Some buddies and I hit a dock on Friday night (man, it was cold! That north wind was biting and I didn’t dress properly) and seemed like we couldn’t catch the same species twice. Used shrimp and cut mullet
Here’s the tally:
Trout
Red
ray
whiting
oyster toad
3 ft alligator gar
2 foot pale yellow/green eel
croaker
Never caught an eel before, so that was interesting and the alligator gar was unexpected, didn’t even know they’d be in the salt.
Ran into a guy Sunday who said he caught a snakehead off that dock.
Hope that, if the guy really did catch a snake head, he reported it. I am sure the biologist would like to know about that…they are a bad, bad thing to have around.
He mentioned that after he had caught it, that he was supposed to kill it and then either report or send it to DNR. So, he was aware but after the fact.
Around here, you are far more likely to run into large longnose gar and perhaps shortnose. Alligator gar are not supposed to be in this area. Did you happen to take a pic?
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I thought snakeheads are fresh water species.Maybe wrong, BUT! Here’s a shot of a longnose I caught.
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maybe the gar was shortnose and not an alligator. It was definitely a gar though. Sorry no picture.
Can’t confirm about the snakehead, just going by what the guy told me. Agree it could have been a lizardfish, oystertoad or any other one of those odd looking fish you catch once in a while.
