Indiana's strange fish.

[jmarriott]

www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090824/LOCAL/90824057

I don't think I would have stuck my finger in it's mouth. Does anyone have a good recipe?

[deputydon]

There's been a few of them caught below the Gavins Point Damn in the last 5 years. As I recall the last one was about the same size as this one. The problem is they could have come all the way from between Yankton S.D. and the ocean or anywhere in between to get here. So no one knows where or how they got in the Missouri River system. Or how many schools of them are swiming around!!!!

www.argusleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050619/NEWS/506190302/1001/NEWS



“Fisherman catches piranha in Missouri River.” Sioux Falls Argus Leader, 19 June 2005.



Ray Wolter, fishing with a worm Thursday near the Meridian Bridge at Yankton, caught a foot-long piranha that weighed 31/4 to 4 pounds.

*appears in the Yankton Press & Dakotan, 18 June 2005.

[jmarriott]

The local park has a little lake that had a gator about 16 inches long on it until they caught it in a net.

I know the south american oscar fish is in the canals of florida and they catch em now like bluegill.

[jimiowa]

Acording to Iowa DNR, they would have to have been released from someones aquarium. Because they could not survive out winters this far north??

[jabba]

They fish for them for dinner on south american peacock bass trips. They're supposed to be pretty tasty.

Jabba

[bounce]

A lot of things I don't eat are most sertainly tasty!!

[jmarriott]

Indiana has some of the worst water in the nation. With Farmer run off and industries dumping directly.

I eat fish for only a few places in the state, Potoka res being one of the highest water quality in the state with freshwater jellyfish in it.

River fish and the like for me are a catch and release fish.

[jabba]

I am a farm pond fish eater.

I'll eat fish from Bradford Woods too.

Jabba