They're a type of armored catfish called the brown hoplo, native to South America but they've made it at least as far north as Gainesville, where I live.
Big in the aquarium trade, and apparently they're a popular food fish too.
I've caught a Bunch here in the Glades.
Cast net and drying out Road ditches in the Dry season. I just chuck them up for the Birds to eat.
Small 12 in. or so.
There's actually a commercial fishery for them in the St. Johns River west of Melbourne. The commercials use cast nets and catch a bundle of them. I've seen places around a spillway in a canal on the west side of the Stick Marsh where thousands of them would be laying on the bottom in shallow water right along the bank. Never caught any of them and don't need to!
thebelgian
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I started a thread in OT about it a week ago.
They're a type of armored catfish called the brown hoplo, native to South America but they've made it at least as far north as Gainesville, where I live.
Big in the aquarium trade, and apparently they're a popular food fish too.
Where are you located?
Cast net and drying out Road ditches in the Dry season. I just chuck them up for the Birds to eat.
Small 12 in. or so.