Yep! Payback is a b*tch!
And brown marmorated stinkbug.
Go gars!!!
I have seen snakehead fish.
I love these Chinese fire drills. The same as their dumbass lockdowns. What idiots. I thought The Han were supposed to be hi-IQ. Bring back Mao-Tse-Tung! He knew how to run a country.
Awwww, my sympathy is zero.
The list of what they have sent our way via illegal pet trading and improperly flushing their bilges near shore is too long to post!
I caught gar all the time in Texas. Not particularly tasty. I always throw them back in the water. In my opinion they are brilliant beautiful creatures. Just doing what they do. Hence why I debarb all my hooks.
A massive threat that can be neutralized simply by not eating the eggs.
Had no idea the eggs are toxic, never heard that before.
Citrus greening disease...green ash borer too, I think. Chestnut disease...
Don’t forget Asian carp.
Ahhh....remember going to Alton IL to do some fishing with family when my daughter was about five. Her grandpa set her up with a fishing pole and she sat quietly on the dock. A few minutes later we hear a blood curdling scream. She threw the fishing pole in the river and ran up the dock. Grandpa, not wanting to lose a good pole, jumped in to save it. On the other end was a snapping two foot gar. He took a fishing knife and cut off the head. Said you never cut ‘em lose because of all the fish they destroy. 40 years later we still tease her about her fishing skills.
Almost forgot bubonic plague. Twice.
Used to catch them on the Brazos as a kid. Steel leader with 6-10” frayed nylon rope. Some came in like a waterlogged branch, some fought like a marlin.
Not to mention Wuhan Flu
Catch ‘em all the time on Guadalupe river near Tivoli TX.
I clean and eat anything between 3’ and 6’.
It is like a solid blackstrap. Cut into 1” steaks, roll in mustard, marinade over night then roll into fresh ground coarse corn meal after salt, pepper and garlic. It is a coarse meat fish like ling.
But I never eat the eggs like the zipper heads do.
Good.
***Normally found in North and Central America and believed to have entered China through the exotic pet trade,****
Payback for all those exotic Asian jumping carp and swamp eels and other weird fish they have dropped in American lakes.