Bizarre fish with scary looking teeth

Friday, June 29, 2012 12:40pm PDT

Bizarre fish with scary-looking teeth throw scare into lake community
By: Pete Thomas, GrindTV.com

The discovery of an alien fish species in a small lake in Illinois has put locals and tourists on edge because the fish posses dangerous-looking teeth and bear a striking resemblance to ravenous piranha.

This saga began when a NewsChannel 5 viewer informed the station that piranhas were being caught by fishermen in Lake Lou Yaeger, which is located in the community of Litchfield.

(One fish was captured on June 7 and a second was reportedly hooked more recently.)

It seemed eerily like a landlocked version of "Jaws," but without the enormous shark and corny lines, such as, "I think we're going to need a bigger boat."


South american freshwater fish. Omnivore hmmmmm.
IT was a pacu these fish become way to big for aquariums. Imagine them becoming over 3 feet in our native waters eating the native fish. But they are suppose to be tasty eating this superior taste was compared to rainbow trout tasty tasty.[b]

I've seen Pacu's over 6 feet!There cool,but nothing you want in your tank!Thanks for the report sassy!

Our native fish as we know them will someday unfortunately be a thing of the past. With people dumping there unwanted aquarium fish in our lakes and rivers and foreign species being released. The sight a youngster catching their first little sunfish will no longer be the thrill of a life time. So sad what is happening.

whisper wrote:

Our native fish as we know them will someday unfortunately be a thing of the past. With people dumping there unwanted aquarium fish in our lakes and rivers and foreign species being released. The sight a youngster catching their first little sunfish will no longer be the thrill of a life time. So sad what is happening.

I don't even like it when some "sportsman" and I use the term losely decides he needs to be able to fish for bass in his little section of river and puts a bunch there as the bass will eat the salmon and steelhead smolt as well as any smolt from other native fish.

I do fish and hunt, but I won't turn any of my aquarium flora/fauna lose in the wild. The flora goes on the burn pile, and I haven't had to get rid of fauna besides pond snails which I take to a small pet store for them to feed their puffers whole, or feed other fish squished.

Pacu, Pirhana, Weather Loach, and Snake heads aren't legal in Oregon to buy or sell.

Dave