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[gene roberts]

Yall know those nuts "Buckeyes"?There is a way to mix them with something that paralyzes fish.I'm not planning on doing this but if I were in the wild and needed food quick(in a survival situation),I might need the recipe.

[leapingbare]

ArrowAirum  I'm Sheree i spelled that wrong but if you mash the roots and stalks of the arrowairum plant and put it in stagnant water the fish will get drunk and belly up.  i swear I've never done this

[Hillbilly]

Black walnut bark and hulls work too, not as toxic to people, either.

[Dingleberry]

I was in South America on a fish research expedition and witnessed the locals (native amerindians) collect fish by treating the water with a local toxin.  The plant, barbasco or hyaline, essentially has the same chemistry as rotenone, which is currently used to stun fish for collection and to also eradicate invasives.  Like Hillbilly said, black walnut is supposed to work.

[mullet]

  The berries on Wax Myrtles were used down here. Crushed in a burlap bag and weighted down with a rock.So I was told

[Pat B]

Jonathan, I believe rotenone coats the gills and prevents the fish from breathing but doesn't effect the flesh. I had to dig deep in my brain to find that info so it might be flawed.       Pat

[gene roberts]

Thanks

[Ryan_Gill_HuntPrimitive]

i thought you mixed them with dynomite

[bowmunky13]

yeah... dynomite is good... but ifn ya got some bread crumbs... an m80 works just as well when they are in a large group and you drop it right as the fuse hits the plastic

[Justin Snyder]

Actually Pat, when the local game and fish was using it on my property they said it removes the free oxygen from the water, and its not supposed to hurt amphibians. Funny thing is all of a sudden we didn't have any more frogs.  They use it to kill the fish that compete with the woundfin minnow because its endangered.  They don't try to keep from killing the freaking minnow when they treat the water though.  Got to keep them endangered to keep your job I guess.  Justin

[Pat B]

Justin, now that you mentioned it that is what I remember about rotenone too. A friend was with the GA G&F and would use rotenone or shock boats to do striped bass counts in the coastal GA rivers.
Larry would always save the nice "eatin' size" fish for supper.      Pat