Fishing the Everglades - Florida Fishing Road Trip Chronicles 2
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day 2 in Florida, again blowing 25+ at the shore so I stuck to the canals but instead of fishing the downtown canals I drove west, away from Miami, and fished in the Everglades. It is the Taimiami Trail that runs along route 41 from pretty much the gulf coast to the atlantic coast. Caught a Pleco, numerous Bowfin and some Oscars all while sharing the bank with some locals and some Gators. This footage is mostly from the morning of Feb 20, I spent the afternoon uploading these video off my gopro to make room for the rest of the journey, blew a fuse, fixed fuse, and resumed fishing just before dusk. The fishing wasn't spectacular, did catch some new species and got the bowfin all riled up for about an hour, good times exploring the everglades! If you're ever doing some exploratory fishing trips in crazy places, you might need a lucky shirt from http://www.lure-fish.com/apparel/ Thanks for watching!
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Ditto for the Pleco family of fish, some of which get quite large and can be aggressive to smaller inhabitants in an aquarium.
Talk about "multiculturalism." They don't belong here, but it's too late to do anything about them.
They don't tolerate plants or decorations other than rocks in the tank. People who cherish them get rather low brow pleasure from watching them gulp food, but big deal! No such thing as creating a natural eco system with an Oscar, or observing breeding behavior. It's simply a cow in your back yard.
You want an aquarium? There are hundreds of other species that are prettier and more enjoyable.
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http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/nonnatives/freshwater-fish/
How bad are the snakeheads down in Floridia?
thank you!
when a big gar is removed a cycle starts.first part of the cycle is a boom in game fish population resulting in more fish but smaller fish cause there isn't enough food for all the fish.second phase is new baby gar start fighting over the territory once occupied by the adult gar and the finial phase adult gar is back in that spot and everything goes back to normal.this takes years to occur and the cycle normally gets interrupted by fisher men who don't understand how ecology works.
those Oscars were there, probably nesting, and then the gate opened and they got worn out and beat up in the fast moving current so they chill near the bank and wait for the flood gate to close then recover.
they are usually in almost still water.
also snake heads actually got to florida form asian food markets.most likely they were either housed in unsecure cages and walked away cause they can breath and walk on land or more likely were quote on quote saved by petards and released into the wild like the red eared sliders were.
these guys ancestors could of been released pets or farm escapees.
but I think florida's invasives are most likely escapees from poorly secured farms cause it's climate is prefect for farming many different types of tropical pets but it also has hurricanes.
They even make some nice fish grippers that look like pliers and stuff but with hooks at the end to grab at the mouth.
https://youtu.be/_4-3B21Ozv8?t=5m25s
I like your chronicles.
"Yeah, put it here."
Throws it back afterwards... 16:00
my Oscars let me touch them
Members of the Loricariidae family of suckermouth catfish, Plecostomus, or Plecos, have specially adapted mouthparts, enabling them to attach to substrate. Most Plecos are peaceful fish and prefer to rest or slowly graze over the aquarium bottom, and do an excellent job of cleaning unwanted algae from the bottom and sides of the tank. http://www.liveaquaria.com/product/aquarium-fish-supplies.cfm?c=830+837
https://www.google.com/search?q=Plecostomus+Fish&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
Oscar Fish, I had one in my tank and as he got larger he ate some of the bigger fish until he was the only one left.
As for Bowfins, never heard it called anything else but a Mud Fish in my 60+ years, until a few months ago when I found if was a Bow Fin. When the swamp dries up the go into the mud and breath air until the water comes back.
So they were taught wrong, not my fault!
Over the years maybe folks read the word without knowing the right pronunciation and adopted a new way of saying it. But when talking on the phone to make the orders the importer (who had a heavy Spanish accent) said the word without the "L". So I would take his word over what people call it these days. The state of Florida (the only place in America you find this fish calls it a Sailfin Catfish, even though it is not even related to the Catfish family. So should I also adopt their name for the fish when I know it is wrong?
http://myfwc.com/wildlifehabitats/profiles/freshwater/nonnatives/sailfin-catfish/
Well I am sure you know much more than I and my 50 years in the pet trade, so I won't bother arguing with you. We sold hundreds of them and bought some back when they got to big for the customer and after all of these years of experience now I find out I have been saying it wrong all of this time and so did all of the dealers my store dealt with. So I hope you won't mind if I continue to say it the way I was taught from the people who brought them into this country and sold them to us. Maybe it was their accent that threw us off.
This is education little tidbits at a time and the way I learned.
as alex tatem mentioned people dump them.but there are also other reasons like petatards releasing them.some of them could be from people using them as bait(this is especially true for goldfish).also some of them could of escaped from farms since florida is ideal for farming tropical fish.
Ahh ok 7:20 There's your Gator, Lucky you spotted him on the bank instead of sticking your hand in its mouth going near the edge of the water releasing your fish.
I'm aware....I live here.
http://imgur.com/a/Tq4Xh