I know they say there are no cougars in this area, but a friend and I saw one one night when we were night fishing. It was a bright moon night and we were pitching jigs up near the bank, we had a black light on. We kept hearing an animal following us the bank at the same pace we were fishing. I eventually saw the tan coat and asumed it was a small deer. When its eyes reflected in the black light, (after 20-30 minutes of following the boat) its eyes were in the front of its face. It was obviously a big cat. I shined a bright light on it and it just froze. It was probably 20' away from us, looked to stand about 2.5 ft tall, long body, and a tail that looked to be even longer than its body. No doubt about the tail. We could see the animal very well. It stayed still for half a minute or so then turned and went up the mountain side away from us very slowly. As it was eaving we could hear another animal leaving at the same time and walking at the same pace about 150ft or so ahead, going the same direction.

We dont talk about this much because a lot of folks think of it like claiming you saw a big foot or something. But this cat looked more like a african lion than a little bobcat. My theory is that it was curious about the blacklight.