Lake Monsters in the Great Lakes?

Dave Paulides of missing 411 fame and also Jeremy Wade, of river mobsters fame. Get on those two. Two seemingly opposing views of the world and yet there IS overlap.

River monsters*

Its very possible there are portals on or above the water of the Great Lakes, and what is being seen is actually from a different time. Just saying...

Earth and the solar syatem move constantly though and huge distances are covered in a single day. Going back in time would land you in space if you cleared the earth and any rocks etc. Luckily spacetime as a concept is totally wrong. There is no time.

Grew up n the finger lakes region. Fished them all for over 30 years.

There are some lunkers, for sure. Caught some myself.

"Monsters" though? Uhh, no. Any fisherman worth his salt would laugh in your face at the mention of any lake monster. They simply don't exist.

Oh and Nessy was proven to simply be a group of sturgeon. And how long was that bullshit story of the loch ness monster been told.

Lake Michigan for sure has something down there. If Loch Ness and these other puddle lakes have something then the Big Blue does for sure.

Yes the Great Lakes triangle exists !!!

The level of ignorance displayed here is appalling.

So, because you or your cronies have never seen such a thing, they don’t exist.

Go back to swilling cheap beer and gutting fish, and leave the mysteries of the planet to others.

It’s for the best. You couldn’t handle the truth.

Yes, real mermaids aren’t the lovely, half-human females popular culture, as popular culture depicts them, but much more like what was in that clipping. They’re from the same source as lake and sea monsters, and just as diabolical.

1. I don't drink.
2. Bet you couldn't gut a fish if your life depended on it.

How about you go back to trying to convince people that the blurry picture of a log you have is bigfoot, and crawl back in your faraday caged bed with you tin foil nightcap on and get some rest.

1. Dope, then?
2. Fished all my life, son.

You need to get out more.

I was fishing Lake St Clair in MI about 20 years ago with my buddy who was part of the Bassmasters. He would put us on small mouth beds where we would jig and hook small mouth. Fun to catch...

We switched to spinners and I attached a "Big-un" spinner bait - I think that was the brand - to my line. I hooked into something in deeper water. I thought I had snagged a log as the line was just dragged to the bottom and my pole was bent. It slowly let "loose" and what rose to the surface was a huge "log" bigger then the 20' bass boat were were on. I went to try and unhook my spinner lure and only then did I realize it was a fish!! My bassmaster buddy was at the front of the boat watching. When he realized what it was he dropped his pole, said "Holy shit!!" and turned to come to the back of the boat. The fish made a huge roll, snapped the line and was gone!

I will never forget that experience!

You sure like to project there kiddo. I guarantee I have been "out" longer than you have been alive. So shut you little pie hole and go see if mommy has warmed your hot cocoa yet.

a "starbucks" syrene.

lures men into her trap through seduction, then eats them.

enjoy your coffee at the sign of the witch

I lived Canada Side lake Superior my whole life, though I haven't seen anything, we do have pictographs that talk about a lake monster/serpent that protects the lake, Mishipeshu.


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For the record, I am an extremely experienced fisherman, Great Lakes, Florida Keys billfish, etc., and have caught almost everything that swims. Here is my story.

I was fishing in Lake St Clair, at the mouth of the Detroit river. I was in waders fishing a rockpile off a park that is in the area. We were casting bomber minnows, and often caught walleye this time of year at night.

This night it was absolutely dead calm, not a ripple, dead, dead calm. I could hear noises across the lake from Canada, miles away. We basically figured out after a while, the fish would not bite until a wave came buy to stir things up. So, we would wait for a boat, freighter wave, whatever to roll in, and when they did, we would cast as fast as we could and almost always hook up. The fish were waiting for the minnows to get stirred up. Well, that is a side story, the fishing part.

The monster part is this. I was standing in the water, casting during one of those dead calm periods, just to try and do something, even though no wave was on the way. Like I said, so calm, and the lake can carry voices for miles on nights like this. Well, I heard something off of what I would guess was somewhere near the tip of Peche Island. Hard to describe with words, but I will try.

