Plecos in LA park lake

by **Peterkarig3210** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 3:15 am

I was fishing in a local lake at Balboa park with my son in the Sanfernando valley, which is fed with reclaimed sewage water, and had a look in one of the buckets the other fishermen had, and along with mostly tilapia there were a few 8 inch plecos. I guess this lake is a favorite place to get rid of aquarium fish that get too big.

Just thought this was interesting. The guy who caught them was planning on eating them.

by **Snowboss4492** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 3:30 am

im sure a fish is a fish but that just seems wrong for some reason .....lol

by **Peterkarig3210** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 6:27 am

The tilapia are in the millions it seems. These guys were using nets and scooping up bucket loads of 6-10 inch tilapia as well as the plecos. They're probably fine to eat but I don't like fish that much.

by **gumbii** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 7:53 am

tilapia is delicious... but i wouldn't eat it from any LA dump AKA a lake...

and you can't eat a pleco... there isn't much meat in they...

by **Snowboss4492** » Sat Jul 05, 2008 11:31 am

im not a fish eater either................make mine red meat .............and yeah G...seems like a lot of work cleaning them the get just a little bit o meat

by **Peterkarig3210** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 4:35 am

God knows. All I know is that they were intending on eating them. The plecos looked exactly the size and type of common pleco I have, 8 inches and a few of em.

I've had Trader Joes tilapia filets and they are pretty tasty that way.

by **gumbii** » Sun Jul 06, 2008 9:47 pm

seafood is my favorite food... if it came from the ocean, i will try to eat it... lol...

i've had just about everything there is to eat from the ocean... even sea turtles... they're delicious... especially the eggs...

by **Peterkarig3210** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 3:19 am

You're a nut Gumbii. I thought I was excentric.

by **Serial324556** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 5:28 am

I'll try anything once...But any raw seafood I will never touch. I've seen too many television shows about parasites.
Anyways that's crazy about the plecos in LA. Imagine the damage I could with releasing my Toadfish into the Hudson River.

by **Snowboss4492** » Mon Jul 07, 2008 10:38 pm

the PCB's would kill him .............OR.......turn him into a low budget movie monster.......lol

Plecos in LA park lake

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