Snakehead Fish.........

[Stewy]

A savage fish deadlier than a piranha that has killed people has been caught on British shores for the first time.

Panic after 'Franken-fish' that is deadlier than a piranha is caught in Britain | the Daily Mail

[Ukwildlifeo]

Yikes. Ive heard of these guys. Hope we dont have another wels catfish/zander on our hands!

[Stewy]

I expect it was just someone who had it in a tank and it got too big so they stupidly dumped it in the river. I'm sure if they were breeding there would of been more reports of catches as they seem like greedy so and so's.

[naturelover]

nasty looking critter,hope there was only one.

[zan]

hahaha! I love the Daily Mail. I know dumping alien species is potentially a big deal (see the current thread on grey squirrels), but that thing is quite cute

Zan

[m1.carson]

Hi Zan,

Yeah it's loverly, makes you think twice about dangling your little pinky in any river.

Max.

[Meta menardi]

I shall wait till it is confirmed in a more august journal such as the Beano.

[Ukwildlifeo]

Originally Posted by Meta menardi

I shall wait till it is confirmed in a more august journal such as the Beano.

lol. I hadnt noticed it was the Mail. I had wondered why the language was so over the top, and now it is all clear...

[Stewy]

Originally Posted by Meta menardi

I shall wait till it is confirmed in a more august journal such as the Beano.

Me too, having a google it seems they are all at it.......

Indian snakehead fish hooked in UK - Yahoo! News UK

Giant snakehead fish caught in Lincolnshire river » Environment » 24dash.com

I expect the bloke was taking the you know what and never even caught the thing!!!!!

[coasty]

reminds me of the mother in law,,,,

[zan]

I love how anything predatory gets labelled 'the deadliest XXX' immediately, as though looking at the photo might just kill you

[witham]

He was interviewed on Look North last night and had a picture of himself at the riverside holding it, it certainly looked genuine to me, He had been Pike fishing but caught the Snake Head instead, they are hoping it's a one off as obviously someone has released it from a private aquarium as they are illegal in this country, or if there are more than one they don't think they could breed or even survive for too long in the cold water of the Witham, although with it being caught near Lincoln at North Hykham could there be any filtered warmer water from industry being emptied into the river, The worrying thing is they can crawl out of the river and survive for up to 4 days out of water so it could be nipping out for a warm then going back in the water again. We live near the Witham but miles away thank goodness or else I would be a bit worried about letting my dog off for a run incase it came back with one of those things attached to its leg

[epops]

Cant see to many of them being in the river although when i caught me first zander i thought the same thing i wonder what the bloke who caught it thought when he 1st saw it

[Stewy]

Probably that he had caught Coasty's mother in law!

[epops]

Originally Posted by Stewy

Probably that he had caught Coasty's mother in law!

lol or my ex

[Stewy]

Originally Posted by epops

lol or my ex

Haha.......

I hope the BEAST chomped his way through a few signal crays while he was in there. (that's even if they are in the Witham)?

[m1.carson]

Hi,

Googled around for the fish and there's some interesting photo's of them, at least three ft long, very much like a catfish with teeth and pretty stripes, and recipes with warnings about a worm that burrows into your body after you've eaten it raw or undercooked,[sounded like a liver fluke].

One site said it couldn't spawn in fresh water, had to be saltwater, tell that to the USA.

Max.

[Bucknallbear]

Originally Posted by coasty

reminds me of the mother in law,,,,

that's scary because don't they say "if you want to see your wife in 30 years time then look at your mother-in-law"?

[Stewy]

Best call in the lawyers Coasty and start "proceedings".

[solus]

"Panic"?? Panic-mongering, more like!

Much more likely to be a "dumped" ex-pet: let's hope it's not from some recent trend for keeping such creatures which are then "released" when they grow too big/boring. Remember "ninja" turtles?

[jordan,renton]

so that fish killed some one how big is it what is that thing it looks cool but never want to keep it in my tank big teeth is it just the one

[witham]

You can see how someone has perhaps smuggled it into the country if it can survive out of water for so long, lets hope no-ones dumped any Piranas into a waterway or lake anywhere, there's some private fishing lakes in our area and years ago after Terrapins were the in thing then people got fed up with them and dumped them, there was supposed to be some mahusive ones in there, but don't know of they're still there or not, they had managed to adapt to the cold etc.

[coasty]

Originally Posted by Bucknallbear

that's scary because don't they say "if you want to see your wife in 30 years time then look at your mother-in-law"?

Nah shes never going to look like that heres one of her in my arms just last year,,,,

[Bucknallbear]

Originally Posted by coasty

Nah shes never going to look like that heres one of her in my arms just last year,,,,

Wow, that's a scary pout, I certainly don't fancy snogging that

Peter

[frasertheking]

i love this story . not only a fish that needs tropical water temp to survive but we are to believe it was not only alive but feeding its just fear mongering . nice trick though . hope this does not lead to the ban of all snake head species some of them are very attractive . the fact it says deadlier than pahrana just shows how little research was done . pahrana are virtually harmless and do not deserve any of there rep