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CrispyQ

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15. Since you seem to be familiar with water & fish,

Thu Feb 13, 2014, 11:17 AM

Feb 2014

Years ago I saw something I've never seen before & have always wondered what caused it. There is a recreational trail that circles an irrigation lake near my house. The trail is just over a mile long. The city stocks the lake with fish eggs in the spring & people are allowed to fish.

One day, it was early summer & early in the morning, six or six thirty, the entire shore of the lake was teaming with fish. They were alive & looked fine, swimming around like crazy, but I've never seen anything like it. There weren't a lot of folks out at that time, but those that were, were just like me, agape at the site of all the fish by the shore.

Any ideas? My only thought is that maybe the city stocked it with live fish instead of eggs that year & they had just been released? It was a fascinating sight.

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So much for "Escape Plan A". Scuba Feb 2014 #1

No shit... awoke_in_2003 Feb 2014 #6

Awesome! CFLDem Feb 2014 #2

Wow impressive! gordianot Feb 2014 #3

I have personally seen a cotton mouthed moccasin climb up a leaning tree trunk on the underside of ladjf Feb 2014 #4

Even though the Naturalist denied that I guess we know better. gordianot Feb 2014 #8

Once while fishing, I saw a water snake crawl into a low overhanging bush with a small fish in ladjf Feb 2014 #9

Since you seem to be familiar with water & fish, CrispyQ Feb 2014 #15

Sorry, I don't have a theory about the situation you described. ladjf Feb 2014 #16

Thought I'd run it past you. CrispyQ Feb 2014 #17

The snake was either sunning himself or sleeping. ladjf Feb 2014 #10

I heard the story was common on the upper Jacks Fork in Missouri. gordianot Feb 2014 #11

My great uncle went fishing with a friend on a stocked tank Tyrs WolfDaemon Feb 2014 #12

I get along with Copperheads, even Rattle Snakes, and all reptiles. Cottonmouths I take measures. gordianot Feb 2014 #13

Uh, UT Knoxville Department of Psychology ???? eppur_se_muova Feb 2014 #5

Yep - lead author Vladimir Dinets muriel_volestrangler Feb 2014 #7

Ahhhh ... I assumed that *Human* psychology was implied ... apparently not. eppur_se_muova Feb 2014 #18

The croc in the tree does look quite pleased. CrispyQ Feb 2014 #14

There's a large varanid lizard that's sometimes known as a "tree crocodile" ... eppur_se_muova Feb 2014 #19