Aces High Bulletin Board
General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: SirLoin on July 25, 2002, 07:26:04 AM
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The recent decision of the Enviromentalist Board to poison lakes suspected of containing the Snakehead fish is wrong!...It is another example of "American Protectionism",that is not allowing the import of something that is vastly superior to anything found in the States.I ask you what is so wrong with this creature?
Attractive Features....
1:Can grow up to 3 feet in length...Not quite as long or big in girth as a Muskie but apparently pound for pound it puts up one hell of a fight when hooked.
2:Snakehead Filets...Apparently it is delicacy..It's buttery fried in flour taste puts all other fish to shame...Also it's not a very boney fish,so your wife can learn how to filet in no time.
3:Easy To Catch...They are so aggressive,they strike at almost anything that moves.So most any lure in your box will do the job.They can be found very deep,in suspended depth or lurking amongst the lilypads on the shoreline.So whatever is your preferred method(trolling,jigs,surface lures),they will accomodate you.
4:Fish Crossings...When it comes late fall they migrate.They can be seen crawling across highways in hordes in search of warmer waters and can survive up to 3 days on land.Imagine the boost to the tourism industry during the migration period.
5:Voracious Appitite...This fish is second to none for it's need to feed.It would feast on undesirables like suckers,carp,catfish..In fact it would wipe them out in no time.No more cursing when your line snaps because you'll know the fish that swam off with your $15 lure probably chewed right through the leader.
6:No Catch Limits...This will happen after the Snakehead has wiped out every other species of fish.
Here is a picture of one of these beautifull creatures.
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I have the solution, SirLoin, we'll catch em all and haul em up there and dump them in YOUR lakes! Sooner or later the cycle will repeat and Canada would ship em to China where they belong.
Masher
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How timely.
Just when our nuclear attack subs are without a mission..
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For Once???:eek:
I am from a community where farmers were choked off from irrigation last summer, and the entire reason was based on lies and disinformation (are these actually two different things?):confused:
The water was held back from an histroric lakebed where "it didn't belong" according to the tree huggers.
Last summer the river was controlled farther away from the ancient ecosystem than if they let the irrigation flow. All this in the name of returning to natural conditions.
I have yet to see meet an environmentalist who would listen to reason without getting all emotional.
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This is the fish that can actually walk from one lake to another?
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Originally posted by AKDejaVu
This is the fish that can actually walk from one lake to another?
Yeah. I gotta say, anything with that has the words "Fish", "Snake Head", and "Walking" attributed to it scares the crap out of me.
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Everybody run.. there's a walking-snake-head-fish on the loose !
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Well hopefully whoever catches one will kill it on the spot. No effing way this thing taste as good as black bass, white bass, striped bass or any other kind of fish that it will eat. Hopefuly the person who put this into our eco system will be punished either financialy or a short stent in jail.
This fish should make Elfie happy because it may damage the sport fishing in America. They irony is that it will damage the industry because this fish has the potential to eat all the sport fish.....
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I'm pretty sure many of the fish we fish for are not native species. And bass will also eat any other fish it can fit into its gullet, that's nothing new. A foreign fish is discovered in a pond and all sorts of experts come out of the woodwork to tell us it's the end of the world.
This thing may be physically capable of surviving 3 days out of water, but it won't, there are too many predators which would chow it down. Foxes, racoons, birds of prey.
Anyway, the word that catches my eye about this fish is 'delicacy'. I think the snakehead should fear us, not the other way around.
ra
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Originally posted by ra
This thing may be physically capable of surviving 3 days out of water, but it won't, there are too many predators which would chow it down. Foxes, racoons, birds of prey.
I'm betting the fish could kick the watermelon out of a fox. I mean it has a snake head for christ's sake...and it walks!!
Now a flying raccon might be able to take it...but a regular ground based one?? Nuh-uh, not without some feet seeking missles at least.
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jesus H! this thing would scare the hell out of me if it walked into my campsite:eek:
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Wonder if we could cross breed the fediddleer with Pirhana?
Originally posted by Wlfgng
Everybody run.. there's a walking-snake-head-fish on the loose !
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Originally posted by Vulcan
Wonder if we could cross breed the fediddleer with Pirhana?
Apparently,after they wipe out every other food source in a pond size body of water...They become very Piranha like in behavior.
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don't know about bass but most of the fish around here are native as native gets.
keep that thing outta' my home waters !!!
shit, I'd be scared to wade in the river with those babies in the water.
lake-placid all over again... which reminds me of my favorite line from that movie...
"Thank you very much, officer Fu**meat!"
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Seems the world would be ok without these things... speaking of which, you guys seen them alligator gar fish they have in arkansas? See one of them alien looking things live outta water on the docks for hours.
lazs
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There is a fish in southern lakes and rivers called the grennell. If the snakehead can wrest control of the home waters away from IT then it is one bad dude! Like the snakehead it has fins that run the length of the body and hand-mangling teeth. It is also extremely strong and voracious. I've seen grennells that weighed five pounds wreck fishing tackle. If he doesn't straighten out your hook and you do manage to land one that large then he is best dehooked with the aid of long needle-nosed pliars. Reminds a friend of mine of a prehistoric monster.
If the snakehead makes it past the grennell, then there is the alligator gar, which is ugly enough to give a shark nightmares.
Oh... and we also have catfish that can go as heavy as 75 to 100 pounds. They will feed on anything, living or dead.
If the EPA and other agencies think the snakehead is a threat to them then it needs to be eradicated. Otherwise, the old swimming hole will never be the same again.
Regards, Shuckins