01-09-2003, 07:57 PM
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wading on the lakes fishing I have been the targed of fish as a source of dinner, that is my hairs on my toes were mistaked for fish food by gills. although anoying they are relentless in their persute in pulling out them hairs, cant even kick them gills away once they take a notion that you are food.
every once in a while they would get a good hold and snatch one. and thus I am reminded of the monster I once saw that lives in the lake here out behind my house.
Gigantic in size dark in color and its steth is unmached by any thing in the water. Two huge black beady eyes bulging out of its almost a foot in diamiter head stared gloomingly at me on a worm summer nite with a cold and still hungry look after feasting upon about 80 some odd fish from my stringer with smoke blowing from his nostrils.
this was the case about 25 years ago when I first moved on to this lake. I have yet to see him again and not sure that I want to. when he turn to go away from me he made a swell about the size of a V.W. Beatle hood.
by now if you have not yet guessed what this sea monster was, it was the nemisest of the deap. it was the Aligater Snapping Turtle. I have seen them as big around as a 55 gallon drum but this one dwarft any turtle I have ever seen in fresh water.
the thought of him grabbing a hair on the end of my big toe would resulte in the loss of me and my tube. He could pull me and a tube streight down and hold me there for days before he decided to start chewing.
I have caught turtles on hook and line and they are a riot to catch. a fight unmached by any fish this critter will go streat down to the bottom of the lake and grab hold of any vegitation or debre and just walk with your line. Its all you can do to just hold on with your pole bent in half and your line shreeking in the wind and your reel smoking from the labor of trying to hold back these monsters.
I have seen the kids screaming and fleeing from the beaches in terror when these eating factories venture up to shore. In comparison to those actors of them Jaws movies, they were pailing in comparison to the terror I saw on the faces of those children. The 4-5 food carp scaired the children too.
There is still not much known about what is on the bottom of these deap fresh water lakes, or the caverns that run from lake to lake.
I still hear stories about divers that go down and never come back up. Last year we had a diver go down over on orchard lake about 8 miles from me. He is still missing. he wasnt alone when he went down he just disabeared from beside the other divers. the county mariner divers searched for weeks with no luck, they even attempted to drag the lake in hopes to hook in to the life line that was attached to him with no luck. the body was never recovered.
this story ran on the local news for about a month.
some times even the buddy system fales, but at least we know that he wasn't grabed by killer clones from outerspace.
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every once in a while they would get a good hold and snatch one. and thus I am reminded of the monster I once saw that lives in the lake here out behind my house.
Gigantic in size dark in color and its steth is unmached by any thing in the water. Two huge black beady eyes bulging out of its almost a foot in diamiter head stared gloomingly at me on a worm summer nite with a cold and still hungry look after feasting upon about 80 some odd fish from my stringer with smoke blowing from his nostrils.
this was the case about 25 years ago when I first moved on to this lake. I have yet to see him again and not sure that I want to. when he turn to go away from me he made a swell about the size of a V.W. Beatle hood.
by now if you have not yet guessed what this sea monster was, it was the nemisest of the deap. it was the Aligater Snapping Turtle. I have seen them as big around as a 55 gallon drum but this one dwarft any turtle I have ever seen in fresh water.
the thought of him grabbing a hair on the end of my big toe would resulte in the loss of me and my tube. He could pull me and a tube streight down and hold me there for days before he decided to start chewing.
I have caught turtles on hook and line and they are a riot to catch. a fight unmached by any fish this critter will go streat down to the bottom of the lake and grab hold of any vegitation or debre and just walk with your line. Its all you can do to just hold on with your pole bent in half and your line shreeking in the wind and your reel smoking from the labor of trying to hold back these monsters.
I have seen the kids screaming and fleeing from the beaches in terror when these eating factories venture up to shore. In comparison to those actors of them Jaws movies, they were pailing in comparison to the terror I saw on the faces of those children. The 4-5 food carp scaired the children too.
There is still not much known about what is on the bottom of these deap fresh water lakes, or the caverns that run from lake to lake.
I still hear stories about divers that go down and never come back up. Last year we had a diver go down over on orchard lake about 8 miles from me. He is still missing. he wasnt alone when he went down he just disabeared from beside the other divers. the county mariner divers searched for weeks with no luck, they even attempted to drag the lake in hopes to hook in to the life line that was attached to him with no luck. the body was never recovered.
this story ran on the local news for about a month.
some times even the buddy system fales, but at least we know that he wasn't grabed by killer clones from outerspace.
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