https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/breaking-invasive-smallmouth-bass-caught-within-spitting-distance-of-yellowston
Bad link.
Let's try this one
https://www.fieldandstream.com/conservation/smallmouth-bass-yellowstone/
Bummer.
So, they're on the east side. A Slough Creek/Lamar River invasion would be a real drag. Wonder how?..., migration or someone planting them?
The smallie is an amazing fish...but I don't want them in Yellowstone. Be that as it may, smallies are in many of the rivers downstream from, and connected to, the Yellowstone, and as one of the comments to the article in the link said, it's really a wonder that they have not shown up earlier.
Frank
Another one: They occasionally catch northern pike in salmon nets in Cook Inlet, Alaska.
Be thankful guys all you got was small mouths , in some places here in Canada people have caught HUGE, and I mean huge goldfish . I'm still like WTF ???
People think they are "doing right" to "free" unwanted goldfish "pets" into freshwater streams, ponds, etc. All they are doing is introducing another invasive, un-natural species into the wild. DON'T DO IT!
Frank
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Quote from: Lalo13 on March 28, 2022, 03:06:42 AMBe thankful guys all you got was small mouths , in some places here in Canada people have caught HUGE, and I mean huge goldfish . I'm still like WTF ???
the really huge ones are likely koi or half-breeds
(pure goldfish don't get that big, but readily hybridize w/ carp)