Maryland man reels in massive 21-pound northern snakehead

UPI ^ | JULY 7, 2023 / 4:42 PM | By Ben Hooper

[Red Badger]

Damien Cook broke a Maryland state record when he reeled in a 21-pound northern snakehead. Photo courtesy of the Maryland Department of Natural Resources

July 7 (UPI) -- A Maryland angler broke a state record when he reeled in a northern snakehead that weighed in at a whopping 21 pounds.

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources said Damien Cook of Rhodesville was fishing from his kayak in a Dorchester County river when he hooked the invasive fish.

"Honestly, I thought it was just your average 30-inch snakehead when I first hooked the fish," Cook told DNR officials. "It pulled hard but I had the advantage of it being close and I got it in the net pretty quickly."

Cook took the fish to be weighed on a certified scale at Kool Ice Seafood in Cambridge. The 21-pound fish broke the record of 19.9 pounds, set by angler Andrew D. Fox in 2018.

[EinNYC]

Yup. They need to be killed. The fish I mean.

The Chinese have polluted their country to the extreme. They couldn't give a darn about ecology. They don't care about the misery they inflict on people, like they're gonna give half a darn about the plants and animals in their land. So you have to love how they import animals THEY like to eat to our country and just release them without any regard whatsoever what such a release will do to OUR habitats. It's like they feel like they own the joint already.

It would be like you sitting at home with your family watching TV when there's a knock at the door. You open the door and a bunch of Chinese walk in. They take measurements, bring in stuff, take your dog to the pound, and toss your stuff out the window while you stand there and sputter indignantly. Then they toss you and your family into the yard and close the door. Polluting our waterways with a voracious fish that gobbles up our native species without having asked anyone whether they could would be along the above lines!