D&R walleye catch/ D&R snakehead question

[deaone123]

Had a hour to kill waiting to pickup a friend from work gave the D&R canal and managed 1 walleye keeping simple with a little jig.
- I use my headlamp alot at night to look into the water (bad habit) spotted a snakehead was about 6inches long, i know witness accounts are never realiable but i checked this thing out for a good ten minutes and im 100% sure it was. A snake head and was fearless didnt move even tried to entice with my jig and nothing fish gave zero f***s.

[thmyorke1]

Nice walleye.

I believe you that you saw a snakehead but I'm still confused why I haven't seen a report of any catches in there.

[Eskimo]

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It's plausible. The D&R Canal connects to the Delaware River, so it's theoretically accessible by Snakeheads and Flathead Catfish - which is not necessarily a bad thing. It's another species for sportsmen to enjoy.


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[Jigman13]

They get flatheads in the canal. Big m-effers too.

[AndyS]

Dear Eskimo: PLEASE read about how INVASIVE species displace other fish.
Example: You are living in your home and all your aunts, uncles, in-laws, and other distant family members move in. They aren't going to eat you, BUT will leave you very little food and really no place to live in the cramped living conditions, so what do you do, you move out. Now all these people that moved into your home start making babies by the thousands. You move further away.
This is how invasive species work. PLEASE DO NOT say this is a good thing, unless your grand-children want to catch nothing but Flatheads and Snakeheads.

[thmyorke1]

For supporting invasives, I get the appeal of flatheads; they get big, probably bigger than any of our introduced/native cats. Snakeheads however i dont get. Nothing special about them compared to the species we already have. Let the other species, native and the ones we purposely introduced, grow.

I have 0 experience with catching snakeheads tho. So maybe im missing something.

No-brainer to follow our many state biologists' suggestions.

[Chrisper4694]

nature always finds a way...

plenty of better fisheries in the state for every fish in the Delaware anyway imo. so now you have a snakehead and flathead fishery to increase the variety haha.

honestly, it's an unstoppable force at this point anyway so it's a moot point, but i, for one, don't mind it. sorry andy.

[deaone123]

Im no fish expert by any means and dont mind new species but snakesheads are some nasty fish they tolerate piss poor water quality and a few bad spawning seasons for other fish they thrive to easy, on top of not being predators but im preety sure these fish kill not even to just eat but for the thrill of it but regardless nature has its ways to regulate and NJ does a half decent job at least for its freshwater fisheries,
- i just threw the info out there but where i was fishing without spot burning was the complete opposite end away from the delware river

[AndyS]

It's New Jersey, no such thing as spot burning. I like the input and feedback, thank you.

[FASTEDDIE29]

Nice Walleye dude!!! Lots them in the area if you know where to look.