Snakeheads

[ErikNJD]

Does anyone know/recommend any guides/charters that target snakheads in NJ?

[ErikNJD]

Well I found a guide, thanks everyone 😆 Went out the last Friday in June down in Salem County. Landed 3 of 7 snakes and 1 of 4 largies, plus a bunch of swipes and misses. Threw poppin frogs all day long.

On a side note- I heard a report of snakeheads in the Toms River, but I have yet to run into one bass fishing. Now I know they have made it above the dam and into Oakford Lake in New Egypt, so I assume from there they could use the creeks/brooks like Jumping Brook and Bordens Mill to make it into the Tom's. Has anyone else heard or seen snakes this far east in Jersey???

[Godrew1972]

Those are a great fight, and they really slam it when they hit. Does the guide want you to kill them after the picture, since F&W requires that they be killed?

I have never caught any in NJ waters, but have gotten them around the golf courses in Florida.

[AndyS]

I hope you didn't release them back into the water.

[ErikNJD]

Guys you dont have to kill anything. The only thing you have to do is release them back into the same water you caught it in. They cant force you to kill something. All fish were safely released since I did not want to keep any. The negativity around them is bs and the little studies on them show that. They should be embraced not treated like villains

[Ol Pedro]

. Has anyone else heard or seen snakes this far east in Jersey???[/QUOTE]

Grandson caught 1 out of the skimmer outflow creek below Prospertown dam. It tasted great !!! Don't think that they can get into the lake via the flume/skimmer.

[ErikNJD]

Yeah I know about them being caught below Prospertown. Thats as far as they can go there

[AndyS]

INVASIVE. If I ever catch one I'm tearing it's head off.

[AndyS]

Since everyone is so smitten with these newly introduced invasive fish why don't we just cut to the chase and try this instead. We'll scuttle all the hatcheries, both Pequest and Hackettstown. Do away with all law enforcement since we will no longer will have size and bag limits along with closed seasons. Let people stock whatever fish they desire. We won't need fishing licenses also, won't that be great ! I'm heading to the exotic fish store, any requests ?

[AndyS]

You know what this is called, humans "homogenizing" the Earth. In a sense we are picking everything up and placing it in different spots, technically where it doesn't belong. I will say this though, in nature there is NO excess. Somehow nature always finds a way to balance things out, despite human interaction.