Posted on 07/11/2023 12:03:44 PM PDT by 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.
This is a non-native fish which was introduced to our waters by Chinese seeking to infect our waterways with them to catch for food. They are quite voracious and a danger to our native species.
I sense a Hollywood movie! Make them aggressive and ferocious attackers like piranhas because of so-called environmental damage or vaccine residue which a Fauci-like bureaucrat covers up after they start attacking.
Agreed. They can walk on land for short periods and get into new waterways. No predators. A true menace.
It is time to import the predators of snakehead fish.
Gotta love a good fish story!
“It is time to import the predators of snakehead fish.”
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We’re already doing it. It’s the Biden immigration policy.
That would be Chinese illegals.
So what. I caught a 30 lb. carp not long ago.
Yup. They need to be killed.
The fish I mean.
They are supposed to be a very good food fish. Never caught one and have not seen them in the market, so I can’t conform it.
Seize the carp!
Must ...not....make....James....Carville....joke.....must..... resist......
Oh I’m too late.....🤣🤣🤣
I think the Sci-fi channel made a movie years ago called "Snakehead Terror".
I always thought of Carville as a criminal alien hiding out on Earth.
Little Hunting Creek: Snakehead Central. A long night with the bows and the lights out can net up $4000 in sales to the fancy restaurants in New York. One cooler full of cold snakeheads might be worth more than its weight in... Well something valuable!
That’s how you wind up being Australia. Whatever eats the snakeheads will be more of a problem after they run out of snakeheads.
He caught Nancy Pelosi? She came out of the Italian “ghetto” of East Baltimore, on the same street as my mother was born - Albemarle, but her section didn’t allow Jews or other ethnic or races inside except to shop or eat there.
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