Time to put up or shut up….

But did you eat him?

That Gannet, took three of us, to get the hook out of it’s mouth, and the bu33er bit me. Ungrateful sod….:D
Jim.
Lincoln .7

Um, the info as given was deciphered by me as you were dangling your rod in water that was 85ft deep (I cannot dispute the depth, but then I wasn’t, was I…). Now, I have no idea how far down you go to drown your worm, or whether you were bottom fishing, I was merely trying to establish if the hook was at the bottom.

Do you eat what you catch, or did you mount it?;o)

SNAF. I remember I had a half pound lead weight on, and was fishing, as most boat Sea Anglers do, (Except when drift fishing over a wreck) on the Sea Bed. Echo sounders are very accurate, and if it indicated 85 feet, then that’s good enough for me.But that’s not the point I was making, was it?.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

But little fish have of habit growing in to very large fish, beluga sturgeon at 15ft long would get your attention don’t you think.

Granted, but it is not going to make a habit of annually negotiating the locks/fish runs/weirs, is it.

Imagine something like a large snake ,only needs to eat once every blue moon then they hide away to digest it ,also being cold blooded their metabolism can pretty much shut down.

And they do like to breathe that air, don’t they. Mmm-mmm! Which it couldn’t do if it was hibernating at the bottom of bleedin’ Loch Ness! That is not taking into account what Mogs said about the size of the meal it would need before hand, either…

This is a true story guys…

So where was your hook? Was it 85ft down, or was it bobbing around a bit shallower? Just because the bottom was 85ft it doesn’t necessarily follow that the hook was also at that depth.

It could have been a nuclear Gannet…;o)

This is a true story guys. Some years ago, I was boat fishing in the Annual National Police Boat Sea Angling Competition, teams from England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales were taking part.
The skipper took us to an area near where the nuke subs are stationed, we were outside on the edge of the channel the subs used, and the depth of the water we were in, according to the echo sounder was 85 feet deep. Suddenly, my rod tip bounced, and I could see my line zig zagging all over the place, It was hard work getting what I had caught to the surface, and when I did, it was a Gannet. The story was in the news, simply because it was not known at the time, that Gannets could dive that deep. Some weeks later, I was contacted by Post, from a Professor at a University in the USA, who had read what I had caught in the papers. He was doing a study of Nessie, and came over here every year to see if he could find her. He had photos of a Pleasurasaurus, (Spelling?) which he had taken in the Loch, which he thought was a “Fin” of Nessie, He had compared the wing of the Gannet, to the photo of “Nessies fin” and came to the conclusion that it was in fact a Gannets wing. He never even considered that, as at that time, it was believed Gannets couldn’t dive that deep.
Jim.
Lincoln .7

Imagine something like a large snake ,only needs to eat once every blue moon then they hide away to digest it

It would have to be a fairly sizable meal. I can’t recall much in the ways of local cows going missing. A couple of loch salmon are hardly going to supply sustenance for a huge creature for more than a year surely?

Moggy

“I knew that!!!”………………:D
Jim.
Lincoln .7

Hibernating for over a year and a half? Um, right.

Imagine something like a large snake ,only needs to eat once every blue moon then they hide away to digest it ,also being cold blooded their metabolism can pretty much shut down.

There was one report that said it had been seen crawling back into the water across the road on the east-side of the Loch.

Fish, yes. Something that wasn’t a fish and was larger than a fish…no.
The canal would be difficult to transverse without being seen due to the seven locks between the loch and the sea, and the creature would need to be very patient and determined, knowing what it needed to do and when to makes its move.
The river would also be difficult; it is shallow along most of its length, knee deep in the low season at its deepest, and there are also two weirs to navigate. Salmon can get through since the fish channels were designed for their transit, but a larger ‘monster’ whose head might be the size of a salmon (I mean, who knows?) would have great difficulty.

But its dead – there hasn’t been a reported sighting of Nessie for 18 months… http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-26081992

But little fish have of habit growing in to very large fish, beluga sturgeon at 15ft long would get your attention don’t you think.

The physiology and metabolism of monsters is quite unique.

Hibernating for over a year and a half? Um, right.

Yeah but whilst you’re there it’s hibernating deep and silent in Loch Ness 🙂

😮 But i bet you will still look and hope and wish next time go go near Loch Ness 😮

Nah, its connected to the sea [/sarcasm] so all I need to do is pop down to the shore and have a gaze there…;o)

Better get there soon in case you need a visa after September!!;)

😮 But i bet you will still look and hope and wish next time go go near Loch Ness 😮

If it can slither/climb like a snake it can go anywhere,or maybe small wings enough to flap about obstacles 🙂

There was one report that said it had been seen crawling back into the water across the road on the east-side of the Loch.

So you don’t think something could swim up/down the lock system.

Fish, yes. Something that wasn’t a fish and was larger than a fish…no.
The canal would be difficult to transverse without being seen due to the seven locks between the loch and the sea, and the creature would need to be very patient and determined, knowing what it needed to do and when to makes its move.
The river would also be difficult; it is shallow along most of its length, knee deep in the low season at its deepest, and there are also two weirs to navigate. Salmon can get through since the fish channels were designed for their transit, but a larger ‘monster’ whose head might be the size of a salmon (I mean, who knows?) would have great difficulty.

But its dead – there hasn’t been a reported sighting of Nessie for 18 months… http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-26081992

A large creature that can operate a lock? I think not…

So you don’t think something could swim up/down the lock system.

If it can slither/climb like a snake it can go anywhere,or maybe small wings enough to flap about obstacles 🙂

A large creature that can operate a lock? I think not…