Snakeheads! (Just putting this out there)

• Apr 24, 2011

• #1

TBass

Senior Member

Not sure if anyone has seen them, or if it's news to anyone or not, but I shot a snakehead in the Chattahoochee tonight. It was a good 6-7 lb fish. Pretty nasty dude! I know in some places people are keeping their eyes open for them so I can confirm them up to at least the Columbus, GA area.

 

• Apr 25, 2011

• #2

7 point

Senior Member

if you see one kill it they will destory your fish population.

 

• Apr 25, 2011

• #3

Michael

Senior Member

Was probably a bowfin and not a snakehead.

 

• Apr 25, 2011

• #4

dawg2

AWOL ADMINISTRATOR

Michael said:

Was probably a bowfin and not a snakehead.

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Probably.

Any pics?

 

• Apr 25, 2011

• #5

TBass

Senior Member

I got pics. I know bowfins....this wasn't a bowfin. Why is this site not letting me post pics though.....?

 

• Apr 25, 2011

• #6

TBass

Senior Member

I put pics in my album on my profile.

 

• Apr 25, 2011

• #7

dawg2

AWOL ADMINISTRATOR

TBass said:

I put pics in my album on my profile.

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It's a bowfin. Snakeheads have a long anal fin like the dorsal fin.

Here is a good reference:

 

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• Apr 25, 2011

• #8

fishndinty

Senior Member

dawg2 said:

It's a bowfin

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lol

 

• Apr 25, 2011

• #9

TBass

Senior Member

Great! See! My immediate thought was "bowfin" but I was with a self-proclaimed "snakehead expert" that was showing me that it was a snakehead.......sigh......! I guess I didn't do my part to control the snakehead problem after all. Sorry guys! False alarm....

 

• Apr 25, 2011

• #10

dawg2

AWOL ADMINISTRATOR

TBass said:

Great! See! My immediate thought was "bowfin" but I was with a self-proclaimed "snakehead expert" that was showing me that it was a snakehead.......sigh......! I guess I didn't do my part to control the snakehead problem after all. Sorry guys! False alarm....

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They look similar. I am glad it was a bowfin and not the other.

 

• Apr 25, 2011

• #11

Hut2

Senior Member

bowfin?

Glad it wasn't a snake head too.

 

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• Apr 25, 2011

• #12

TBass

Senior Member

I am too! We have very few bowfins where I moved from and the arrival of snakeheads is way out, so I'm still trying to get used to all these new species. The few bowfins I have seen in my life were almost white. I know the species I'm NOT supposed to stick an arrow through, everything else is always debatable as far as what kind of "sucker" or "fin" or "head" it is. I know my gar, but these other crazy species y'all have down here in the south is taking some getting used to! Lol! You never know what you'll see under the lights at midnight around here!

 

• Apr 25, 2011

• #13

bullardsls1

Senior Member

Yeah it was a lil freeky the first time I killed a bow fin myself

 

• Jun 13, 2011

• #14

yellowhammer73

Senior Member

you ate a bowfin?!?! was it good?

 

• Jun 13, 2011

• #15

TBass

Senior Member

Who ate a bowfin......????? Did I miss that post?

 

• Jun 13, 2011

• #16

fish hawk

Bass Master

Did you lip it???I like the spot on their tail,it's cool lookin!!!In the days of my youth we usta fish this small creek outside of Norman Park,it was loaded with big mudfish and big gar too.

 

• Jun 13, 2011

• #17

j_seph

Senior Member

yellowhammer73 said:

you ate a bowfin?!?! was it good?

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TBass said:

Who ate a bowfin......????? Did I miss that post?

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Caught one at Santee and through it back. We were told later that it is a good eating fish and lot's of folks loved em.

 

• Jun 13, 2011

• #18

Nicodemus

The Recluse

Staff member

I`m gonna have to be mighty hungry to eat a blackfish.

 

• Jun 13, 2011

• #19

S

smessler34

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next time yall catch one .....poke his eyes out and turn him loose so he can go back and tell all his buddies he just cant "see" living here ! and they will all pack up and move on lol!.........down here they are called mudfish. i caught one last year on a flyrod that was 29 inches! them jokers can pull! ...anyway the game and fish fellas ask us to throw em on the bank and let the buzzards eat em because they are not native and are a sevear threat to the "gamefish" population

 

• Jun 15, 2011

• #20

TBass

Senior Member

smessler34 said:

next time yall catch one .....poke his eyes out and turn him loose so he can go back and tell all his buddies he just cant "see" living here ! and they will all pack up and move on lol!.........down here they are called mudfish. i caught one last year on a flyrod that was 29 inches! them jokers can pull! ...anyway the game and fish fellas ask us to throw em on the bank and let the buzzards eat em because they are not native and are a sevear threat to the "gamefish" population

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Edited to Remove Profanity ----Edited to Remove Profanity ----Edited to Remove Profanity ----Edited to Remove Profanity ----!!!! Nice....! I'm seeing them quite often just bowfishing from the banks. I can't imagine how many I'd see if I were on a boat! The hooch must be loaded with 'em!