Spotted/Kentucky Food Fish

[Browning Guy]

50 minutes ago, vernon said:

C'mon MO, it's been a while for sure but don't act like you don't remember one of the best hitting outfielders in baseball history!  

Sorry Vernon....he was a short stop not an outfielder.  He played a short time for KU before getting picked up by the Dodgers.  Will be up your way this October going to Midnight Madness. Some of the best memories I can't seem to remember were spent at KU. I think. Thankful/lucky I didn't get any "seed tics" then, or did I, I can't remember. What happened at Watkins Student Health Center stayed at Watkins. 

[jte54]

12 hours ago, Ellros said:

  Out of curiousity,   Where (or what) is this "market" for largemouth?  Is it restaurants?  Or certain ethnic groups?   Local?   Or foreign?

There is a large Asian market for them near the larger cities.  From what I gather the buyers are near Chicago.  I have been told by my supervisor that there are some fish hauler/transporters ( middle men) ready to pick them up and take them up there.  Also for the last two years or so we had a Chinese postdoc from Chicago and she would mentioned there were many people in the Asian communities up that way that bought a lot of largemouth bass.

[jte54]

15 hours ago, MOPanfisher said:

Sir, if you can breed/raise/train them to pick and eat the Japanese beetles off of my apple trees, I will invest and we will be billionaires.

Have you used the beetle traps that dumps them into a trash bag.  We have many traps placed around our research farm and our crops are in great shape.  Contact  out IPM expert Dr. Jamie Pinero (573) 681-5522 Pineroj@lincolnu.edu.  But, often his technician Austin Dudenhoeffer is easier to reach at austen.dudenhoeffer657@my.lincolnu.edu.  I have Austen's phone number but it's his cell and not sure I permission to give it out. But, if you email him I am sure Austen can send you in the right direction to get some good traps.  He can tell you which ones they use and how to put them up so that you don't waste money on brands that do not work

[MOPanfisher]

Thanks.  I have zero apples on my trees this year.  They got hammered despite the profligate use of poisons.

[dtrs5kprs]

On 9/12/2017 at 10:39 AM, cheesemaster said:

I can't stand to eat any fish or sea food - yuck!!!

Thank you. Better have hooves, feathers, or fur, if it's going on my plate. 

[dtrs5kprs]

5 hours ago, jte54 said:

There is a large Asian market for them near the larger cities.  From what I gather the buyers are near Chicago.  I have been told by my supervisor that there are some fish hauler/transporters ( middle men) ready to pick them up and take them up there.  Also for the last two years or so we had a Chinese postdoc from Chicago and she would mentioned there were many people in the Asian communities up that way that bought a lot of largemouth bass.

This seems like the grease on the slippery slope. 

[MoCarp]

45 minutes ago, dtrs5kprs said:

This seems like the grease on the slippery slope. 

if it was legal to buy and sell bass in the USA food industry, you can count on bass poaching, if its out of the USA no problem..I'd hate to see gill nets in some back cove on TR

 

 

[bfishn]

17 minutes ago, MoCarp said:

if it was legal to buy and sell bass in the USA food industry, you can count on bass poaching, if its out of the USA no problem..I'd hate to see gill nets in some back cove on TR

 

 

It is legal, just like trout and catfish. The producer gets an aquaculture (fish farmer) permit from the state, and gives receipts to buyers/resellers for every purchase to keep them out of trouble.

OMG!!!! There'll be gill nets all over Taneycomo tomorrow!!!

(...you were right Wrench...)

[cheesemaster]

1 hour ago, dtrs5kprs said:

Thank you. Better have hooves, feathers, or fur, if it's going on my plate. 

With a nice side of potatoes!!! 

[Flysmallie]

38 minutes ago, MoCarp said:

if it was legal to buy and sell bass in the USA food industry, you can count on bass poaching, if its out of the USA no problem..I'd hate to see gill nets in some back cove on TR

 

 

I think it was @Mitch that saw largemouth bass for sale in an Asian market in St. Louis a year or two ago.