Fish Id Of The Day

[WakenLake]

Too bad MDC isnt giving out gift certs for invasive non native species.

[Muddler4]

Sing along

"We’ve got trouble, oh we got trouble,

Right here in River City!

With a capital "T"

That rhymes with "P"

And that stands for……Pacu."

Just kidding of course.

I may not hear anything back from MDC. Apparently these are reported caught all over the country and several are reported every year in MO. I found a newspaper article in which one was caught in Lake St. Louis last year. Pacu this far north are assumed to be aquarium releases only. Water temps below 40 are too cold for survival. Although I guess in a spring fed lake they might make through the winter and populate (if a breeding pair existed).

Info from River Monsters here.

http://animal.discovery.com/fish/river-monsters/red-bellied-pacu.html

[Geoff]

I seen one about 20 pounds come out of the Meremec in Valley Park many years ago. People just dump em in there, you can buy one at petsmart for under 5 bucks.

[Addicted to Creeks]

saw a picture today of a small bull shark someone caught on the Mississippi today, if there is a news article up in the next few days ill make a separate post

[Tim Smith]

They are known as nut-crunchers (i.e. they will crunch your nuts off and cause massive bleeding which has been documented to lead to death) ... at least that is what was said River Monsters.

Strange stuff.

Yeah. Jeremy was trying to pawn off Mongolian salmon as man killers recently. That guy could make goldfish into man eaters.

It won't last the winter.

[OzarkFishman]

I agree Tim, the shows are getting a tad ridiculus. I did hear about those bigteeth, unicorn goldfish in Belizeacongoeastafriganistan ...

Now that is crazy stuff .... wait, Pacu ... back to the thread ...