I saw one of these swimming in one of our local parks.

[Chris Kuhn]

This is old but here is some more info on the them for you guys.


http://www.ctsa.org/upload/publication/ ... 460333.pdf

Maybe I should get a live well before I try and catch him.

[castaway]

those fish can be mean - make sure you turn the sound up..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jp9BSW38bXg

[apache trout]

Let me guess Fairmont park? When I was in high school we caught all sort of tropicals in there, mostly oscars, but every once in while a red devil or some other strage chiclid.
Zach

[rayfound]

This is old but here is some more info on the them for you guys.


http://www.ctsa.org/upload/publication/ ... 460333.pdf

Maybe I should get a live well before I try and catch him.

Or like, keep at 5 gallon bucket with you. those little bastards look aggressive, weird it hasn't been caught already. Seems unlikely they would successfully reproduce in lake evans...

[Chris Kuhn]

This is old but here is some more info on the them for you guys.


http://www.ctsa.org/upload/publication/ ... 460333.pdf

Maybe I should get a live well before I try and catch him.

Or like, keep at 5 gallon bucket with you. those little bastards look aggressive, weird it hasn't been caught already. Seems unlikely they would successfully reproduce in lake evans...

I guess most don't look at Lake Evans as an ecosystem, but if they were to reproduce they could decimate the bass population pretty quickly. It looked to me as though he was on the prowl for juvenile bass.

[rayfound]

Chris, I think that not looking at Lake Evans as an ecosystem is a mistake, all I mean, was that from my reading of the link posted above, it seems like they are fairly finicky fish when it comes to reproduction, and it seems unlikely that Lake Evans would happen to have the right set of conditions.

[Chris Kuhn]

Chris, I think that not looking at Lake Evans as an ecosystem is a mistake, all I mean, was that from my reading of the link posted above, it seems like they are fairly finicky fish when it comes to reproduction, and it seems unlikely that Lake Evans would happen to have the right set of conditions.

Oh no I wasn't criticizing your post. I just think most people in Riverside just think of this place as somewhere you come to grill hotdogs. Few, especially those that dump exotics in the lake, think that this is even remotely a wild setting. I was thinking of the possible implications for the behavior of some idiot that would toss an exotic species in the lake and the fact that nothing is enforced here either.

From what I gathered from the link it is difficult to breed them in captivity. But it also said they were not fussy about water quality. Something that would allow them to thrive in this lake. But I hope you are right.

[Sasha]

I would not get too concerned about them taking over California's waters.......yet


Some more info for you guys........ http://nas.er.usgs.gov/queries/FactShee ... ciesID=799