These fish are highly aggressive, invasive and eat other native fish eggs. Encouraged to kill after catching. I dropped my line in a spot and got a bite within 10 seconds. Simple drop shot right, size 8 hook. Chunk of Bar-S Classic Franks as bait, carefully covered hook tip to ensure it didn’t get caught on reeds. Happy to answer any questions.
How do you kill it?
It looks to be about the size of a panfish, did you measure it before tossing? How was the fight to reel it in?
Looking at the second pic, a Bar S hot dog is ~20mm in diameter, and that fish appears to be about 5 hot dog sections long, so I’d say it’s like 90-110mm long so roughly 4 inches in Imperial.
About 5 inches, pretty small. A really strong strike initially, then kind of gave up as I reeled it up.
Curious about using hot dogs as bait. Do you use it for other kinds of fish, or just gobies?
I just got back into fishing this week. Specifically went out to target the round goby, which it clearly loves. So all I can say for sure is that hot dogs work very well for round gobies. Haven’t caught anything else yet.
In the first pic it looks a bit like that one dispatched itself ^^’
Side note:
Those guys are edible and actually tasty. I usually either deep-fry them whole (panko crust is optional) or cook them and mush them into fish patties. In my eyes its always best to not let go to waste what you kill.
Greetings from Europe where various pontocaspic gobies have become a nuisance as well.
I’ve read that they can accumulate certain toxins like PCB, particularly in Lake Michigan, so I’m not going to be eating any. I think my plan is to catch, kill, and toss them out.
I’ve fished off the jettys north of Loyola and caught nothing but these little bastards. They’ve replaced all the native fish in the area.
I think it depends on the rig you’re using. If you’re trying drop shot these will hit the bait almost instantly if any are near.
I usually just throw a worm on one of these and go for whatever panfish are hugging structure.
I’m a Michigander. These bad boys are everywhere. I’ve literally caught hundreds of these. Toss them to the gulls.
I’ve read that botulism can harm birds if they eat these, the best option for me I think is to put them in the trash bin nearby because I can’t really dig a hole and bury them.
One time when I was like 19 I dipped bread in whiskey and fed it to a seagull. It couldn’t walk straight and had a hard time flying.
Hindsight being 20/20 that was a rotten thing to do, yes. But that seagull had a rad fuckin day, boy.