Comments on: The big question: Is Ogopogo a sturgeon?

By: CryptidHuntr

CryptidHuntr — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 01:23:00 +0000

some sightings could’ve been a sturgeon but i highly doubt that Ogopogo is a sturgeon

By: doyleonly

doyleonly — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:35:07 +0000

When im down there (diving) i’ll see what i can see.

By: doyleonly

doyleonly — Tue, 04 Sep 2007 04:27:59 +0000

I’ll keep my eyes open when I’m down there (diving) for whatever lurks in the depths.

By: Notsobigfoot

Notsobigfoot — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:35:13 +0000

ugh forgive all the bad spelling, i worked late last night. sorry

By: Notsobigfoot

Notsobigfoot — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:34:13 +0000

Hi all. I live in TN and have heard similar stories both about the dams around here and from a friend who is from Los Vegas. The whole large shape near the bottom of a damn thing is pretty common id say.

On the sturgeon topic, there is a small, hardly noticible picture in the chattanooga aquarium of a sturgeon that was pulled out of the mississipi (sp) river. Its an old b&w photo showing a sturgeon laid out next to a boat and a man standing next to the boat. Just from eyeballing it i would say the fish is around 20 feet long…..very interesting.

On the mosaurous / bailasaurous theory, i dont deny that that would fit most of the descriptions better than any canidate, but what throws me off is that both of those creatures were esentially very primitive whales and therefore were not nearly as intelligent as modern whales.
Now, where i am going with this is that modern whales are some of the most intelligent animals on this earth and yet they cannot avoid detection, photography and whaling into extinction. I feel that bigfoot could avoid such things due to its near human intellect, but i am sceptical that any kind of whale/aquatic reptile would have such a mind.
Just my two cents……i want it to be a baily tho………

By: CryptoInformant

CryptoInformant — Wed, 04 Oct 2006 01:42:12 +0000

crypto-randz-
Yes, a Mosasaur is a possibility, albeit a remote one. I’m still saying an evolved Basilosaurus, and not a Sturgeon. As for the dark shapes at the bottom, it could be an ambush tactic often used to capture amphibious rhino-like Arsinotheres.

P.S. S.C.C.Z. is coming along nicely, and, after I get funds from my eventual video game company, (plan ahead!) I plan to start the South Carolina CryptoZoo, and stock the first few exhibits with common excuses for lake monsters, including, hopefully, Giant Catfish, Giant Sturgeons, and Giant Alligator Gar, all monsters in their own right. That, however, will be a while, as I am the only scientist in my 8th Grade class.

IDIOTS, ARRGH! UNSCIENTIFIC IDIOTS!
(whew, that’s better)

P.S. Has anyone played the Nintendo Gamecube game Animal Crossing? On the Nintendo Wii version they had better include some of the above fish for the fishing part of the game!

By: chas

chas — Thu, 24 Aug 2006 20:02:47 +0000

Ogopogo is not a sturgeon, it is many sturgeons. Lake Okanagan and many of the surrounding lakes have sturgeon in them.

A well-known mating ritual of a sturgeon is that the males will dart in and out of the water as a display to the females. It looks something like swimming dolphins, only the sturgeons don’t come very far out of the water. Obviously, if you had several male sturgeons doing this at the same time, if would appear like a large animal was in the water with many humps.

Ogopogo sightings are often in the same area of tha lake – that would be where the sturgeons mate.

Sorry guys, no lake monster in Lake Okanagan.

By: greenteaaddict

greenteaaddict — Sun, 20 Aug 2006 19:16:24 +0000

I agree with crypto_randz. The swimming patterns of sturgeons is far diferent from the alleged swimming patterns of ogopogo.

I live in B.C., and have been to Lake Okanagen a few times. Once I believe that I saw ogopogo, and after some reserch, I found that it does resemble a mosaurus. But I have talked with some experts at the Vancouver Aquaririum, and they believe it to be a type of sturgeon.

By: crypto_randz

crypto_randz — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 23:59:52 +0000

First of all take a look how this thing moves, sturgeons move very slowly this thing in LAKE OKANAGAN moves swiftly and smoothly also this thing leaves enormous waves. Its a MOSAURUS. Face the fact most but all lake monsters could be survivors from the dino era. There are hidden caves in alot of the lakes also lakes are cold and gloomy.

By: cryptolover

cryptolover — Wed, 02 Aug 2006 03:34:00 +0000

My field is in Fish and I can tell you about this in many cases sturgeon are the answer, in some cases they are not. There is many varieties of sturgeon from near around the world. Giants like the beluga reported to 30 feet with stories of 40 foot plus monsters. Giant atlantic sturgeon and white sturgeon and lake sturgeon are the most common mistaken for a lake monster. They often go on the surface much more then what is expected. When you see a 10 foot huge back going across the surface most will exagerate and it will end up being 15 or 20 feet. Other species like Giant alligator Gar and many more are responsible for many a lake monster tale. Also some species like atlantic can go up rivers and get locked in smaller lakes and live for ages and keep growing. However, some monster films and eyewitness accounts do not remotely match a sturgeon. Lake monsters are many things the least likely a Giant Lizard from the stone age, although some films show animals way larger then sturgeon could ever be, so I do not know.