Also, when in Cozumel, did some snorkeling in their clear waters and could see huge shapes on the bottom, not exactly inspiring
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Fishing Pics
- Thread starter BigRedMax
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Yep....no thanks. I'm from SW Nebraska and I knew some rescue (PD) divers who would periodically train off the damn at Lake McConaughy. They said the same thing. "Big Things" down there they didn't want any part of.
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Osprey, not eagle. Eagle would have had no problem
People love to turn this photo into something more than it is...“Twenty-four feet.”“Two thousand pounds.”“River monster.”It doesn’t need any of that.This photograph is real. The men are real. The fish is real. And it is almost certainly a white sturgeon, a genuine living fossil yanked from a North American river at a time when those rivers still flowed the way rivers are meant to flow. Was it 24 feet long? Probably not. That number gets tossed around because old photos lie a little. Perspective stretches things. Water hides scale. A more honest estimate is somewhere in the 14 to 18 foot range which is still absurd by today’s standards. Still something most people alive now will never see in the wild.There was a time when creatures like this weren’t legends. They were problems. They tore nets. They sank boats. They showed up uninvited. Fishermen didn’t marvel at them; they dealt with them.
This has been my fish of choice as of late - gar. They put up a heckuva fight. They can grow to be HUGE and I've seen some giants in the bayou near my house but I haven't been able to land one yet.
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This has been my fish of choice as of late - gar. They put up a heckuva fight. They can grow to be HUGE and I've seen some giants in the bayou near my house but I haven't been able to land one yet.
Imagine taking a dip with your honey and that thing swims by?
Call 911.....cardiac arrest.
They're actually not aggessive towards humans. They look vicious, but they're not. However, if you land one, be prepared to fight. They have a very bony head and will do everything they can to get off the hook. In addition, their scales are like armor and you have to use a hatchet to hack through, and then use tin shears to cut it. Prehistoric. Most people avoid them because they're very hard to clean.
