Did you read the sign in your own video? “If you catch a fish that looks like a Round Goby DO NOT RELEASE IT. Please keep a sample for identification and call the Invading Species Hotline.”
they're in all the waters here in MIchigan. Not so sure about the inland lakes, but they're in the rivers and creeks, as I catch them in my minnow traps
Thats not true , both drum and shellcrackers eat them , and the smallmouth fishing is better due do the gobies , and the lake is much cleaner due to the zebra mussels , and although the do hurt the environment some they help in other ways . Two sides of the coin, tell both sides.
"you have to throw it back immediately"... What you are you crazy? Kill them. I remember fishing once as a teenager and catching dozens of them in one day.
So many absolutely, why not kill them instead of releasing them back has me puzzled though and the size I've read is up to 6 inches. Thanks for this information.
I think they actually made the fisheries on the Great Lakes much better. Bigger fish and much more plentiful. I think the numerous invasive mussel species are probably much worse.
The last time I fished Lake Michigan in Milwaukee Harbor every time a nightcrawler hit the bottom I had a goby. I caught one hundred of them and have never bottom fished Lake Michigan ever again.
2 comments re the Round Goby- 1 Beautiful? NOT. 2 When I catch one, I kill it. Period. I'm sure that the scientists have their reasons, but I don't care.