I heard a splash. It sounded like somebody dropped a car from 20 feet above the water. It was like a big fawooooomp, and then a lingering after splash. The aftersplash lasted for I would say 7 seconds.

Well, it was 30 years ago, but I remember it clearly and I guarantee, it happened, witnessed by the 2 of us, something we will never forget.

If I had to guess, it was one of two things. I have heard stories of catfish in that area. There is a deep spot called the sturgeon hole there, so of course, sturgeon are there too. I have heard of divers saying they almost swam into the mouth of what they at first thought was a cave, but it was actually a catfish, so big, it was like a cave. No rod and real is going to land one of them they would say, and it as more than one diver thru the years telling the same tale, so the story goes.

So imho, it was either a giant catfish, or a giant sturgeon that I would guess from the splash would be over 2000 pounds. Catfish rarely jump, and sturgeon do often, so my guess, a 2000 pound 15-20 foot long sturgeon.

Actually, White Sturgeon, the most common across North America, are known to grow up to about 19 3/4 feet, and over a ton in weight (1400lb.) I assume those would be the ones that are over 100 years old.

Interesting read for you...


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That’s awesome! Any guesses about what it was?

Amazing story thank you for typing that up and sharing.

Do you think there were larger populations of these mega fish 100 years ago?

Maybe the Great Lakes but not the small inland lakes that the articles back in the day wrote about. That seems unlikely

How could a salt water creature make it in a freshwater lake??

Yes there are beasts from eons ago that survived the earth changes and dwell in freshwater habitats. “Life….ah….. finds a way” as a famous scientist once said.

There is a second part to the article now out:

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What about that video from Florida of that “sea monster” attacking a manatee?

Heading to the beach.
Keeping my eyes peeled.

Oh look, ignorance on parade. So how long have you been “out”?

You’re referring to the closet, of course...

The only thing I could think of it being was a Sturgeon. I can still see it in my mind all of these years later. It was cool and rather creepy at the same time.

I have spent my life on LSC, and know the history well. There are pictures of what looks like logs piled up on the bank of the Detroit River, but they were not logs, they were sturgeon, but they used to burn them like logs, circa end of the 19th century.

By the 60's, sturgeon, whitefish, and even the rare and seldom talked about Lake St Clair lake trout, were very rare or in the case of the trout, totally extirpated. The lake had a permanent population of lake trout once, you hever hear about, that was commercially fished out of existence.

I am happy to say, there are trout and salmon in the lake, at least at times now, whitefish are again spawning in the Detroit river,and maybe elsewhere, and there are a TON of sturgeon in the St Clair river, lake and Detroit river now.

As far as the question, where there bigger fish once. Almost certainly were more numbers of them in most cases, and old pics and reports of sturgeon in the 300 pound plus range, but as far as 2000 pounders, only undocumented stories of those huge ones, but I think they did, and still do exist. I heard that one 30 years ago per my story that sounded to me, and I am an engineer so pretty good at judging, to be in the 2000 pound or bigger range.

Another side story. I once was fishing in the indian reservation of the LSC delta. They had some gill nets in the Chematogan channel, and I and a buddy would pull them up to see what they were getting. It was like in March, so that time of year, besides the suckers and the like, there were many pike and steelhead. But one time, there was a net full of a fish, I had no idea what it was. I even called the DNR, but they blew it off as some crazy story, useless .gov as usual. Anyways, the fish was colored and striped exactly like a yellow perch, similar shape too and size, maybe a tad bigger, but it had a little sucker like mouth on the bottom of its face. The indians would not have been happy to see us messing with their nets, so we quickly plucked one out to see what it was, and took it home. Its flesh was not like a perch at all, it was very oily, so we did not try to cook it or anything, but it had that bright 2 tone green, with yellow and orange on the fins and belly.

I forget today what I figured it out to be exactly. I think I determined, some fish I think from Europe and Black Sea, like the now prevalent gobies, and there were hundreds of them in the nets that one day. I have never seen them again, and the DNR thought I was nuts, haha. So yes, there are many mysteries in those lakes, even until this day.