a baby Nessie! That's a tough one to debunk to be honest.
It is quite something, isn't it?
@Num7 this was a great find!
I have a very short 'Nessie Related' story.......
When I was a kid we lived next to a lake and it was quite the news back in 1972 when
the photos of Nessie's Flippers were shown to the masses!
The rumors here were that, a local fisherman hooked onto
something that began
pulling his boat around before his line snapped!
The story was backed up by everyone that caught wind of the story.
There were some truly monstrous Pike hiding in that lake......(Still are!)
Funny thing, years later I went river fishing with my cousin.
The lake I live on feeds this river and we were in a canoe.
I had a medium sized Silver Red Eyed spoon that I had casted out.
I got a hard strike and had one hell of a fight with
Something as it dragged both me and my cousin
down that river. It was unrelenting and easily snapped my line.
I'm no way saying it was a Nessie of any kind....But whatever it was?
It bit right through a metal leader and not through my 20 lb test fishing line.
We both believe it was probably a snapping turtle, it in no way fought like a fish would have done.
It was like I had hooked on to a large moving object that just snapped my line like it was nothing.
Thing is....it was a good 5 inches up from the spoon where the leader was bitten!
We still talk about that one to this day.