Freakish fish with monstrous appetite causes fear in Maryland (Frankenfish walks; eats anything)

AZCentral.com ^ | 6.26.02

[mhking]

Dreaded by fish biologists, it is capable of clearing out a pond of all living creatures and then wriggling on to new hunting grounds on its belly and fins.

Even worse, the fisherman - perhaps thinking it was a rare native species - released it.

[galt-jw]

try half sticks of dynamite. that should do it.

[SGCOS]

I haven't read a thread that is making me laugh as much as this one. Too funny!

[Mamzelle]

re: Carville)))

LOL til I cried. Serpenthead on the loose !!!This thread is probably one of the funniest ever on FR.

[ReaganIsRight]

I've seen sea lampreys spawning in freshwater streams while trout fishing. Not a pretty site, they were grabbing rocks and making a spawning bed.

[ReaganIsRight]

Walking Catfish was my first guess too. Are they the same fish? I thought the Walking Catfish was native and was a little surprised by the snakehead. I'm not familiar with them, until now.

I read about the Walking Catfish somewhere other than Nat Geo.

[TheLurkerX]

No, that would have been @ssheads.

[varon]

There are 25 kinds of snakehead fish,………
"If you catch it, kill it," said Lunsford. "It's not a 'dead or alive' thing - we want it dead."

Kill it??? For goodness sake, bring over all 25 kinds and plenty of them. We need diversity, I tell ya ;-)

[Darksheare]

Carville is an alien! Those pics prove it! Wasn't it on some tabloid thing not too long ago? Umm... I should probably get real quiet now...

[PsyOp]

I stand corrected. Calling Carvill a snakehead is a slander against snakeheads.

Ugly fish ping!

[NotJustAnotherPrettyFace]

Bwahahahahahaha! That was a good one!

[timestax]

yikes!!

[scholar]

As I recall the Walking Catfish was from Asia. I think I read about it in National Audubon. I don't recall how it got to Florida.

[SGCOS]

... I don't recall how it got to Florida.

Swam?

[weegee]

I don't know as it isn't easy to "walk" from Asia to Florida ;^P

[gwynapnudd]

OK - pound for pound - I'll put my money on a Northern Pike against a Snakehead. Any takers?

[gwynapnudd]

OK - pound for pound - I'll put my money on a Northern Pike against a Snakehead. Any takers?

[mv1]

(...walks; eats anything)

Hey leave the in-laws out of this

[Shermy]

Another was found:

Bounty On Head Of Predatory Fish - Exotic Fish Caught in Crofton Pond

[FormerLurker]

You know, some might find it a bit perculiar that these fish wipe out all the native fish, and that they come from China.

Some might even say that this is a ploy to make us even more dependent upon foreign lands for our daily substinence.