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Originally Posted by AndyS
My guide on the Upper Delaware who fishes for trout in the cooler months and smallmouth in the summer months has been posting less and less fish photos lately. He is posting bald eagle and river photos, I wonder why that is, coincidence ??
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So is everyone to understand your basing a part of your argument on the fact that the guide you use in the upper Delaware caught one snakehead in the upper Delaware so that in itself means snakeheads caused a major decline in the smallmouth and trout population? C'mon, you can't be serious making a statement like that.
Next we'll be talking about flatheads again where there's no proof whatsoever they threaten existing population.....none. F&G is against anything they don't stock or endorse themselves because it threatens their existence and I'd bet in some way how money is allocated to fish they stock and possibly even state funding. Remember, Virginia F&G is the group and state that initially introduced blue catfish in the 70's for recreational angling opportunities. But now we're supposed to blindly listen to the same agency in every state that created that absolute mess in Va. and is spreading.
If snakeheads are a threat to the Delaware, for the same reason we should kill all muskies and stripers in the Delaware as I guarantee they kill more resident non invasive fish than flatheads and snakeheads combined. Do you support that because I don't? There's a natural food chain if we simply let nature take it's course and stop &^*%$@! with it. Unless there's absolute proof that a species is creating havoc in a system, leave it alone. Blue catfish fall into that category and need to be dealt with as there's sufficient proof they not only kill everything, their voracious appetite is actually in large part responsible for killing an entire ecosystem in the Chesapeake and having negative impacts on many other stocks including stripers, redfish, blue claw crabs etc.
