Every once in a while you come across something or someone so intriguing it's almost a mystery to yourself as to how this existed without you having knlowedge of it. The Big Toman also known as the Giant Snake Head is one serious fish.
It's Origin lies in South east Asia as well as having been distributed to other areas such as Singapore. These fish are large vicious fighting fish that are considered excellent sport and even better eating. These fish can grow to as large as 5 ft. They have large powerful jaws lined with what look like really sharp ass teeth.
In recent years it's very close relative the Northern Snakehead was found in a Maryland pond, an actual colony of them. They basically nuked the pond killing over a thousand young Snakehead that had taken over the pond!
This article is Is from 2002, the dangers of the snakehead in non native waters even then was a frightful thought.
In 2003 a Giant Snakehead was caught in Janesville, Wisconsin
It can live out of water for up to 4 days at a time and travels from pond to pond preying on all manner of fish and decimating local populations.
To make matters worse, the snakehead has no known natural predators in U.S waters. I wonder if a fresh water otter or a beaver could take one down.
