Emphasis on dangerously, because I mean people that just kill certain species for the hell of it because they "hate them for eating fish they want to catch"
Like things like bowfin that allegedly "eat bass" or gar that eat crappie as they migrate, I've heard too many stories of people just throwing bowfin on the bank or shooting gar just to get rid of them. I'm not really the type to get angry over people killing animals. I fish myself, snakeheads have taken over the lake I've fished since I was 3 and I can't be happier because the bass fishing there has always been horrible and it just gives me an opportunity to consistently catch something big. People overfished the bluegill and the park has finally resorted to stocking. The green sunfish do green sunfish things and take over the shallows. All the other sunfish in there were already too rare for conventional fishermen to find so their populations have stayed the same.
I also don't like forcing my opinions/mentality onto people but this is an exception. Things like bowfin and gar are native, nature happens. Fish for gar while they move into your crappie spot for spawning. There is no excuse. You like how crappie fight? Gar fight harder. You like the patience and skill required for getting crappie to bite and setting the hook on one? Same with gar. Don't like how easy it is to find gar? Suck it up and enjoy the treat of being there for the spawn while you can easily find and catch them by the dozen. Don't like the fact that you can't eat gar? You don't need to eat every fish you catch. Hooks won't hurt them. They've made it a couple hundred million years unchanged through worse.
Same logic and translations apply to bass and bowfin.
I know not a lot of people will see this but it gives me a bit more peace of mind knowing there's the potential for some to.
Oh yeah, and this

Like things like bowfin that allegedly "eat bass" or gar that eat crappie as they migrate, I've heard too many stories of people just throwing bowfin on the bank or shooting gar just to get rid of them. I'm not really the type to get angry over people killing animals. I fish myself, snakeheads have taken over the lake I've fished since I was 3 and I can't be happier because the bass fishing there has always been horrible and it just gives me an opportunity to consistently catch something big. People overfished the bluegill and the park has finally resorted to stocking. The green sunfish do green sunfish things and take over the shallows. All the other sunfish in there were already too rare for conventional fishermen to find so their populations have stayed the same.
I also don't like forcing my opinions/mentality onto people but this is an exception. Things like bowfin and gar are native, nature happens. Fish for gar while they move into your crappie spot for spawning. There is no excuse. You like how crappie fight? Gar fight harder. You like the patience and skill required for getting crappie to bite and setting the hook on one? Same with gar. Don't like how easy it is to find gar? Suck it up and enjoy the treat of being there for the spawn while you can easily find and catch them by the dozen. Don't like the fact that you can't eat gar? You don't need to eat every fish you catch. Hooks won't hurt them. They've made it a couple hundred million years unchanged through worse.
Same logic and translations apply to bass and bowfin.
I know not a lot of people will see this but it gives me a bit more peace of mind knowing there's the potential for some to.
Oh yeah, and this
