water monsters close to you :)

worton[pl] · Post by **worton[pl]** » 03 Dec 2005, 20:06

Hey,

I really like to swim in the lakes I got a lot close to my city hehe but since today I will swim in plate armour :].

Scroll down a bit:
<a href="http://www.splawik.com.pl/POTWOR___1213">cute pike fish</a>

Regards.

bronzefry · Post by **bronzefry** » 03 Dec 2005, 20:30

Uh, how about a diving cage!
Amanda

Post by **Marc van Arc** » 03 Dec 2005, 20:31

worton[pl] wrote:Hey,

I really like to swim in the lakes I got a lot close to my city hehe but since today I will swim in plate armour

Well, at least you still dare to swim. I wouldn't get in there.
BTW: I'm afraid your plate armour suit will sink you

worton[pl] · Post by **worton[pl]** » 04 Dec 2005, 00:27

:) when sunked I should be able to meet an extraordinary big siluris glanis - and I won't afraid because of my plate armour hehe :)).
I wonder if somewhere there is as big as in myth siluris glanis (there are rumors they can reach 5 meters) - looking at this pike fish - everything could happen.
I just regret that I didn't see this fish personaly.

I know a person who got a strange hobby - he is diving in lakes, here in Poland, he posted link to this photo on polish discussion group - and he did see even bigger pike fish under water, during a night diving - that has to be scary :)

WhitePine · Post by **WhitePine** » 04 Dec 2005, 01:31

I grew up in the midwest of the united state... and the rumor on some of the lakes for the best bait was a large white lure.
Something that resembles a white poodle

One of my friend caught a musky(pike like fish) that was 57 inches long on one of these lakes.
My brother also pulled a 45 inch (35 lbs) pike through the ice while ice fishing. Makes you consider not swimming in fresh water!

I would also hate to see some of the large channel cats that inhabit the mississippi River(while swimming).

Cheers, Whitepine

natefrog · Post by **natefrog** » 04 Dec 2005, 08:19

I grew up in Northern Alberta Canada, and while there are many stories of incredibly aggresive pike most are just urban, (or rather rural), legends (including the one about a poodle or terrier that just disappeared while fetching).

I have however, had pike repeatedly strike at the oars of my wodden row boat and have also caught them on ten lures. We called them water wolves or slew sharks because of their propensity for gluttony.

worton[pl] · Post by **worton[pl]** » 04 Dec 2005, 15:32

They have not interest in humans I hope - we are not tasty at all x_X

sidguppy · Post by **sidguppy** » 04 Dec 2005, 20:11

Beautiful Pike!!

if it wasn't too cold (I hate cold water, even with a 5mil wetsuit), I would be in there in a second.

In Oz I was in there with about 20-30 sharks (blacktip, white tip, silvertip, grey whaler and bull), biggest about 10 feet, and no cage.

a single pike will be NO problem.
unfortunately you won't catch me travelling to any country, let alone dive, wich is too far north.

stricktly tropical/mediterranean sploosher here

If fish like that would hang around in clear water 16'C and warmer I would LOVE to dive there. under water everything looks even bigger than above, a six foot pike would resemble a giant barracuda from up close.

diving with large catfish would also be very cool; but those large rivers are rarely clear.
maybe some reef with giant Arius cats?

B-2 · Post by **B-2** » 04 Dec 2005, 21:26

I go to Finland every summer to visit my mother's side of the family. My grandma has a cottage by a huge lake. Every morning she feeds a handful of rolled oats to a large school of various species of fish (rudd, perch, roach, bream). As long as she's been feeding the fish (20+ years), there has been a pike living under the dock waiting to attack the smaller fish. Last year a new pike appeared (the old one dissapeared, it was pretty old). We have always been swimming there even though there are storys on the news every year that someone was bitten by a pike on their finger or toe. The new pike that came was amazingly hand tame. While it is watching the other fish, I can lay down on the dock, stick my hands in the water, and lift the pike partly out of the water, hold it in place, or stroke it. When I let go of it, it swims calmly away. I can even stick my fingers right in front of it's nose and it doesn't bite. It is not sick. When it catches fish it will go top speed and make huge splashes. This is a large pike too, around 18 inches long. It just shows that some fish are misunderstood.

Owch · Post by **Owch** » 05 Dec 2005, 00:58

What about that strange thing that the Southern Americans do, Okie Noodling. Sticking you hand into dark underwater holes to get big catfish to bite your fist, then yank the aforementioned fish out of its hole

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Madness

If anyone know's what these catfish are I'd like to know.

worton[pl] · Post by **worton[pl]** » 05 Dec 2005, 09:01

I guess that so big and so old fish is too cleaver to go close to humans. However, Sid water temp. here during the summer reach almost 23'C in lakes :) but I'm sure you got that big pikes also in Netherlands. We got big river here on the east and it's very clear - at last, you can see what happen in water :). It's name is Bug :) (in our language, in eanglish sounds like insect lol ;))

This friend who dive in lakes wrote a "fantasy-like" story about his night diving and he called this pike a king :) - it wasn't afraid of humans presence but he didn't let touch him (he didn't run away but he was always a bit too far to touch :)) - and this stupid feeling that not you are watching the fish but fish is watching you :)

Wow diving with sharks! :)) You are not tasty Sid hehe for sure :)
I know that almost all stories about sharks are lies but I think I wouldn't dare to dive with big shark without a cage :].

Maybe many years ago so big pikes, or other fish was not so rare? We cannot deny that we polluted water, fish can survive but maybe they cannot reach their max size?

Great idea to tame fish in a lake! I have to try it out. There was a movie about older women who feed a crocodile and
it grew huge!
It's not strange that this pike is tame - it's like in our tanks :) sooner or later most of the fishes recognize you :).

Regards.

racoll · Post by **racoll** » 05 Dec 2005, 11:38

What about that strange thing that the Southern Americans do, Okie Noodling. Sticking you hand into dark underwater holes to get big catfish to bite your fist, then yank the aforementioned fish out of its hole.

I saw a documentary on that a while back. I couldn't believe it! It looked insane. I think they said that people die quite regularly doing it.

I think the catfish they're after is either...

http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/ic ... /262_F.PHP

or

http://www.planetcatfish.com/catelog/ic ... /261_F.PHP

Post by **Shane** » 05 Dec 2005, 13:30

All catfish fans may want to buy this DVD. It is outstanding (and funny). People have died, but "regularly" would be a bit dramatic. By pure chance I work with a guy here who is from Oklahoma and knows about half the noodlers in the film. He has promised me introductions if I ever wish to get up there and try it. He had the film because lots of his friends are in it

http://www.okienoodling.com/film/
-Shane

tjudy · Post by **tjudy** » 05 Dec 2005, 17:22

My father used to free dive and spearfish for huge grouper near the oil rig pilings off the coast of Texas. It is illegal to to now (or so I have been told). I have seen pictures of my father with some huge grouper that he had to get very close to in order to spear through the head. He did not use a spear gun... just a long pole with a spear head and line attached to the end. He has told me stories of the occassional 'miss' and the large fish would drag him off towards the deep. If he hit the fish right the fish would struggle a few moments and then die.

Catfish noodling is an interesting hobby, but the catfish those guys are catching aren't large enough to take an arm off. There are some catfish in the large reservoirs big enough to do some serious damage.

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