i was fishing last night and caught a fish lizard mutant thing. it was about a foot long with a fin tail...?

Question

4 legs, a snake looking body, brown with black spots, red gills, a flat head and a wide mouth. it liked my nightcrawler enough to swallow the hook. was fishing on the bottom of a freshwater lake too. o yea, and it croaked. cut the line and it crawled to the water and then half crawled half swimmed away. i don't know, but i hope u do.

4 legs, a snake looking body, brown with black spots, red gills, a flat head and a wide mouth. it liked my nightcrawler enough to swallow the hook. was fishing on the bottom of a freshwater lake too. o yea, and it croaked. cut the line and it crawled to the water and then half crawled half swimmed away. i don't know, but i hope u do.
-----------------------------------------------don't know how to get best answer, but yea it was a hellbender, some crazy stuff man

Answer 1

I don't know where this was, but I'll guess it was a hellbender.

Answer 2

I live in Oh. and im not sure if a hellbender is the same as a mudpuppy but ive caught mudpuppies in the same way..nightcrawler on the bottom.

Answer 3

I'm almost positive you caught a Sea Robin, or something of that species. They are also called "croakers", because sometimes they make a croaking noise when they're stressed out. Look it up, there are pictures out there online.

Answer 4

I'd like to see a picture of that! We catch some pretty interesting things out in the ocean too. I'm thinking the same thing as everyone else on here.

Answer 5

what curtis said plus leave out the LSD lol:))

Answer 6

You didn't mention where you live, but it was probably a salamander ... a lizard-like amphibian that grows for egg to adult in the same way frogs do.

Here are some links ... most of the pictures don't show gills like you described because they are adults ...
gills are typically found on the adolescent salamanders and then they go away as the animal ages, although a couple of species of salamander retain the gills all their life.

I think this is the one you might have encountered:
http://www.dnr.state.wi.us/org/caer/ce/eek/critter/amphibian/mudpuppy.htm

Others are here:
http://www.hoglezoo.org/animals/view.php?id=20
http://www.state.tn.us/twra/tamp/salamanders.htm

Answer 7

I believe the Latin name of the species you caught was ;

Lizardus Croakapices.

They're quite common in the UK

Answer 8

You shouldn`t mix pot & booze.......lol

Answer 9

sounds like a giant salamander, where do you live? they have them in Japan and the Appalachian mountains

Answer 10

we always called em mud puppys... it's some kind of salamander


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proteidae

Answer 11

A water dog or some kind of salamander?