Fishing for snakehead fish?

[GTRS Fiero]

A fish that can survive on land?  3 feet long?

Have you seen these?

[GTRS Fiero]

They're invasive.  Maybe someone had better start catching them.

[Fierofool]

Several were caught in Gwinnett County, which is here next to me.  Twin Bridges Lakes on Braselton Hwy in Lawrenceville is where the tv's have been reporting.  As one man told the reporter, someone had to release the species in that lake.  I fished in it in the '60s with a friend who lived across the road.  The headwaters starts within 1/4 mile of the lake and the downstream outflow goes into a major river and then 2 major lakes.  They haven't been noted in any of those waters which are very popular fishing waters. 

[GTRS Fiero]

Why would the fish have to be released there?

[Fierofool]

If they had traveled to that lake, there would certainly be others that would have been caught somewhere in the 75 or so miles from the two major lakes.  Those lakes don't have a conventional spillway.  At the dam, it has a catch basin outfall.  Basically, it's a big brick and concrete drain where the lake overflows into it and the water drops to the bottom and flows out a pipe at the bottom of the dam. 

Sure, the fish could have climbed from the stream and over the dam, but I still think there would have been fish caught further downstream in other waters.  Pictures shown on tv appear that the fish are over a foot long, each. 

[GTRS Fiero]

3 feet long, supposedly.

[GTRS Fiero]

I wonder if rules apply to these, or if they can be killed where and when found.  Fishing license required?  Can they be shot?  Electric wire?

They probably make good pig feed.

[Fierofool]

I'm sure one would need a fishing license in Georgia.  Can't hunt fish with a firearm here either, or any shocking methods.  Probably because the shockers would affect other fish nearby.  They do recommend that the fish be killed and not thrown back. 

[GTRS Fiero]

Not worth the effort, with all those rules.