I talked to a DNR part time employee today. He said he fished the White River downstream of Petersburg yesterday and caught some big channel cats while jug fishing. One of his jigs went under and he lost it. Makes me wonder what took that jug under water. The DNR guy thinks it was an 80 lb catfish. He said he went about 6 miles down the White River from Petersburg.

What area on the White River did they say the policeman saw the Alligator?

Alligators being reptilian will have a very tough time surviving our winter months. They don't tolerate the cold water very well. But turtles are also reptiles as are snakes and they make it though the winters here in IN with no ill effects, so who knows what the gators may do.

I have heard that those jumping carp are in the pits that I fish. Evidently the same DNR guy that lost the jug takes a DNR boat out on the Bluegrass Fish and Wildlife Pits all this summer and he told me that he saw some of these jumping carp. These are the ones that get frighten by boat motor noises and jump about 3 ft out of the water.

I would hate to be going full speed in my boat and have one of them 20lb carp jump out of the water and run into me. That would do a lot of damage even to a slower boat.