Jeezus Schmeezus

[BarryBobPosthole]

Watching a special on WFN about Lake Michigan about invasive species. I guess there aren't hardly ANY native species in that lake, including the chinook and the the rainbows.

BKB

[Buckrub]

I caught two last year.

[Thumper]

The last time I was around Lake Michigan was during the summer. The biggest "invasive species" I saw on that lake was Yankees! ;)

[airbud7]

hahahaha :laughing

[Buckrub]

I saw Bubba. He was a huge invasive species, long entrenched, too.

[jb]

This is a list of native fish, everything else was planted or invasive.
Ninespine Stickleback
Brook Stickeback
Spoonhead Sculpin
Slimy Sculpin
Mottled Sculpin
Deepwater Sculpin
Golden Shiner
Redfin Shiner
Bigmouth Buffalo
Walleye
Sauger
Lake Trout
Yellow Perch
Logperch
White Bass
Yellow Bass
Freshwater Drum
Brook Silverside
Emerald Shiner
Cisco (Lake Herring)
Bowfin
Burbot.

[Buckrub]

OK, so I didn't catch two native species.

[BarryBobPosthole]

Yep, Jerry they were saying that all of the existing lake trout were stockers because the sea lampreys did them in. There's like 180 invasive species in the lake. Ironically, the zebra mussel is credited with a lot of the comeback of the walleye fishery there.

Did you live there when the alewives were washing ashore by the jillions? That was one of the species that came in and overtook many of the native ones.

BKB

[jb]

I was, back in the 60's the beaches were so covered with dead alewives that you could not stand the smell.
They were so thick on the beaches you could not walk down to the water.
The salmon were planted to get rid of them, it did and the rest is history.

[BarryBobPosthole]

Those lampreys are some icky looking critters too. How often do you see them?

BKB

[airbud7]

I was, back in the 60's the beaches were so covered with dead alewives that you could not stand the smell.
They were so thick on the beaches you could not walk down to the water.
The salmon were planted to get rid of them, it did and the rest is history.

Wow...found a picture of Chicago Harbor 1960s

2794

[LJ3]

ew

[johnboy]

I lived close to Lake Ontario in the early '60's and well remember going to beach only to turn around and go back home because of the huge numbers of dead alewives. Pretty nasty.

One that is causing great concern if it ever makes it to the Great Lakes is the Asian Carp - the crazy buggers that jump out of the water when disturbed. They figure they will destroy the lakes ecosystem if they make it up that far.

[jb]

Barry, still catch a few lake trout with lampreys marks, years back caught a few with the bastards still attached.
Up in Alaska they eat those damn things.
Their numbers are way down, but there are a few still around.

[Captain]

Damn that is a pile of fish... Think we found a place Bucky can get a limit... ;)

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