Snake head fishing

[seegran]

Ok, I asked because they have some monsters in Thailand and Malaysia.

I am from Malaysia. The giant snakehead are different from snakehead.

Large snakehead, like the giant snakehead prized as an angling fish in South East Asia (NB. that one pictured in the link above looks like a different species, but is pretty decently sized!) often prey on carp.  They have sharp cutting teeth and can kill quite large prey with a cutting bite similar to a (small) shark or bluefish. Carp don't have many natural predators in many areas they've been introduced to, but snakeheads definitely are one. 

They are very cool game fish IMO - very oriented to surface disturbance (not really a surprise as they take a lot of frogs in the wild), good fighters, and as the link above notes, can require real watercraft to hook.  And they're tasty.    Not saying they should be introduced, in the US or elsewhere (though Florida is so full of exotics already that one more probably doesn't matter) - but they are interesting critters, both as fish and as gamefish. 

Good game fish.

[Keta]

Nice!

[nelz]

I am from Malaysia. The giant snakehead are different from snakehead.

Wow, nice fish.    Those giant snakeheads are beautiful, the iridescent rainbow colors are amazing.

[oc1]

Good one, and that looks like an interesting place to fish too.