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If you catch one and kept it, notification to the authorities is mandatory.
Just send an email to one of these guys....
Steve.Owens@dgif.virginia.gov
John.Odenkirk@dgif.virginia.gov
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Since when did they start that up again?
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He (Odenkirk) has never quit....he wants to track the fish not the fisherman!
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Odenkirk wants when, where, length, and weight.
Here is part of his reply to me over the weekend:
"I am still trying to track them (and if they are kept, notification is mandatory). Looks like you are in canal #1 off LHC - a NSH hotspot."
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Oops Curly, I think you just gave away Thai's snakehead hole. Dont worry, I won't tell a soul
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I have more holes than one Mike, my bigger fish producing spot is down south on the MD side
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Besides, it's no secret if you've seen the NatGeo program!
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The Rivermonsters episode this week is on the snakehead and their US invasion.
http://animal.discovery.com/fish/river- … snakehead/
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Straight from the VA Outdoor Report - John Odenkirk on snakeheads:
1. Snakeheads are good eating, as they are very tasty with firm white meat.
2. Take a cooler and ice with you so as to keep the fish from spoiling.
3. Take a net so as to successfully land the fish that are arrowed.
4. Potomac rivershed anglers are reminded that the law states that nobody may possess any snakehead fish of any species unless the fish is a northern (the kind in the Potomac). Adam's snakehead (there was a story) was legally caught, is dead, and the catch was called in to the hotline (804-367-2925). We appreciate his efforts to catch snakeheads and follow-up with reporting the catch and kill.
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Just got a report of a few NSHs caught in Nanjemoy Creek. That's the 2nd (edited) creek north of the 301 bridge!
The fella said. "My buddy caught six last week-end; we went today and caught four more in about an hour. One had a 4" catfish in his belly."
Curly told him to eat them....yummmm!
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I wonder if they are all the way down into the Port Tobacco creek area? Nanjemoy is further up than that... There are tons of cats around the 301 bridge so maybe the snakeheads could also tolerate the salinity?
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Todd Nalley on the PRAC board posted a while back the Port Tobacco was full of them. If rumors are true they must tolerate salt. I've seen reports from Monroe Cr behind Colonial Beach and even St Mary's River and Smith Cr giving up some. I'm wondering about Pasquahanza Cr below the plant.
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In colder temps they can survive and forage at 10ppt indefinitely, and the higher tolerance range appeared to be 18ppt but warmer water means their thresholds and duration in such saline conditions are lowered
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