A Fisherman’s (possible) Dream Fish
What fishermen like is catching fish, and if that fish strikes artificial baits aggressively, grows to be a whopper in a relatively short time and is excellent to eat, then what’s not to like? Tasty white meat, a fighter that grows to three feet in length, this freshwater game fish has everything required to get fathers and sons up early and in the boat together. Make that mothers and daughters as well, as more and more fishermen are women.
But we need a name for it that’s more attractive for the frying pan than snakehead. Ugh. Can I please have another helping of snakehead? doesn’t do much for dinner table conversation. Some more snakehead, darling? Won’t work.
But it strikes me that before we stumble all over ourselves poisoning ponds and constructing elaborate electric fences across rivers, we ought to take a look at this Asian fish that’s been found in some East Coast ponds as well as the Potomac River tributaries. Steve Minkkinen, snakehead expert at the U.S. Fish and Wildlif…