What is the name of the silver fish @ 0:16 seconds?

they're in all the waters here in MIchigan. Not so sure about the inland lakes, but they're in the rivers and creeks, as I catch them in my minnow traps

they say the smallmouth loves to eat them

My son holds the record in Wisconsin for the largest round goby caught in Manitowoc county.

Thats not true , both drum and shellcrackers eat them , and the smallmouth fishing is better due do the gobies , and the lake is much cleaner due to the zebra mussels , and although the do hurt the environment some they help in other ways . Two sides of the coin, tell both sides.

"you have to throw it back immediately"... What you are you crazy? Kill them. I remember fishing once as a teenager and catching dozens of them in one day.

Seagulls

Yeah, I usually feed him sequels

So many absolutely, why not kill them instead of releasing them back has me puzzled though and the size I've read is up to 6 inches. Thanks for this information.

Wait....if they're invasive then why do we have to throw them back.

So as soon as you catch one put a hook through its back tail and theow it back in to catch a much bigger fish 😂😂😂

I catch them here in Pennsylvania, i take them home with me and feed them to my ornate bichir

I remember having a family member who caught Round Goby that was almost a foot long. Probably the biggest Ive ever seen

Yeah I throw them back. But not before spiking em off the dock as hard as I possibly can. The gulls love it they swoop up the floating carcass.

They're pretty good deep fried as is! No gutting and cleaning necessary

I use them as bait

Idc if they’re invasive or not the bass get huge off them

I’ve caught one of these in person they are SO COOL. It was like, 3 inches of bright colors on a simple creek fish!

Nice!

I seen these in the Beer Garden in Milwaukee, Wisconsin pooled up in the River that I am assuming feeds into the Great Lakes.

The big problem with the Goby is that theu steal your bait whwn perch fishong in Lake Erie. I loose more worms to those things than anything else.

Humans ruined the great lakes, the native people was one with nature until Europeans arrived n killed off the Indians

Wait I’m confused it’s an invasive species but you throw it back? 😂

So these are invasive types and people still have to throw them into the water?

What if in hatcheries you taught walleye and pike to eat this fish

I thought hou were supposed to kill it if you caught one

IM NOT TELLING BUT I KNOW WHERE TO CATCH MORE NORTHERN SUNFISH!

I caught one on a river in the U.P. far inland from Lake Superior, this was like 6 years ago too...

Is that a white-winged scoter at 0:51?

Why do you have to throw them back immediately? Wouldn’t you want to kill it if it’s invasive?

"Not our fault the other fish were pvssies."---Gobi

Swear there are more Gobies in the Great Lakes than there are mosquitoes flying around them

i fish in the kalamazoo river and sometimes i have to move from my spot because it's all i get are gobies and they keep taking my night crawlers.

Invasive species lol The great lakes are a fucked up soup of non native species anymore. I gave up fishing MI because of this BS.

nope. the fish learned to eat them

I think they actually made the fisheries on the Great Lakes much better. Bigger fish and much more plentiful. I think the numerous invasive mussel species are probably much worse.

I wish we had these here in Wisconsin but they'd probably all get shot by bow hunters

The last time I fished Lake Michigan in Milwaukee Harbor every time a nightcrawler hit the bottom I had a goby. I caught one hundred of them and have never bottom fished Lake Michigan ever again.

2 comments re the Round Goby- 1 Beautiful? NOT. 2 When I catch one, I kill it. Period. I'm sure that the scientists have their reasons, but I don't care.

Cool video. Great food for many thriving Lake Michigan species

Temporally. Their one word and your video is unnecessary

People destroy everything. Gotta get the population back up

Goby being bottom dwellers eat the eggs of other fish.

Throw a crawfish trap.

THROW IT BACK??? I've always been instructed to leave the Fers on the pier to die.

ALL PREDATOR FISH LOVE GOBIES IT LIKE EATING A JELLY BEAN ORV ECLAIR!!

The fish in our Lake Simcoe are gorging on these and getting huge.

I’ve used these little bastards as cut bait before and caught a few bass & cats

I live Lake Erie and yes it is true that due to the Lake Erie water snake eating the round goby, it is no longer on the endangered species list. We have always heard that a great deal of Lake Erie's cleaning process, came from the zebra muscles, another invasive species. The cleaner water, increased our perch and walleye population. Recently, the amount of perch that a fisherman can take per day, has been decreased. A few years ago, I was at East Harbor State Park and spoke with a few fisherman. They commented that in the Sandusky Bay, they catch more small mouth bass, than perch or walleye. They attributed this to a dirtier lake, because the round goby is eating the zebra muscle. Their opinion was that dirty water was a better ecosystem for small mouth than perch and walleye. I don't know if this is true. My question is that if the food chain/web is zebra muscle<round goby<small mouth bass< human. Are we eating a dirty fish?

Are you stupid? You’re supposed to kill them?