The southern climate is mild, the waters are abundant, and the variety of wild fish is at the forefront of the country. However, many Netizens in Yunnan recently reported that they caught a strange "snakehead fish" while fishing, which is very strange and seems to have never been seen before.
When fishing in the river, they are often encountered chasing small fish on the surface of the water. At first, I thought it was a black fish, but when I caught it, I found that the head of the fish was like a snake, and the color on the body was not black..." A fishing enthusiast in Baoshan posted that when he was fishing in a large local river, he had recently caught this strange fish frequently, the size of a small finger, and the big one was four or five pounds. However, regardless of their size, these fish are very fierce, and they struggle wildly after being hooked, and the momentum is amazing!
These fish do look a lot like native blackfish (also called wealth fish, mullet). However, people who have caught blackfish can see the difference between the two fish at a glance - the fish caught by Baoshan' fishing friend are obviously closer to turquoise in color, and the head is more pointed, more like a snake!
Not blackfish, so what kind of fish are these "snakehead fish"? Originally, this was an exotic species called the southern snakehead (blackfish scientific name snakehead). Southern snakehead and blackfish belong to the same family of fish, but southern snakeheads are more ferocious than blackfish, and their muscle strength and bite force are stronger than those of blackfish. Because it is very similar to blackfish, many people may think of it as a kind of blackfish.