Monday, April 19, 2010

Huge Hank, Big Joe, or any other cool name for a mythical fish.

Today I was out on one of my "training" paddles with the Kayak. I'm training for a Triathlon where the first leg is Kayaking.
I noticed some remains of a good sized fish along the shore by a rock. See the bones? I have the bones circled in red....click on the picture to enlarge it.

Well, lets get closer and see if we can identify these fish bones by the rock. Wait! What the?!?
Is that? Whaa!! Sheesch! Mother of Pearl!! That's not a rock by fish bones....that's the rest of the fish!!
This is the biggest fish I've seen in person in the wild! Check it out!!
Still don't have a good feel for the perspective? I'll go pet it so you can see my hand near it. (No petting actually occurred, there were flys and decay happening)
That is one big fish. A bullhead? Whiskers would know.
And wouldn't you know it....the dang thing still had some life left in it's corpse....it tried to eat my foot!
Too bad I didn't find this behemoth before the critters ate his lower half and tail. I think it's impressive enough.
So who is coming to swim in the lake with me? What? I'm pretty sure if there is another one this size it could only inhale most of your leg.

4 comments:

Mindy said...

totally gross. Count me out of the swimming! blech!

mr.master said...

That's a big fish!

Anonymous said...

Meow....now thats a clue!

Laurie said...

Before I came in here to make a comment I was thinking "you'll never get Kelli to do water sports on THAT lake!!"