[Hot Tabasco]

I remember back at the end of the 1950's ( I think it was then) when the DNR poisoned the Boyne River back to Boyne Falls in order to kill the lamphreys. I'd walk the river bank picking up all those dead suckers and putting them in a bucket. They were everywhere!

Of course as a 10 year old kid at the time, I never realized what a problem they were for the then limited fishing industry.........

I also remember seeing almost every trout caught from the river or Lake Charlevoix having a lamphrey attached to it or the wound marks on it.......It was an infestation.

[cripplecreek]

The great lakes states support an enormous sportfishing industry (Something like $10 billion in Michigan alone) so I get pretty agitated with people who think these invasive species aren't an issue.