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Post by rocfish on Aug 10, 2010 0:24:07 GMT -4
Was watching "River Monsters" tonight on the Animal Planet channel, and the guy was catching bullseye snakehead from Asia in canals in southern Florida. He was casting artificials on a baitcaster, and darned all if it didn't look like a Rapala Long Cast Minnow. It got me wondering; How many of you have accidentally caught an exotic introduced fish in your home waters on your Rapalas? I have not, but in the part of the country where I live there is a big problem with illegally introduced Asian Silver Carp, but they are filter feeders, so not much chance of hooking one on a Rapala to the best of my knowledge.  |
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Post by Tom on Aug 10, 2010 8:45:36 GMT -4
River monsters is good, i have watched a lot of em. I saw a good 1 the other day, he was catching alligator gar in Texas.
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Post by Tom on Aug 10, 2010 8:46:59 GMT -4
And i saw a program on those silver carp. They are breeding like hell and have breeched a fish barrier and entered the great lakes so i here???
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Post by rocfish on Aug 10, 2010 9:52:58 GMT -4
Well, the various DNR of the states involved have confirmed they are in the tributaries, but so far there are no confirmed reports of them in the great lakes themselves. The efforts to contain them though have not been very successful, it's unfortunate, but it is probably only a matter of time.  |
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Post by Tom on Aug 10, 2010 17:16:40 GMT -4
i don't know if they are in there, but you woulda thought the pike and muskies would keep a control on the numbers if they do get in. If not, they wanna stock the lakes full of predators to crunch down on the carp. When the carp have been eaten, the numbers of pike and muskies will die down too.
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Post by muskiehunter on Aug 11, 2010 18:42:11 GMT -4
Well, the various DNR of the states involved have confirmed they are in the tributaries, but so far there are no confirmed reports of them in the great lakes themselves. The efforts to contain them though have not been very successful, it's unfortunate, but it is probably only a matter of time. Ya that is sad but true.All over money to boot.Out government should put their foot down and close the locks,but as always they are to busy worrying if they are PC and not offending someone. I live on Green Bay which is part of Lake Michigan and the perch fishing used to be awesome years ago.Now we catch more Gobies then perch  |
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Post by fishing_in_israel on Aug 11, 2010 21:40:33 GMT -4
Well, the various DNR of the states involved have confirmed they are in the tributaries, but so far there are no confirmed reports of them in the great lakes themselves. The efforts to contain them though have not been very successful, it's unfortunate, but it is probably only a matter of time. Ya that is sad but true.All over money to boot.Out government should put their foot down and close the locks,but as always they are to busy worrying if they are PC and not offending someone. I live on Green Bay which is part of Lake Michigan and the perch fishing used to be awesome years ago.Now we catch more Gobies then perch It's not just in the States that government makes bad [PC] decisions. I just finished reading the book 'cod' by Mark Kurlansky. It is subtitled 'A Biography of the Fish That Changed the World'. It gives the history of cod fishing and how North America was founded on cod fishing and also how governments were too slow and too late to wake up to overfishing. Now the cod have gone. |
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Post by walter on Aug 26, 2010 19:27:18 GMT -4
more than 50% of species here in my area are exotic. carps were introduced in roman age, bullheads and bass a century ago... northern pikes (we had "local" italic pikes), crucian carps, breams, asps, pikeperchs, sunfishes, wels catfishes, louisiana crayfish are all recent exotic species.
now, due to pollution, if you go fishing around here you can catch only a few species, and most of them are exotic.
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Post by Fishooked on Aug 27, 2010 8:18:22 GMT -4
Never ever, at least not yet.
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Post by eloosecannon on Aug 27, 2010 20:29:17 GMT -4
I love that show. Haven't caught any exotics yet, but it would be kinda cool.
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Post by shadrap712 on Aug 28, 2010 3:13:30 GMT -4
Golbies suck!!!! The last time I was on Bay de Noc whenever your crawler got close to bottom you had 1. I was running a 3 hook spinner crawler combo and many times you would catch 2-3 of those little bastards at a time!!!! I guess the next time I go I will have to take a flat of crawlers for the Golbies and 1 for the walleyes. Well, the various DNR of the states involved have confirmed they are in the tributaries, but so far there are no confirmed reports of them in the great lakes themselves. The efforts to contain them though have not been very successful, it's unfortunate, but it is probably only a matter of time. Ya that is sad but true.All over money to boot.Out government should put their foot down and close the locks,but as always they are to busy worrying if they are PC and not offending someone. I live on Green Bay which is part of Lake Michigan and the perch fishing used to be awesome years ago. Now we catch more Gobies then perch |
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Post by cobra on Sept 17, 2011 19:57:23 GMT -4
Has any of yous ever fished Peacock Bass? I fish them all the time down here, and a 5lb. P will pull a 10lb Bass inside out. They fight like my other favorite fis the Snook.
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Post by bulldog21 on Sept 25, 2011 16:31:17 GMT -4
I have had plenty of alligator gar and the needle nose gar hit my Rapalas. Mainly it is DTs and Shad Raps. You rarely hook the needle nose gars becuase their mouth is pretty much solid teeth. They would have to swallow it. On the other hand, alligator gar get so large that they could totally inhale a SSR-14. But once they hit a wooden lure....all you have left is a very religious lure...(holey)  Posted this a while back but it's a pretty cool exotic. It came out of a local river about 15 min away from my house.  |
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Post by walter on Dec 2, 2011 17:50:11 GMT -4
what is that fish? |
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Post by omigosh on Dec 2, 2011 17:59:08 GMT -4
I don't know how to spell it correctly but I think it is a pleocostomus. It is a tropical fish commonly held in aquariums as an alge eater. I put one in my koi pond and it got big quick. As soon as it turned cool outside it bit the dust.
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Post by walter on Dec 2, 2011 18:11:15 GMT -4
thanks, now i understand... i didn't think they could grow so much!!!
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Post by riverrat on Dec 2, 2011 22:03:36 GMT -4
In Michigan we have all kinds of exotics or introduced species. Technically the rainbows, browns, kings, coho's and Atlantic salmon were all introduced species so yes I have caught all kinds on Rapala's.
I have snagged a few gobies and the occasional white perch trolling original floaters for walleye.
Do Rusty Crayfish count?
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Post by walter on Dec 23, 2011 20:05:56 GMT -4
louisiana crayfish... another exotic species, which is devastating italy's waters.
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Post by bulldog21 on Jan 5, 2012 19:52:58 GMT -4
I caught the pleocostomus in a net. Truthfully I thought it was a big catfish so I went after it and trapped it up under a rock. The only way out from under the rock was in my net. = )
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Post by happyshad on Jan 5, 2012 22:03:09 GMT -4
Man - that thing is one creepy critter! What did you do with it?
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Post by bulldog21 on Jan 5, 2012 23:19:32 GMT -4
We didn't put it back. Found out a few months ago that a kid a little younger than me caught one that was right around 20inches. He sent it in to the Texas Parks and Wildlife and they gave him a $10,000 scholarship since it was the biggest one recorded. I kick myself now becuase mine was pushing 24inches....  |
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