We all know fishermen can tell some wild stories, but this fish tale has pictures and witnesses, and is making some people nervous. It sounds crazy, but two different fishermen at Medina Lake have caught two different sharks. No one knows how they got there, and the incidents have experts puzzled. Biologists have identified the creatures as Atlantic Sharp Nose Sharks, but Medina Lake is hundreds of miles from the shark’s closest salt water home. “It kind of startled me,” fisherman James Price told WOAI. Price is from Lamesa, but he fishes in lakes all over Texas. He says his jaw dropped Monday when he pulled the 37-inch shark out of the water. “It looked like a bull shark, and I know they can live in fresh water, but they shouldn't be in this lake,” said Price. He says he brought the shark back to shore to show friends and take pictures, just so nobody would think he was nuts. His family was shocked.

“I know because I saw the teeth, and that really scared me,” said Connie Price. This is the second shark caught at Medina Lake. Jet Smith caught one the day before Price caught his. “It's just crazy!” That sums up what Texas Parks and Wildlife had to say. Game Warden Danny Shaw says these kinds of sharks shouldn't be in a lake, but they pose no danger.

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I didn't realise sharks could live in fresh water I thought the different density upsets their swim baldders or something - or is that only with fish?

...That's insane! I would die of shock if I pulled one up fishing.

Sharks doesnt have swim bladders.

Various shark species are known to hike up rivers at times, maybe this one really got lost

I heard their not dangerous to humans, so their not closing the beach yet

Biology ain't my strong point

Regardless how it got there, that picture of the shark on the hook will always freak me out

Great I was already afraid of the beach and now they have ruined lakes for me

Yah me 2... Maybe, theres un underground river?? Eh, probally not, but it could be possible..

This should be in the shark's information.

That's some new things. I seriously didn't know they lived in fresh water too. Maybe some crazy guy dropped lots of shark eggs into the lake. That they got used to the lake water? It could be.

Could be possible, there isnt any large predators.

[quote=Pannkakskungen,Aug 26 2005, 04:03 AM]
Sharks doesnt have swim bladders.

sharks have swim bladders that's one of the reasons that they're always in motion if they stop swimming they die. Maybe there is a like an under water passageway that it swam thru or maybe some one planted the sharks there as a joke who knows

There are two type's which can live in fresh water. The bull shark is the one you find the most in fresh water, They come to hunt, I can't remember the other right now. But we have a thread in the Cyrpt form about this.

Now i can never set foot in the ocean OR a lake
big woopedy do for me

You sure wouldn't want to swim after seeing that up close.

This shark story is quite interesting. It seems sort of weird that it got in a lake. Mugglers maybe trying to hide the sharks.

This shark story is quite interesting. It seems sort of weird that it got in a lake. Mugglers maybe trying to hide the sharks.

There is one species of shark known to live in fresh water. I forget which one but it lives in Lake Nicaragua, that big lake in the center of that country.

Bullsharks live or can live in both salt and fresh water.

That's actually a myth that was disproven some time ago. We've known for some time that sharks stop swimming to sleep.

They say they are harmless? If it is a shark, and it has teeth...its harmful!