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Lake Creature With 'Legs' Stumps Central Floridians
local6 ^ | July 28, 2008

Posted on 07/28/2008 7:45:19 AM PDT by stainlessbanner

OCOEE, Fla. -- A fish-like creature with "legs" caught in a Central Florida lake over the weekend sparked a flood of e-mails after photos of it were aired on Local 6.

Shawna Mitchell said she was fishing on Starke Lake in Ocoee when she pulled something strange out of the water.

Mitchell's photos showed what appeared to be a fish with two front legs and no scales.

She said she was "freaked out a little bit" after pulling the creature to a pier.

After Local 6 News aired the photos, viewers sent e-mails to Local6.com Sunday night suggesting it was a mud puppy, eel, lung fish or Chinese walking fish.

However, Local 6 has learned that the "fish" is apparently a greater siren.

It's an amphibian that is a member of the salamander family. It is described as being very reclusive.

Mitchell said, "It was a great night of fishing that I won't forget any time soon," in an e-mail.


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Shawna Mitchell said she was "freaked out a little bit" after pulling the creature to a pier.

1 posted on 07/28/2008 7:45:23 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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2 posted on 07/28/2008 7:48:07 AM PDT by SolidWood (Obamarxislamism, the threat to our Republic!)
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To: stainlessbanner

Monster tadpole?


3 posted on 07/28/2008 7:49:08 AM PDT by jwparkerjr
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How big is the thing?? 4 inches or 6 feet long??


4 posted on 07/28/2008 7:49:34 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (I'm planting corn...Have to feed my car...)
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And Bass and catfish love em. That big ol plastic worm fishermen use actually replicates these animals, only the smaller version.
5 posted on 07/28/2008 7:49:34 AM PDT by eastforker (Get-R-Done and then Bring-Em- Home)
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Awesomely cool animals. I hope she didn’t kill it.


6 posted on 07/28/2008 7:49:49 AM PDT by KeepUSfree (WOSD = fascism pure and simple.)
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To: stainlessbanner

Darwin would like this conundrum I think....


7 posted on 07/28/2008 7:50:32 AM PDT by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: stainlessbanner

It looks more like a politician to me.


8 posted on 07/28/2008 7:51:12 AM PDT by JBR34
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9 posted on 07/28/2008 7:52:10 AM PDT by BenLurkin
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Stories of Florida’s walking catfish have been around for years. I remember sitting on the couch with my mother, watching the old black & white news story and asking my mother what we were going to do if they made it to Oklahoma. She looked at me kind of puzzled then said ‘I guess we’d have to shoot the bastards’. I think this was only the first or second time I had ever heard my mother curse.


10 posted on 07/28/2008 7:53:36 AM PDT by Bob Buchholz
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It looks more like a politician to me.

Hmm... a scum-sucking bottom feeder with two legs and no apparent backbone or sex organs. You might be right.

11 posted on 07/28/2008 7:56:11 AM PDT by andy58-in-nh (A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.)
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To: stainlessbanner; shibumi

Barbarians!!!!!


12 posted on 07/28/2008 7:59:53 AM PDT by Salamander (And don't forget my Dog; fixed and consequent......)
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Many years ago we had a ditch not far from the house that stayed full of water except one year we had a severe dry spell. As the ditchstarted to dry up my boys was digging around in the mud and found one of these guys. Did some research on it back then, found out they are quite plentiful but rarely seen. Had an old fisherman tell me that yes they make excelent bait and stay alive on the hook for a long time.


13 posted on 07/28/2008 7:59:57 AM PDT by eastforker (Get-R-Done and then Bring-Em- Home)
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I hope she didn’t kill it.

Me too. It's disturbing that the article didn't address that, as if it's irrelevant.

14 posted on 07/28/2008 8:00:21 AM PDT by GovernmentShrinker
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15 posted on 07/28/2008 8:00:40 AM PDT by Red Badger (If we drill deep enough, we can reach the Saudi oil fields from THIS side..........)
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16 posted on 07/28/2008 8:02:23 AM PDT by fleagle ( An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. -Winston Churchill)
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I don’t know why they are confused, it is a Lungfish.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lungfish

In addition to the little legs, it also has lungs.


17 posted on 07/28/2008 8:03:04 AM PDT by mnehring
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Its a big salamander or a newt. No big deal. Except that it might be endangered - they they have problem.


18 posted on 07/28/2008 8:03:40 AM PDT by Little Ray (I'm a Conservative. But I can vote for John McCain. If I have to. I guess.)
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Probably tastes like chicken


19 posted on 07/28/2008 8:04:43 AM PDT by mad puppy (Never have I felt so politically radical and I swear I didn't move an inch.)
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To: Bob Buchholz

Now THAT was funny!


20 posted on 07/28/2008 8:05:32 AM PDT by VeniVidiVici (Barack Hussein Obama=Jimmy Carter Part Douche)
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