd. Noboby here could bend a rod, oh well!

3. There was a F'ing Huge seminar on the safest way to kill the Snakehead.

4. My biggest concern is that imbiciles would mistake Bowfin from Snakehead. Flyers and informationals distinguishing the Bowfin from Snakehead were abundantly prevailent. I still kept an eagle eye, and saw nobody land a Bowfin.

5. Profession chef's were brought to the event to teach the culinary preparation and cooking of the Snakehead. I checked with the Administration and got the OK to invite MFK (to participate no charge) for the Snakehead Fish Tasting phase of the event. (You can find hundreds of pictures of we Baltimore/ Washington D.C. area anglers devouring the delictable Snakehead, but again they smell and taste much better than you will gather from viewing the photos of the event online.

Do yourself a favor and come out to the next annual Potomac River Snakehead Tournament and you won't be disapointed.
 
screaminleeman said:
1. Whatever, if I feel really motivated, I might try to dig up pictures from this years annual MD. Potomac River snakehead tournament. As lazy as I am, don't hold your breath. I was far from a citation winner at this torney. At least 500 anglers participated, and I am sure that many have already posted pictures. Someone else better at photography and patience can post pictures, or you can go online to the website and view many of the weekends events in photography, if electronic attendance is indeed your preference.

2. I posted about the event and contact information in two different sections (Cold Water & Fishing) of MFK in advance to get attendance from the MFK crowd. Noboby here could bend a rod, oh well!

3. There was a F'ing Huge seminar on the safest way to kill the Snakehead.

4. My biggest concern is that imbiciles would mistake Bowfin from Snakehead. Flyers and informationals distinguishing the Bowfin from Snakehead were abundantly prevailent. I still kept an eagle eye, and saw nobody land a Bowfin.

5. Profession chef's were brought to the event to teach the culinary preparation and cooking of the Snakehead. I checked with the Administration and got the OK to invite MFK (to participate no charge) for the Snakehead Fish Tasting phase of the event. (You can find hundreds of pictures of we Baltimore/ Washington D.C. area anglers devouring the delictable Snakehead, but again they smell and taste much better than you will gather from viewing the photos of the event online.

Do yourself a favor and come out to the next annual Potomac River Snakehead Tournament and you won't be disapointed.
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I'm sure they have caught few bowfins while you are not looking, not all imbiciles use flyers and informationals to distinguishing bowfins from snakeheads (once again we have few cases where someone mistook a bowfin for a snakehead and its really that common occurance).
 
I hate when people kill bowfin my favorite fishh to catch and beautiful they fight so hard I wish people could see the power they hold beats boring bass. Also snakehead arnt as aggressive in the wild than in a tank , bowfin and snakehead have not extinct
any species, and bowfin have been here since the dinosaurs before bass and nothing has been declined because of them. some peopld really need to be educated.
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