This could develop into something interesting...

[sbuse]

I remember that. I loved going to Minnehaha to walk. It's a cool park. Those ended up at the Zoo. UWA wasn't equipped to take them on back then.


As for temp, bulls are one of the species that maintain a temp higher than the surrounding water, allowing them an advantage while hunting. I've seen them in pretty chilly water - down into the low 50's.

I wonder if those are still at the zoo. I'll have to check it out when I take the kids there this summer.

Yeah it is a cool park. I walk the creek in low times looking for white suckers to fish with down at the river.

All three of those sharks were caught when the water was in the 30's. They said the one set of teeth was older so they come this far north more then we think. Were these were they easily could have made it up to coonrapids dam. And farther up the rum river. They even could be up to Taylors falls on the Croix.

It is funny how some people have no idea. I know I have hooked something that I believe could have been one. From what I saw it was a shark or a big big sturgeon. Didn't fight like a sturgeon and they are not found in that section of river to speak of. Either way it would have been a uber rare catch.I catch 1000's of sturgeon and I am leaning on shark. I spoke to another guy that had one on but it was to shallow to get it to shore and it broke off. He saw his mostly out of water and couldn't believe his eyes. He said he keeps telling himself it was a sturgeon. Definitely not a "catch them often population size"' at least that we know of. Maybe some of the divers stories that everyone says are 5' catfish might actually be some sharks and they knew no one would believe a shark here so they called them catfish. Or even some of the "I didn't see the whole thing but it had to be an 8' sturgeon". Since most of them stories come from seeing most of the back of the fish and not the head. If your under water and see the back tail section of a shark it could look like a sturgeon. More so if your not familiar with them.

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[Zoodiver]

Only a few places in the US have kept bulls well (and long term). Dallas World Aquarium, Oklahoma Aquarium in Jenks and Predator World in Branson are the three that jump to mind. Long Beach kept trying, but they ended up at OK Aq. I know of a few in private hands doing well.

 

[Miguel]

Ao basically, Matt and all, foind at those low temps they might show up anywhere, right?

 

[Miguel]

I wonder if those are still at the zoo. I'll have to check it out when I take the kids there this summer.

Yeah it is a cool park. I walk the creek in low times looking for white suckers to fish with down at the river.

All three of those sharks were caught when the water was in the 30's. They said the one set of teeth was older so they come this far north more then we think. Were these were they easily could have made it up to coonrapids dam. And farther up the rum river. They even could be up to Taylors falls on the Croix.

It is funny how some people have no idea. I know I have hooked something that I believe could have been one. From what I saw it was a shark or a big big sturgeon. Didn't fight like a sturgeon and they are not found in that section of river to speak of. Either way it would have been a uber rare catch.I catch 1000's of sturgeon and I am leaning on shark. I spoke to another guy that had one on but it was to shallow to get it to shore and it broke off. He saw his mostly out of water and couldn't believe his eyes. He said he keeps telling himself it was a sturgeon. Definitely not a "catch them often population size"' at least that we know of. Maybe some of the divers stories that everyone says are 5' catfish might actually be some sharks and they knew no one would believe a shark here so they called them catfish. Or even some of the "I didn't see the whole thing but it had to be an 8' sturgeon". Since most of them stories come from seeing most of the back of the fish and not the head. If your under water and see the back tail section of a shark it could look like a sturgeon. More so if your not familiar with them.

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Food for thought in this post....

 

[Zoodiver]

Yeah, the only thing that would stop them is a dam.

Lowest I saw them in was upper 40's(F) a few years ago when FL had that record cold winter. But even then they weren't like most sharks that slow down and stop eating. Bulls were still active and hunting. Even the local nurse sharks shut down at those temps and went months without eating.

 

[MonsterMinis]

I wonder if those are still at the zoo. I'll have to check it out when I take the kids there this summer.

Yeah it is a cool park. I walk the creek in low times looking for white suckers to fish with down at the river.

All three of those sharks were caught when the water was in the 30's. They said the one set of teeth was older so they come this far north more then we think. Were these were they easily could have made it up to coonrapids dam. And farther up the rum river. They even could be up to Taylors falls on the Croix.

It is funny how some people have no idea. I know I have hooked something that I believe could have been one. From what I saw it was a shark or a big big sturgeon. Didn't fight like a sturgeon and they are not found in that section of river to speak of. Either way it would have been a uber rare catch.I catch 1000's of sturgeon and I am leaning on shark. I spoke to another guy that had one on but it was to shallow to get it to shore and it broke off. He saw his mostly out of water and couldn't believe his eyes. He said he keeps telling himself it was a sturgeon. Definitely not a "catch them often population size"' at least that we know of. Maybe some of the divers stories that everyone says are 5' catfish might actually be some sharks and they knew no one would believe a shark here so they called them catfish. Or even some of the "I didn't see the whole thing but it had to be an 8' sturgeon". Since most of them stories come from seeing most of the back of the fish and not the head. If your under water and see the back tail section of a shark it could look like a sturgeon. More so if your not familiar with them.

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I know I've hooked into some BIG fish in the lake Winnebago area... I'm use to big pike, salmon on Michigan, the occasional sturgeon, catfish ect.. and I've hooked into a few fish that literally just took my line downstream and ripped it right off the reel w/out even "fighting" always say "must have been a big sturgeon, carp, or catfish"

But then since joining this site I don't go swimming in the lakes and rivers as much anymore either, lol....