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The deeper you go the older the fish. Can get very large. Live longer. I've heard some fish Live for 100 years or more. Can you imagine getting a photo like that. Incredible
@@RareFiles Probably the Columbia River. Biggest ever caught in the Columbia, before regulations, was 12 feet. Although they tend to prefer deep water, they occasional jump and break the surface. The can live up to 100 years.
The mysterious creature was a fish? That's called click baiting, and it is both aggravating and dishonest. You are wasting people's time and deceiving them just to get a higher view count.
There's something big down there. When I lived at Tahoe, a friend called me and said, "Come over quick you've got to see this." He had been trolling on the lake when he hooked a 10 lb+ lake trout. He said as he was reeling it in he felt a big tug and then the line went slack. What he finally reeled in was a 10+ lb lake trout that was half gone. There was a big crescent shaped bite mark, and the back half of the fish was gone. Something is big enough down there to treat a 10 lb lake trout like a minnow.
Thanks for sharing, I live on the water of low country. This isn't necessarily relevant but I once saw three large fish wash up missing their heads. What was odd though, it didn't look like the fish were decapitated by a bite or a fisherman's knife. The cuts were so flawless, it had laser-like precision. Even more odd, the minos and crabs completely ignored the free meal.
@@a1uffy that's very strange...like alien strange. The old guy next door to my friend had lived at Tahoe since '49. He said after the transcontinental railroad was finished, some midwesterners brought back some native midwestern species and planted them in Tahoe. His bet was it was a 150 year old muskie that's grown to enormous size. For then on, I always thought about that when I went swimming in the lake.
@@LuckyBaldwin777 Jeez.. I mean Tahoe's depth is supposably nearing 2000 feet alone. To say a pike/musky (I really don't know the difference) could live that long from an old man's intuition should hold some weight and credence. The older I get, the more I have grown to listen, and take more literally that of first nation elder's stories. They have always had a far more intimate relationship with nature than most folk, especially from the western psyche. In relation to Tahoe, Paiute and Washoe have some crazy stories about creatures that inhabit the lake. The Paiute alone spoke about red hair giants thanks to Sarah Winnemucca who wrote down stories of her chieftain grandfather in 1882. It's hard to know what's going on and what true.
@@a1uffy On the east side of Tahoe, at the base of the mountains is Carson City, Nevada. The bottom of Lake Tahoe is lower than Carson City. And it's filled, at least was originally, with melted ice from the last ice age. Amazing place. Actually I exaggerated. The fish would have been around a hundred years old when this happened. I asked the old guy about that and he said apex preditors live a long time whether they live on the land, in the water, or in the air. I think the main difference is muskies have pointy fins and northern pikes are rounded. A friend from Wisconsin told me about a guy that was fishing, sitting on the front of his boat with his feet in the water. A muskie came along and bit off his little toe. Yikes!
@@LuckyBaldwin777 Yea that's no fun haha. I'd be so mad if I looked down and my pinky toe somehow went missing unbeknownst to myself at that given instance. I'm guessing they're just some freakish sized fish out there. (Age, genetic mutation, something from lore... who knows) I grew up going to a place called Lake Gaston in NC/VA. When I was around eight-year-old in the middle of winter btw. I was bord and casted out a large 3 1/2-inch lure to past the time. To my surprise, something grabbed it and dragged me 3 feet off my deck till I had to let go of the rod or fall into frigid waters. I may have been little and weak but whatever that was seemed unnatural to the lake.
I lived in Jackson CA in the 1950's, a fellow my dad worked with fished Tahoe regularly and caught a few fish, one was Strugen about 3 feet long. Those fish live way down on the bottoms where they feed.
We have lots of Sturgeon in the Columbia River. They can grow up to 10 feet long and live up to a 100 years. Although it's not legal to catch the larger sturgeon any more, the largest ever fished in the Columbia was 12 feet long.
Dear petly . If you time it and stop it 5 feet from the bottoms you might get to see more than silt ... you also need to drop lights around it .. attach them to bobbers and have 20 plus sitting in the circle your filming ... would lov3 to help work on this and plan this out
I was in jail once and a guy admitted to me he dumped his old meth lab into lake tahoe from a house boat. I have no way to know if he was telling the truth.
Researchers: We’ve spent millions on expensive equipment and we haven’t been able to reached the bottom. Some Kid: I put a GoPro on a spear with some sardines. 😂😂😂😂
Jacque Cousteau said: "Sea monsters", "Thousands" of "Bodies", and Under Water "Tunnel's" Linking Many of the nearby lakes! That's A.. Fact! No questions!
