Where was a dangerous northern snakehead fish caught?
A Belmont man caught a rare and dangerous fish in Lake Wylie, and he talked exclusively to WCNC. The northern snakehead fish eats nearly anything, spreads disease easily, and can even survive out of water. Barry Faw says his kayak has helped net some big fish. He recently caught two huge bass on Lake Wylie and was hoping for another when he caught something else entirely. “It came straight toward the boat and opened up its mouth,” Faw said. “When it got about this far and I was like, ‘Wow!’ I said, ‘This is something; I gotta catch this.’” Faw said he knew immediately it wasn’t the bass he was hoping for, or the carp he assumed it was when he was wrestling it to the surface. “When I got it next to the boat and it opened up its mouth, I knew right away — it wasn’t a carp,” he said. Not even close. Faw had caught a 13 pound, 31-inch long northern snakehead. “It had quite an attitude — it was about the meanest thing I’d ever hooked, to be honest with you,” he said. Native to China, snak
An angler fishing the Paw Creek arm of Lake Wylie in Mecklenburg County caught a 31-inch northern snakehead on April 19. Gary Upton of McAdenville took the fish, which weighed 12 pounds, 7 ounces, to a N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission fisheries biologist, who initially identified the fish as a northern snakehead. The biologist then sent the fish to Dr. Wayne Starnes, curator of fishes at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences. Starnes confirmed the identification of the fish as a northern snakehead. http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/story/1516820.html Commission biologists are currently sampling Lake Wylie for additional adult snakehead and any evidence of reproduction. Lake Wylie is located on the border of North and South Carolina. Biologists will continue to assess the 13,443-acre lake over the next few weeks in conjunction with staff from Duke Energy and the S.C. Department of Natural Resources to id
A Belmont man caught a rare and dangerous fish in Lake Wylie, and he talked exclusively to WCNC. The northern snakehead fish eats nearly anything, spreads disease easily, and can even survive out of water. Barry Faw says his kayak has helped net some big fish. He recently caught two huge bass on Lake Wylie and was hoping for another when he caught something else entirely. “It came straight toward the boat and opened up its mouth,” Faw said. “When it got about this far and I was like, ‘Wow!’ I said, ‘This is something; I gotta catch this.’” Faw said he knew immediately it wasn’t the bass he was hoping for, or the carp he assumed it was when he was wrestling it to the surface. “When I got it next to the boat and it opened up its mouth, I knew right away — it wasn’t a carp,” he said. Not even close. Faw had caught a 13 pound, 31-inch long northern snakehead. “It had quite an attitude — it was about the meanest thing I’d ever hooked, to be honest with you,” he said. Native to China, snak
An angler fishing the Paw Creek arm of Lake Wylie in Mecklenburg County caught a 31-inch northern snakehead on April 19. Gary Upton of McAdenville took the fish, which weighed 12 pounds, 7 ounces, to a N.C. Wildlife Resources Commission fisheries biologist, who initially identified the fish as a northern snakehead. The biologist then sent the fish to Dr. Wayne Starnes, curator of fishes at the N.C. Museum of Natural Sciences. Starnes confirmed the identification of the fish as a northern snakehead. http://www.newsobserver.com/sports/story/1516820.html Commission biologists are currently sampling Lake Wylie for additional adult snakehead and any evidence of reproduction. Lake Wylie is located on the border of North and South Carolina. Biologists will continue to assess the 13,443-acre lake over the next few weeks in conjunction with staff from Duke Energy and the S.C. Department of Natural Resources to id
