HUGE knifefish caught in FL canal!!!

[UnbelieveableD]

I lived in Ft Lauderdale till I was about 20, and would just walk around fishing in the canals by my house. It's still hard for me to believe just how many exotic fish and other animals are released right into peoples back yards.

 

[Louie]

I lived in Ft Lauderdale till I was about 20, and would just walk around fishing in the canals by my house. It's still hard for me to believe just how many exotic fish and other animals are released right into peoples back yards.

lol some of the best cichlid breeding grounds are in those gated house community ponds or those "lakes" which are suronded by houses and thus no access to anyone but those who live there.

Its a cichlid fisherman/womens "rip off" lol

 

[Mike917]

Damn

 

[Bderick67]

Photo has noy been photo shopped, it was stretched. When I copied it though it did copy unstretched.

You ca see it unstretched below or by clicking on the pic in the original post

 

[fobrinkle]

Yeah, it also looks photoshopped to me.

If you look at the fingers of the hands holding the fish, there seems to be some kind of red outline around them, very thin but visible. Also, the second hand doesn't seem to be holding the knifefish, which should cause it to at least bend, which its not.

AND the fins make it look like its undulating. The top fin is also outstretched.

I know they get this big and even bigger, but a real picture would be nice.

His other hand is probably in the fishes gill. It is a very common way for fisherman to hold large predators with large teeth.

 

[varanio]

I thought they would have an effect due to their adult size and ability to move any bass off its breeding area and or kill it.

While even the biggest cichlid isnt going to impose its will on any spawning bass.

They hardly hunt fish, more crustacean eating than anything else. It is actually the other way around, I have seen peacock and LMB trying to hunt the Sh fry while the parents are guarding.

 

[mojo2776]

Should get some nice big filets off of that...

 

[Louie]

They hardly hunt fish, more crustacean eating than anything else. It is actually the other way around, I have seen peacock and LMB trying to hunt the Sh fry while the parents are guarding.

I would have never thought that LMB would try to eat SH fry with parents in area .

 

[hybridtheoryd16]

stretched or not that article on pg 1 says they have caught them in fl up to 879mm in length and that is 34.6 inches. So a clown just shy of 3 feet is a monster no matter what.

 

[hurricane_redbone]

i know that particular fish was caught in lake ida...