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Bassmaster · Joined: 12 May 2010 Posts: 19

I was wondering if anyone out there know of someone or has heard of someone catching any snake head in ct the last report I heard where from maryland and that was last year just wondering if they moved closer this way or not?

Crest Daddy · Joined: 20 Jan 2011 Posts: 994

Probably not. I think with all the yrs they were available in the aquarium trade it would have happened already.People are always releasing fish that get 2 big. I doubt they would survive the winters up here but you never know. There was a big pacu caught out of a local pond about 10 or more yrs ago that had been released by a customer of mine @ the time. He thought it was funny. The people who caught it and the bait shop they brought it to thought it was a piranha . Not too funny after all. It was in the paper. Dont buy fish you cant accommodate. They do grow bigger than their tanks.
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Glen5 · Joined: 29 May 2011 Posts: 5

I was in dicks sporting goods picking up some more stuff and there was a guy in there also getting some things and he said his friend caught one in the scantic river off the bridge in powder hollow in Enfield.

atkins · Joined: 13 Apr 2010 Posts: 220 Location: Manchester

mostly likely that was a bowfin, The mass fish and game introduced bowfin to the connecticut river