Pacemaker Fishing Forum

I read somewhere that one of those spotlighting boats was checked by DNR and was found to be guiding without proper gear or licenses. Maybe if DNR could be convinced to keep tabs on them there wouldn't be so many. It's not likely that MD will put a creel limit when they still want them eradicated.

So do you envision that they will become as big as LGMouth in sport fishing or will they be always be the cause to rid the earth of.

Capt Mike

Pacemaker wrote:

I love snakies.....

I don't like killing fish (carp, gar, snakie) just for the heck of it. If ya kill it, eat it!

You bet Ernie!  I hate trophy hunters/fishers......kill what you eat and no more.  I have yet to catch a NSH, but from the reports everyone posts....they get big fast and they fight a good fight.  I'm told they eat very good....the local high end restaurants are cashing in on it, so where are they sourcing their fish from?  I recall there was a price tag on the fish when this whole thing first came out, but that ended quickly.  Guiding for the NSH must be where it happens.  I have friends from all over the country that are asking about it (wishing they could get one) and I'm sure there are people who would fly in to be guided.  All it takes is a travel channel show like Bizarre Foods to show the host bow fishing for NSH on the Potomac!

Osprey wrote:

I'm counting on you this Sunday.

The pressure is on!

You guys are starting to sound like the Amphib "Duck" tour bus...lol

Last edited by backtofuturetoyota (Jul-02-13 11:28AM)

I don't think they should have creel limits. Sporting or not, they're still an invasive species. It's hard to believe that we're discussing protecting them, when just a couple years ago people were still afraid they would wipe out all of our native fish and eat our pets

backtofuturetoyota wrote:

All it takes is a travel channel show like Bizarre Foods to show the host bow fishing for NSH on the Potomac!

I watched that episode last night. Those blackened snakehead sandwiches looked amazing.

Silver carp in the Midwest are a nuisance because they can actually hurt someone while cruising down the river....and I don't think they are tasty.

I  have talked to John Odenkirk (VA State Biologist) on numerous occasions as to what he finds in the NSH belly when he studies them. They are not eating bass normally. Yes, they do compete for food.

While he can't definitively say they are going to hurt the biomass, the fact remains that they are here. If we wipe them out, I will have to fish further to get some filets. My sons will testify that they like NSH as much or better than most other fish.

I talked to a spotlighter this Sunday and he now has a Seafood Sellers License and can make 1500.00 a night. Well not since two years ago he said.
He makes about 200 bucks a night now selling his catch to a fish monger in Balto. He also said that he will not shoot carp or gar.

Shawn Kimbro said in a post that killing carp and gar with bow was like shooting robins off the bird feeder. At some point in your life you grow up.

Capt Mike

captmikestarrett wrote:

Shawn Kimbro said in a post that killing carp and gar with bow was like shooting robins off the bird feeder. At some point in your life you grow up.

Back when I was a teenager I was back in the mid-west visiting family and I went out bowfishing with some relatives in the flooded cornfields. The first few carp were fun to stalk and shoot, but after that meh.... At the end of the day, looking at the devastation didn't leave me with the warm and fuzzy feeling. A few of them were taken back home to be tilled into the garden. But the rest were just tossed up in the woods. I guess worms have to eat too.

I have mixed feelings on the snakeheads. I would LOVE to catch one. But I also don't think they belong in our waters. But they are here to stay until the next ice age. Or until we import some super freshwater shark that only eats snakeheads to kill them off and then import something else to kill off the sharks....

There Was An Old Woman
There was an old woman who swallowed a fly,
I don't know why she swallowed a fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a bird,
How absurd! to swallow a bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.



And the cycle of Man's dominance over nature will surely be the death of him..

Capt Mike

I think the snakehead will do fine w/o a limit.  They multiply like no other fish in our waters and have few if any predators.  I think maybe some areas are getting pressured more than others and the fish are adapting to the pressure.

captmikestarrett wrote:

There Was An Old Woman
There was an old woman who swallowed a fly,
I don't know why she swallowed a fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.

There was an old woman who swallowed a bird,
How absurd! to swallow a bird,
She swallowed the bird to catch the spider,
That wriggled and jiggled and tickled inside her,
She swallowed the spider to catch the fly,
I don't know why she swallowed the fly,
Perhaps she'll die.



And the cycle of Man's dominance over nature will surely be the death of him..

Capt Mike

Hats off to you Captain Mike. You sir are one of a kind and you have my support