@@porlorlorl You Are' an idiot! Just stupid! You can't listen to other people, because you're Narcissistic and think you know better than anyone else... More intelligent.... Which makes me Yu ignorant! Just Dumb... You got Cancer from written words!... Wow... Milk toast...boyyy' Yu Suck...you're Weak! Baby... Lil man... pischers' like you....ughhh ewwww .
Researchers: we spent millions trying to reach the depths of Lake Tahoe and failed. Young kid: puts a GoPro on a spear and puts sardines around it and reaches the deepest point successfully. Me: lmao 🤣 😂😂😂😂😂😂
+Monte Lang No mysterious creature? What about that big fish that could possibly turn out to be a(at the present moment) an unknown species of fresh water shark?
darkstar6909 I let an alligator gar loose in a small 5 acre lake in the Tampa Florida area. It's a neighborhood legend now. I let it go ten years ago and it's huge now. At least seven feet long and well over a hundred pounds. The pond is loaded with fish for it to eat. lol!
🤔 Ooorrrr...it could be a miniature submarine made to look like a fish...the remnants of the Lost City of Atlantis...who shrunk their bodies after fleeing the destruction...and secreted themselves at the bottom of Lake Tahoe...waiting for the day when civilization advanced far enough...so they could return to the surface world and rule the Earth once again...with their indestructible fish-like vessel that shoots death-beams out of its eyes. DAMMIT, KID, YOU JUST DOOMED US ALL!!! 😱🤬😱
A lot of people don't know that there can be giant sturgeons in America's western lakes. One 12 feet long was caught in Flathead Lake, Montana many years ago.
Hey y'all. Bob Beluga here. So I go for a swim and a dive. Next thing I know is these sumbitches see me and call me a 'Mysterious Creature', why? Because I'm plump, white and have flippers!? Hello? Next...
boboala1 it's not easy being me either, so I feel ya. Happy New Year..... (Now I have to get used to writing 2017..... I barely got used to writing 2016..... Where did the year run off to?)
I think a lot of people here arent aware that the deepest known point is over 1600ft deep in Lake Tahoe, which is(if you're not fully aware) is very, very VERY deep. Just look at the different life forms in the ocean that live that deep compared to the "fish" that live in the 300ft depth range and you'll see why this is a TREMENDOUS and extremely important accomplishment.
Good Grief ~ This kid has worked hard to figure this out. I would assume this is where his journey begins. If this was your kid, I would hope you would encourage him. Lighten up folks!!!
I saw the comments saying that this was clickbait, but if this video is titled that because of the captured "shark/large trout", I found it worth the watch. To me, that ABSOLUTELY looks like a shark.
"Underwater tunnels connecting to other lakes." Yeah, right. Unless that 0ther lake is exactly the identical water level above sea level, water would drain put of the higher elevation lake to the lower elevation lake. Some old folklore would say that someone who drowned in Lake A would sometimes body be found 100 miles away in Lake B. Lake B may be 500 feet lower elevation than Lake A but it makes for good story telling.
I was at Lake Tahoe on my vacation when I saw this really really weird rock that looked like a piece of meteor. I took it with me to home and it was 8 hours away.it was washed to shore in the morning. This happened august 2017.
Ok. Here is what caught my interest was what the Young man solved a on going issue. Small invention, or is adjustment to equipment. Something different and yes was 4 mins but not a waste of my time. To see how a young person can do a project an is cool to me. Really hope he does more. Thank you
@@imback3200 Yes, Used to work on Towed Array and we did other stuff for the Navy 👍🇺🇸 back in the cold war days , Lake Tahoe as you know is very deep with caves with streams , All I can say it's acoustic research of some kind ...
Lake Trout? Never saw a fish like that in the lake, I grew up in S.L.T., my dad fished often. . . Some parts of lake unmeasurable it is believed. . . Keep up the good work, great video! 👍
Way cool would like to see more I'm from California I was a tour bus driver I have there more times than most will go in there life it is very beautiful!
this scarry I live in Truckee CA witch is a town 20 minutes away from lake Tahoe I'm afraid now and lake Tahoe is like maybe a couple thousand feet deep
That’s a great thing the kid’s onto. Have dove Tahoe many times, blue cray fish around emerald bay island. Yeah, he’ll be the one to picture Tahoe Tessy.
