Sharks In Minnesota And Wisconsin
Minnesota DNR biologist Dan Marais holds the larger of two juvenile Bull Sharks netted near the mouth of Minnehaha Creek during the early hours of March 27, 2006 Photo courtesy of Mn Department of Fisheries and Wildlife.
Alton, Illinois Commercial fishermen Herbert Cope and Dudge Collins, caught this 84 lbs bull shark in 1937.
Aug. 30, 2008 Blacktip shark that most presume is a hoax found in lake Michigan. Check out links at the bottom of this post for full story.
Photo courtesy of the Wisconsin Bureau of Fisheries Management and Habitat Protection.
On February 12, 2006, divers working with Wisconsin DNR Fisheries, caught this five-foot female Bull Shark under the ice on Lake Pepin, which is part of the Mississippi River. The Wisconsin DNR were responding to reports from several startled salvage divers of a large shark in the cab of a pickup truck that had gone through the ice a few weeks earlier. The Wisconsin divers located the truck in approximately 18′ of water with the shark still inside. The nearly dormant shark was easily captured, then the DNR examined the shark, tagged it with a radio tracking device and released back into the river.
The bull shark like the ones found in Minnesota and Wisconsin are common worldwide, can grow to over 11 feet long and 700 lbs. and are known for being unpredictable, and often times aggressive. The bull shark is not a freshwater shark, but it is able to tolerate fresh water for extended periods of time. The bull shark has been reported over 2,200 miles up the Amazon River at Iquitos in Peru. Besides being in Minnesota and Wisconsin these sharks have also been reported up the Illinois River as far as Lake Michigan. According to the Global Shark Attack File, in 1955 George Lawson had his right leg bitten off by a bull shark while swimming in Lake Michigan near Chicago. Although this was a one time freak attack, it makes me wonder what was swimming with me all those times I went skiing on the Illinois River and Swimming at the Chicago beaches on Lake Michigan. I guess its probably better that I don’t know. Oh well at least I can go shark fishing in Central Illinois now! 
While doing research for this post I also found the following articles that might be of interest:
August 31, 2008 Man Says He Found Dead Shark in Lake Michigan
Click Here For FoxNews report of the story
also another better article on the same story
Click Here for the story
That’s amazing, I grew up in Michigan and had no idea! Thanks for the post!
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Very interesting article. i never heard about sharks in fresh water.
Most likely what was swimming in the water with you were the Olympic redneck mud diver team members. They were searching for catfish and bull sharks to wrestle.
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No one reads the entire artical.. Notice the date of the story, April 1st..
Then all the way at the bottom….
“Any resemblance in the above story to actual fact may be coincidental and could be disregarded, depending on your mood. April Fools!”
Hate to tell you, “Idiots”, but I saw on the news just the other day (and this is the middle of May, not April 1st) that a bull shark was just found in a river in southern Illinois. Bull sharks can survive in fresh water, and bull sharks kill more people (idiots or otherwise) than any other sharks. Unless, of course, all the programs I’ve seen this reported on while watching AnimalPlanet were all produced to be shown on April 1st.
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