Posted on 07/14/2014 9:01:39 PM PDT by Extremely Extreme Extremist
HARRISON TOWNSHIP, Mich. - The Michigan Department of Natural Resources confirms a metro Detroit woman caught a Pacu fish, a South American relative of the Piranha, in an area lake last week.
Tom and Holley Luft were fishing at Lake St. Clair on July 9 when Holley said she caught the 14-inch Pacu.
At the time she said they weren't sure what it was and thought it sort of looked like a Blue Gill. However, it wasn't until they got the fish under a better light that they saw the teeth. That's when Tom thought it was a piranha.
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In just a few short decades since those idyllic days of my youth in the 1960s, we have now added meat eating piranha, specialty food/testicle eating Pacu, kamikaze leaping Asian carp, Africanized killer honey bees and snakes as long as my pickup pulling a u-haul trailer in the South and more to go with the kudzu and the list keeps growing!
Understand the fish is nicknamed the “Monica”.
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