Fishing for piranha

Fishing for piranha

David Sparks Ph.D.
David Sparks Ph.D.
Fishing guide Denis Isbister has spent his whole life devoted to fishing. In this episode he was on a trip down in Columbia fishing for... "Tell me about the fishing for piranha. We were dragging plugs. In those rivers they actually have a black piranha that gets pretty big like three or 4 pounds. How do they fight? Kind of like a perch. They don't fight crazy hard. They do a lot of wiggling and thrashing around but when you bring them in, you actually hold their lips open with a pair of pliers and their jaws are snap snap snapping at you with those big teeth. They are pretty good eating. White, flaky meat, somebody made soup out of them and it was actually pretty good. So you fish all over the world? Yes and I wanted to do something different than the TV fishermen you see catching bass or walleye or whatever. I wanted to do something bigger and better so I did a TV show called Wild fish wild places.
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