Anyone Else catch any snakeheads? My buddies and I caught quite a few yesterday. 3 adults and probably netted 1000 babies. None made it back into the lake though.

 

good eating.....

What the he!! is that, never saw one before. Looks like a fish and an eel got together and made whoopie

What the he!! is that, never saw one before. Looks like a fish and an eel got together and made whoopie

An import from Asia that has become a top predator in rivers and streams in the US since being introduced several years ago, now eating through several indigenous fish species,frogs and some say rats.Ironically they offer some firm, white,flaky flesh that even stands up to a grill.

Thanks, they are nasty looking for sure! I have not done any fresh water fishing since I was a kid so I am totally out of the loop

I'm buddies with the game warden and I send him the pics. I have 2 adults and about 1000 babies. I wanted him to tell him coworkers I had em before I killed em. Just incase for any reason they wanted em. We did behead 1 adult. If he gives the go ahead the adults will be dinner and my caribe piranha will be eating baby snakeheads for a while. I killed a bunch of babies but decided to hold off til I got word.

 

 

 

Gold fish pond is now a snakehead pond

 

 

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That bucket was 1 net full

Anyone Else catch any snakeheads? My buddies and I caught quite a few yesterday. 3 adults and probably netted 1000 babies. None made it back into the lake though.

 

 

 

Good job netting the babies. Did you report them to NJ DEP

Oh no!!! Those things are in NJ?! Where did you catch them? Those things are bad news.

Anyone Else catch any snakeheads? My buddies and I caught quite a few yesterday. 3 adults and probably netted 1000 babies. None made it back into the lake though.

 

 

We get them in the Salem Canal and now in the tributaries off the Delaware. Bad news...those things destroy everything. None ever should make it back alive....nice work!

Salem canal? I live in carneys point, you?

How are they to catch? put up a good fight? They look like they have teeth........

Is it true they can survive short periods of time out of water and wiggle there way to other bodies of water?

 

Those things are brutal.

Is it true they can survive short periods of time out of water and wiggle there way to other bodies of water?

 

Those things are brutal.

They are proported to be able breath air and live out of water for up to 5 days just a long as they are in a wet environment. Also to be able to move on land because of their tough scales and strong fins.

They hit hard and and very strong. Yes they have teeth

there is some great bass fishing in salem as a kid my dad and i would go down there and catch massive bass

Yes there are

Good Job killing them off.... Bad news for NJ fishing when they hit full steam.

Too bad native fish can't get carry permits...

 

Its been a loosing battle trying to rid infected bodies of water of these suckers.

I had them there snakeheads in my fish tank years ago. Them things eat too much. Pet stores should give them away for free and make all their money selling goldfish to feed to them.

These things are bad news, thankfully I have not encountered any yet but I was told they are in Assunpink.

Salem canal? I live in carneys point, you?

 

I live in Audubon - fish there alot and my friend has 30 acres that backs to Game Creek.

SciFi channel made a cheesy movie on Snakeheads a few years ago. What is to happen to our waterways between the Snakehead and the Asian carp?

Snake heads are indeed bad. America is loaded with species from all over the world.

Rats are not native to the USA and neither are the most common (now) brown sparrow.

They are both gifts from Europe.Snakeheads will change our ecosystem. From what I've been told on a TV show they were introduced in our rivers and lakes in large numbers by people wanting the same type fish to eat as were found in the native lands and as old pets dumped.

Oddly enough comming home from the shore today I noticed a nice stand of bamboo growing on the side of the GSP.This is another invasive plant that is released via homeowners planting a tiki bar!!! Bamboo propagates via runners so when planting it please place a boarder around it at least 2 feet deep. And snakeheads are now here to stay but please kill all you catch !!!

Fragmites are another non native vegitation found in our wetlands..

have not caught any yet but know it will be any time now. I know they wont make it back in the water.

Just for an update. They are all dead. Fish and game didn't want em. However my piranha did.

Hoorah

Snakehead fishing heating up in nj. A lot of em and big ones are being caught. I'm gonna head out in the next couple days for em.

How do you catch those things?

Buzz baits, chatter baits, spinners, rattle traps. It's a lot like bass and pickerel Fishing.