Never2Bknown
Fish Crazy
---One of the most ancient fish in existance is the sturgeon. Supposedly dating back 130,000,000 years ago (if you believe in evolution) it is a living fossil. It can get 80 years old, and reaches sexual maturity at around 20 years of age. After that, it usually only spawns once every 6 to 9 years. The lake sturgeon alone can grow up to 200 pounds, but the Atlantic Sturgeon can grow over 13 feet in length and over 500 pounds in size.
---Another fish, even more ancient than the sturgeon according to the fossil record, is the freshwater Dogfish, or Bowfin. According to evolutionists, this strange fish it supposed to date all the way back to the Jurassic period, some 180,000,000 years ago. These voracious predators are survivors; they can live in cloudy waters due to algal blooms (though not silt) and have the interesting capability of using their air-bladder as a lung, allowing them to live for an entire day out of water.
While I have never caught a dogfish, I have had the chance to meet a few of them up close and personal while snorkeling in Deep Lake, Michigan. These fish are, to me, almost eerie; their eyes appear in the water to be strangely clouded, as if they had been rotting at the bottom of the lake for a long time. Their dorsal fins also make them different from other fish because of the way they seem to ripple and flow, not unlike the fin of a Knife fish.
While snorkeling, I can always tell when one of these ghostly predators is close by because of the sudden lack of any fish in the area, sort of like the silence of the birds in the calm before a storm. They have never appeared to be afraid of me; rather, they seem to swim away in annoyance more than any other reason. Growing over 27 inches in length, these fish, like pike, are "lords of the lake."
---Another fish, even more ancient than the sturgeon according to the fossil record, is the freshwater Dogfish, or Bowfin. According to evolutionists, this strange fish it supposed to date all the way back to the Jurassic period, some 180,000,000 years ago. These voracious predators are survivors; they can live in cloudy waters due to algal blooms (though not silt) and have the interesting capability of using their air-bladder as a lung, allowing them to live for an entire day out of water.
While I have never caught a dogfish, I have had the chance to meet a few of them up close and personal while snorkeling in Deep Lake, Michigan. These fish are, to me, almost eerie; their eyes appear in the water to be strangely clouded, as if they had been rotting at the bottom of the lake for a long time. Their dorsal fins also make them different from other fish because of the way they seem to ripple and flow, not unlike the fin of a Knife fish.
While snorkeling, I can always tell when one of these ghostly predators is close by because of the sudden lack of any fish in the area, sort of like the silence of the birds in the calm before a storm. They have never appeared to be afraid of me; rather, they seem to swim away in annoyance more than any other reason. Growing over 27 inches in length, these fish, like pike, are "lords of the lake."
