[pyx]

One day, not so long ago, I too was out on a small very clear deep fresh water lake in a small boat, doing some daydreaming and fishing. The day was quite clear, the sun was out and there were lots of fluffy clouds floating by overhead. There was a slight breeze which was strong enough to cause ripples on the surface. All in all, it was a beautiful day.

When I looked over the side of the boat into the water's depths, I too saw a massive dark "thing" move by boat. I was astonished. It too looked like it was way down at the bottom of the deep lake.This behemoth took over 30 seconds to pass me, it was so huge.My guess at first was that it must have been 300 feet long.

But then I realized something. I decided to look UP. And to my surprise, there was an exact replica of the shape in the sky. It was a cloud. A reflection of a small dense cloud passing overhead as seen in the ripples of the deep clear lake looked as though it was some sort of looming monster in the depths of the lake.

In spite of my not being a reliable authoritative source like a nurse or physiotherapist like in the story above, I still caught a reasonable sized pickeral for dinner that day and did indeed enjoy myself.

[johnny7]

Pickerel? You still picking the bones out of your teeth?

When me and my friends go fishing and someone says he just lost a big bass we say... just a pickerel.

No offense dude... just fact.

[SarahW]

I think you solved the mystery...

[Alas Babylon!]

I think that's probably what she saw. Even if, from a scientific point of view, you theorize that some unknown ocean-dwelling dinosaurs escape the die-off of the Cretaceous era, how in the world would a thing like that make it to Crater Lake, of all places? Loch Ness maybe, Lake Champlain maybe, but a flooded volcano caldera?

[Hagrid]

my thought exactly. a cloud can leave a huge shadow in clear water.

[Sam Cree]

Don't pickeral have alot of bones?