People who fish: what the heck is this?

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I'll go with Moray or other eel - dried up, flattened a bit, chewed on considerably. No idea how it could be there - maybe an aquarium pet that got dumped into a lake by someone that didn't know any different?

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I have no idea, but I hope I never meet a girl who reminds me of it.

Edit to add: Maybe it's a scaly man-fish.

Blues,
Dave

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I'll go with Moray or other eel - dried up, flattened a bit, chewed on considerably. No idea how it could be there - maybe an aquarium pet that got dumped into a lake by someone that didn't know any different?

Good guess, but I seriously doubt that a moray could survive in fresh water.

It certainly looks like an eel, but those teeth are not characteristic of any freshwater eels in North America...which is why I find this so puzzling.

Speaking of ugly fish, here's a video of a fossil shark, caught off the coast of Japan. Fascinating...

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I have no idea, but I hope I never meet a girl who reminds me of it.

Edit to add: Maybe it's a scaly man-fish.

Blues,
Dave

He obviously lost the Funk!

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Good guess, but I seriously doubt that a moray could survive in fresh water.

Eels are extraordinarily durable and have been able to survive in brackish water for very long periods. I have no doubt that one could survive a few days or maybe even weeks in fresh water, but I don't think the original article claimed that it came from the lake - it may have been dragged by a raccoon out of someone's fish tank.

Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

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>>Maybe it's a scaly man-fish.


Imagine having to go through life with a face like that, where would you get a job? except for maybe the Department of Motor Vehicles.

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You should include Do Not Open While Eating Your Lunch

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>>Maybe it's a scaly man-fish.


Imagine having to go through life with a face like that, where would you get a job? except for maybe the Department of Motor Vehicles.

OHmigod I had that lady last time I renewed my license!

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>>OHmigod I had that lady last time I renewed my license!

hehehe

It would be a good face for a judge as well.

Beware of the collateralizing and monetization of your desires.
D S #3.1415

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I have no idea, but I hope I never meet a girl who reminds me of it.

Edit to add: Maybe it's a scaly man-fish.

Blues,
Dave

. . . and a downstairs mixup!

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

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Good guess, but I seriously doubt that a moray could survive in fresh water.

It doesn't look like this one did either.

I'm not usually into the whole 3-way thing, but you got me a little excited with that. - Skymama
BTR #1 / OTB^5 Official #2 / Hellfish #408 / VSCR #108/Tortuga/Orfun

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Please post update if the biologists figure it out.

Curiosity finally got the better of me, and I emailed the biologist:

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Well Kris it is a lake trout aka mackinaw. ...Last week that was verified through genetic DNA analysis.

Thanks

Craig J Schaugaard
NRO Regional Aquatic Program Manager

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Curiosity finally got the better of me, and I emailed the biologist:

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Well Kris it is a lake trout aka mackinaw. ...Last week that was verified through genetic DNA analysis.

Thanks

Craig J Schaugaard
NRO Regional Aquatic Program Manager

I love it!

I e-mail curiosity questions all the time. I get an answer 50% of the time. I LOVE it when I get an answer.

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Curiosity finally got the better of me, and I emailed the biologist:

Nice Good detective work. This one was bugging me, too.

Trapped on the surface of a sphere. XKCD

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Please post update if the biologists figure it out.

Curiosity finally got the better of me, and I emailed the biologist:

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Well Kris it is a lake trout aka mackinaw. ...Last week that was verified through genetic DNA analysis.

Thanks

Craig J Schaugaard
NRO Regional Aquatic Program Manager

I find that hard to beleive. Your government at work protecting you, "No need to alarm the common folk with the truth."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lake_trout
I still say it looks like a run over snake fish.

I'm a biologist and we have been telling people here in SC for years that, "no, that was not a mountain lion you saw." Because then there would be land restrictions, etc. and some folks would start hunting them.

Give one city to the thugs so they can all live together. I vote for Chicago where they have strict gun laws.