Hi Guys just popped up in my mind and was wondering what are some of the weirdest inhabitants in your local lakes that you have seen? Snapping turtles? Eels? Oscars? Arowana? I ve had tilapias...Arowana...giant bright orange Kois...and a guy even told me he saw a long eel like fish about 6 foot long cruising in my local lake...

The wierdest thing i've seen is a 3 pound bass that tried to swallow a 2 pound bass. The fish both died like that and washed up on shore. Pretty mean bass!

calicokid

Once at buena vista lake I saw a huge blue catfish eat a duckling right in back of it's mother. Another time at the aquaduct a mouse was getting a mid-night drink and I tried to hook it for bait without touching it because of diseases and such. It got scared and started swimming across and sure enough what must have been a striper crushed him. Another time at the catfish derby at legg lake a guy caught what he thought was the biggest cat in the lake but it turned out to be a two and a half foot soft-shell turtle.
keep fishin'

I didn't personally see it...but quite a few years ago there was a alligator caught at San Vicente on a Zara Spook.

Well Lets see, I've seen Albino Catfish, Oscars, Koi, and I did hear about the Aligator at San V as well. I have also heard of some aligators in the Delta and even one at Mead a while back. But, I would have to say the weirdes thing would be the parana they caught out of Otay about 5 years or so ago. That and the rumor of a Peacock bass being caught out of Dixon would have to be the strangest things I Have seen in SD. All of these creatures must have been pets at one time and the owners just decided to let them go locally.


Another weird thing was the 3 1/2 lb bass that jumped into my boat in the last night tournament at Otay. Just as we were setting our rods down to move to another spot, we heard a noise and there was a fish flopping on the deck of my boat. At first we thought it was out of our liewell, since we had one in there allready. But my partner grabbed that fish and when I reached in the livewell, our fish was still in there. I guess you could say we were on them so good that they were jumping in the boat :)

Cam

By far, the weirdest thing I've seen in a lake is a strange looking brown object that floated by my boat at the last tournament. Not only did this thing have a strange look to it, but it was steaming as it lazily floated by us.

ive heard that in one of the local lake here where i live that there was a pacu, and a red belly perranha caught, from a trusted informant. who knows, when people get tired of there pets they just throw them any where, thats stupid, F's up the cycle. might as well, flush them or just pick up another hobby!!!!

Dude,

It must have been the last Casitas tourney! Was it approx. 12" in length X 3" diameter? Yep, i couldn't wait till the weigh inx( so i proceeded to do the unthinkable...sorry!:)

I've saw tons of weird things in lakes around. As teenagers we fished Green Valley Lake, and my buddy caught some dirty underwear. At Jenks Lake, I caught a basketfull of decomposing fish! WHEW DID THAT STINK!

I've heard of weird catches out of some of the bigger lakes like Perris, Silverwood and Big Bear as well, with Big Bear having the stories about the Alligators.

Tight Lines,
Jason Huckeba

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Naw really, i haven't really seen anything out of the ordinary at our local lakes, but, maybe 12 or so years ago i was surf fishing close to Ensenada and on my first cast i hooked a fresh Maxi Pad w/a super fresh red streak down the center! I should have known with that sickening stench in the air...their raw sewage dumps straight into the ocean!!! Needless to say i didn't keep anything that i caught.

Oh Yeah!!!!!!!!! I remember this one time, my ghetto park lake n snagged a 3ft garter snake that wuz swimming by me!!!!!!!!!!!! Didn't have any brown babies with it though!!!!!!!!!