oh no lionfish

[mickela]

:rollface: Just read this months american angler mag (yes another sick hobby) and they had a pretty neat artical on lionfish being found in reefs (close to shore) in places they have never been seen before like Cape Hatteras,North Carolina and the Bahamas and there are enough they are starting to worry about the local population of fish and inverts,and what the long term affect will end up being.They are even eating small grouper and snappers They have no real enemy but a couple of fishermen (or women LOL) have found juvies in the stomach of huge groupers.This just makes you wonder how they all ended up in these places.
Just thought it made for a real neat read and I hope putting the name of the mag on here isnt against the boards if so sorry and please remove

 

[fatrip]

if you look there are some great articals from Joe, the founder of atlantis marine world, about lion fish that are caught of the coast of Long Island. I have seen there Lion tank after a summer in late aug. it has more than 40 in it that they have caught in local waters.

 

[mickela]

just never expected to see this in a fly fishing mag.pretty neat surprise though

 

[fatrip]

lol...yes i can see that being a surprise...dam mickela how many expensive hobbies do you have...lol...

 

[mickela]

wat toooooooo many as the old man reminds me all the time but he shares in on this one
Turning stone is later today lol

 

[fatrip]

lol...fly fishing is a great time, i wish i just had more time to do it...lol... i dont gambel tho, i never win so i stoped...lol...

 

[Capt_Cully]

Just saw it on the news. Dateline's doing a story on it.

My wife was like, "what the ??", and I started basically rattling off mickela's post verbetum. I had read it like 5 minutes before seeing the commercial. My wife thinks I'm some sort of savant for "knowing all about it already"

I confessed.

 

[fatrip]

acctually they are finding mroe and more tropical fish migrating north to more food enriched water. there was artical that was talking about LI and how tropical fish eggs float all around and if they hatch in a warm enough environment they will live. usually they live in LI until about late sept when the ocean temp goes below 60 degrees. they do alot of marine rehabilitation at atlantis marine world and they take some of the fish that would have evenually died off the coast back to the aquariums. 2 weekends ago they had a ebili angle that they caught off the coast.

 

[Capt_Cully]

So I guess I won't drop my tanks temp to 65deg after all.....

 

[fatrip]

:lol: funny guy...hey you comin down to nates meet?

 

[Capt_Cully]

Nah, wish I could. Gotta work.

 

[fatrip]

bummer...