Quote Originally Posted by smokefan View Post
Went to an old strip pond yesterday afternoon, just to wet a line. The pond gets fished hard and most people keep anything they catch so i didnt expect to catch much if anything. I didnt catch a thing. But as I got a texas rigged worm close to the bank I saw something. It was about 3" long had a head shaped like a shovle, the body of a lizard with 4 legs, and a tail that thin and wide that it used to swim. I have heard about things like this in the cumberland river and people call them "waterdogs". But what are they? I have never seen anything like them.
I'm not for sure, but if it is a hellbender you may want to report it to KDFWR. I know they were taking population surveys on these, but not for sure if they are still interested or not. You may want to check into it...