Spare a thought:

 

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/10234986/Swedish-men-told-to-beware-testicle-munching-fish.html#disqus_thread

 

-Andrew

Nasty :scared:

Oh *****cks....I eat those...

That's a load of *****cks! Pacu would freeze to death in Sweden for starters over the winter. Secondly they are almost exclusively vegitarian, if they went for balls its only because its mistaken identity for the fruits/nuts floating about.

Also if you can't tell the difference between a pacu and a piranha from the outside you need your eyes tested, they roughly 3 times the size as an adult, jet black and well the facial structure is wrong. Even as juv's they're are significantly different.

Another reference their (occasional) diet:

 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2079498/British-angler-Jeremy-Wade-snares-fish-killed-2-men-biting-testicles.html

 

-Andrew

That's a load of *****cks! Pacu would freeze to death in Sweden for starters over the winter. Secondly they are almost exclusively vegitarian, if they went for balls its only because its mistaken identity for the fruits/nuts floating about.

Also if you can't tell the difference between a pacu and a piranha from the outside you need your eyes tested, they roughly 3 times the size as an adult, jet black and well the facial structure is wrong. Even as juv's they're are significantly different.

 

LOL, true - and why would those crazy Swedes go bathing without trunks anyway....:lol:

I've worked with Pacu before, some monstrous ones... Nearly a metre in length and almost half a metre in body depth. They are big cumbersome and get wipped up pretty easy. Jeremy wade the other article is about, makes a great adventure programme but its an adventure programme not an angling programme, John Wilson fished for Pacu in one of this fishing adventures episodes, they were catching them on cubes of mellon for a laugh on the jetty in front the hotel. They are hardly a intense finicky and tasking game fish.

From experience of working with them, and watching them destroy Iceberg lettuce and tomatoes, they get wound up quick as they are very greedy. I wouldn't trust my plums floating around when they are hungry, look too much like grapes esp to a dumbass vegetarian that's whipped up in a feeding frenzie.

The amazon is full of nasties, some very big some very little. Pacu though are not on my list of things id like to avoid, I honestly think the ball incidents are simply accidents by a dim fish. Not a sly predator that is seeking out tastey sweedish balls lol.

I've worked with Pacu before, some monstrous ones... Nearly a metre in length and almost half a metre in body depth. They are big cumbersome and get wipped up pretty easy. Jeremy wade the other article is about, makes a great adventure programme but its an adventure programme not an angling programme, John Wilson fished for Pacu in one of this fishing adventures episodes, they were catching them on cubes of mellon for a laugh on the jetty in front the hotel. They are hardly a intense finicky and tasking game fish.

From experience of working with them, and watching them destroy Iceberg lettuce and tomatoes, they get wound up quick as they are very greedy. I wouldn't trust my plums floating around when they are hungry, look too much like grapes esp to a dumbass vegetarian that's whipped up in a feeding frenzie.

The amazon is full of nasties, some very big some very little. Pacu though are not on my list of things id like to avoid, I honestly think the ball incidents are simply accidents by a dim fish. Not a sly predator that is seeking out tastey sweedish balls lol.

 

I agree mate. It's the canderu (sp?) that would worry me...