Paddle Fish Found In Lake Wawasee, Indiana

[field989]

i read this in "Indiana outdoor news" website is -IndianaoutdoorNews.net- if u want to find more info


a dead paddle fish was found dead in lake wawasee, it was believed to weigh 100lbs with a girth of 38" and it was 64" in length it was believed that the fish died sometime over memorial day weekend and there was cuts down its back (from a boat running over it) it is still unknown if there is a established population of paddle fishes there the fish was said to be quite old according to a bioliogist



just figured id share it with u guys... pretty interresting eh




Jeff

[astutzman]

was that lake made by damming up a river? i thought paddlefish were strictly river fish. sounds pretty neat though.

[field989]

well it says there were no records of them ever being in there naturally

but yes quite interresting

id probabaly say someone put it in there

[dcaruthers]

I caught a 42 pounder a month ago in the Alabama river and didn't know what the heck it was. The reserch I read reported that they only are found in the Alabama and Missouri river systems and are protected because they were almost fished out of existence (roe and meat). I didn't know they were in lakes too. Man they are a very beautiful fish. I pulled mine up tail first and thought I had caught a bull shark.

[catseeman]

I belive this is a natual lake. mother nature somtimes stocks fish where they weren't before. Someone my have stocked it for weed control. I know some old timers that used to do this in lakes. It may have been a very lonely fish for a long time.

[PeZ]

they are abundant in oklahoma on the arkansaw river its even legal to snag them in certain places i seen a guy snag a 140+ pounder below keystone dam one night he took a picture of it and released it because its illegal below keystone its there breeding ground there