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[Matt DeLaVega]

http://helenair.com/...c46faae674.html

 

What the heck?

[Matt DeLaVega]

Think.

[littlen]

I personally subscribe to the "they flew in" camp.

[mattknepley]

Looks like a green sunfish hybrid to me... Green Shark eat all the fishes!

[zooxanthellae]

[Chasmodes]

Eggs stocked off of birds legs. 

[centrarchid]

April Fools I bet.  A couple details seem tremendously exaggerated.  Small shark captured / pictured would not require an hour to get in not would be large enough to be pregnant.  Eating lots of livestock also not probable.

[centrarchid]

It plausible shark could swim up Missouri from confluents with Mississippi where they are known from.

[Matt DeLaVega]

I am guessing that due to the date, that this is April fools.

[zooxanthellae]

I am guessing that due to the date, that this is April fools.

April 01, 2015 12:00 am  •  ROD N. HOOK Independent Rekord

 

Lets not overlook the author either!  

[Matt DeLaVega]

April 01, 2015 12:00 am  •  ROD N. HOOK Independent Rekord

 

Lets not overlook the author either!

 

Yes. The author. Kind of wish this was real. Would be really interesting.

[Betta132]

There was a River Monsters episode where the guy was a few hundred miles inland and caught a little baby bull shark. He's quite certain they're breeding in rivers. Which is both awesome and terrifying.

[lilyea]

Seeing this apparent April Fools article reminded me of the Bulk Reef Supply advertisement (also April Fools) for coral seeds that could be planted in saltwater or freshwater and would grow into full corals - only $0.99 but out of stock.  Too good to be true, but what if...?

[don212]

seems like prepwork for a monsterfish sequel, there's an awful lot of hype and untruth in that show, killerpike, dangerous gar etc

[Betta132]

Dangerous gar? Now I know that can't be right... gator gar are docile, by all credible accounts, and about the only other gar I can think of are pretty small. Dangerous to a little fish, maybe, or to a finger. 

Edited by Betta132, 04 April 2015 - 08:26 PM.

[don212]

not on monsterfish

[Mysteryman]

Bull Sharks are well known for living in fresh water. The Zambezi Shark is just a Bull that stays in that Zambezi River, and the Lake Nicaragua Shark is a totally freshwater Bull Shark population completely cut off from the ocean.

Honestly, I'd be more surprised to find that the Mississippi/Missouri system did NOT contain any Bulls.

[smbass]

I don't think anyone doubts that they are in the Mississippi/lower Missouri but probably not in Montana.

[Chasmodes]

Here is the follow up Article

 

http://helenair.com/...2459ef6379.html

[killier]

When I was in Nicaragua last year, most people believed that the freshwater shark population had either been fished out or migrated to the salty side of the lake. The other large rivers and lakes connected to lake Nicaragua including lake Managua were never known to have the sharks.