Yes, Sharks Have Been Spotted in the Mississippi River Near St. Louis

Fox2now ^ | Jul 13, 2021 | Joe Millitzer

[heavy metal]

they’re quite enterprising too...

i’ve seen their vacuum cleaners in several stores...

[piasa]

Could be it is more common and they simply aren’t caught on the equipment most people use in the river because sharks can bite through anything but a heavy wire lead.

You used to be able to catch a mess of shrimp in the Mississippi near where the Ohio comes in, too. That used to be the north shore of the Gulf of Mexico a very, very long time ago.

As a side note, the Mississippian Indians who built the mound city of Cahokia across from St. Louis made edged weapons/ war clubs with shark’s teeth embedded in them. But they were not bull shark teeth, they were great white shark teeth which they had obtained in trade. They were highly prized but scarce so flintknappers learned to make imitation shark’s teeth out of Burlington Flint. Portions of these weapons were uncovered in a farmer’s field near the mound site.

[piasa]

Maybe we could get Biden to leave DC and settle in your fishing hole so the bluegill can bite the bubbles off his leg hair... maybe we can send Pelosi with Biden so he’ll have some crank bait.

[piasa]

There is just as much oxygen in the water no matter which direction the fish swims. It’s the same water, carrying the same oxygen.

One thing that is interesting is that south of Alton is a set of rocky rapids called The Chain of Rocks, which is impassible part of the year, except when the river floods enough to rise above the rocks. At some point a canal was built enabling barges to bypass this spot, but I forget when the canal was dug.

For a bull shark to get to Alton in what I guess was a time before the canal, it would have had to swim over the Chain of Rocks during a flood period.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Bull sharks have been spotted in the Chesapeake. I also believe that the sharks in Lake Nicaragua are bull sharks or closely related. You don’t get to be the aquatic alpha predator for hundreds of millions of years without some flexibility.

[Reily]

There was a shark activity back in 1937 as far up the Mississippi as Alton, Illinois. "..... Are there any Sharks in the Mississippi River? Sharks are no stranger to the Mississippi River Just ask the residents of Alton, Illinois located north of St. Louis. In 1937, two fishermen managed to capture a five-foot 84-pound bull shark. To say it was a surprise would be an understatement. ."

[Salamander]

*gag*