Frog eat frog world

As I have mentioned before, I do not like invasive species.  In our neck of the woods, the top ten are:

1. Zebra mussel, Quagga Mussel
2. Northern Snakehead
3. Asian Carp or Silver Carp, Bighead Carp
4. Chinese Mitten Crab
5. New Zealand Mud Snail
6. Rusty Crayfish, Red Swamp Crayfish
7. Oriental Weatherfish
8. Feral Swine or Wild Boar
9. Red Eared Slider, Common Snapping Turtle
10. American Bullfrog                                                                                           Learn more about them at:  www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/  

Anyway, they creep and they crawl and they munch and they crowd and they push all our little native guys aside and gobble the food and leave nastiness behind.  They are probably okay where they came from, but we are not prepared to deal with them here.  Some of them, I like to eat, like the bullfrog.  But, I would gladly forego the opportunity to harvest locally the occasional les cuisses de grenouilles in order to help out our natives, especially the Pacific chorus frog, which the bulls love to eat.

Late last summer, I was out fishing for bass in our pond and I caught a big ol' bullfrog.  What I love about it is that, nasty eating machine that he is, he got caught in a frog-eat-frog situation.  I was using a frog lure to fish, and that's what the monster gulped after!  Now, that is the code of the west at work!