waterinthefuel
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That's awesome!Salamander, Water Dog, etc...I opened my friend's livewell last Sat. and found a half digested 5-6" catfish in there. Apparently, one of the bass that got a ride to the ramp puked it out while in the livewell. There's a youtube video of some kids toss a ground squirrel into a lilly pads bed. Well, you know the story.
Not surprised at all, I recently had a "discussion" on here with someone that worships the almighty largemouth and couldn't believe that in other parts of the world where the bass has been transplanted, its an ecological disaster. Did you hear about the guy a few years ago "lipping" a largemouth into the boat and getting bitten on the thumb? He didn't get bitten by the bass, but by the cottonmouth it had partially swallowed!
C'mon Ric, get over it! LM bass can't and won't be "an ecological disaster" and I would bet my paycheck on it. Unless you can show me a documented ecological disaster ANYWHERE that LM bass have been introduced into. Until then, you have no argument my friend.
Wow!
With all due respect, given the number of ecological disasters from the accidental, or purposeful (though misguided) introduction of non-indigenous species of wildlife it takes a certain level of arrogance to state that because you are unfamiliar with a specific-species disaster story that it could not and would not happen.
That seems to stem from even greater arrogance that we (humans) can do better than Mother Nature...
I am familiar with at least four large mouth bass intros in North America which nearly wiped out resident trout populations....and a few more worldwide that were as much or more catastrophic.
These can be found documented in libraries and the internet....and are part of the teaching curriculum in many Biology programs in leading North American Universities....and there are scores more that I've never heard of....
You should do some research---or just Google some variant of "large mouth bass introduction disaster", before you play so loose and casual with your paycheque....
e.g. :
www.sciencecases.org/nature/nature_notes.asp
With all due respect to you too sir! I'm afraid your google-fu is quite weak this time because the search results are lame, especially the link you posted. If you know what Ric and I were discussing about you might have a different view. The disaster he referred to is the Asian biologists feared that bass will wipe out all native species in Asia. What you and others are talking about is how bass eaten up the trouts, just trouts in ponds. That's hardly a disaster. I guess it's all in how you consider what is a disaster. Like I've said before, bass are opportunistic and lazy. They will eat whatever is the most abundance and easy to catch. Trouts are apparently abundance and are easy prey in the waters that bass were introduced into.