Armadillos?

[J White]

Have ya'll ever seen this? A few years ago up at Goat Island, I was
fishing and this man was running trot lines up the channel from me -
I see him coming, making a bee-line for me with a dip net hanging over
the side - I figure its a big cat he's coming to show me, but as he gets
closer, I'm squinting and saying to myself "WHAT?" He gets up beside me
and its a big Armadillo in the net. By now we are drifted up pretty close
to the West bank, he shows it to me and dumps it back in the lake.
It takes off swimming East. The channel is near 3/4 of a mile wide here.
He picks it up and dumps it a couple more times, each time it goes for
the far bank. I ask, and he says it was going East when he first saw it.
Danged things must have a homing beacon or compass or something!

[CrappieLips]

JWhite I did'nt even know they could swim let alone, they new which direction they were going LOL

[J White]

JWhite I did'nt even know they could swim let alone, they new which direction they were going LOL

Yeah, they swim pretty good - I'd say as fast as a dog the same size.
About 1/3 of them above the water, paddling like crazy!

[CrappieLips]

I bet that looks funny

[Mo'nBack]

I used to catch them and take them to the nearest water and throw them in to see them swim. Usually for me they would go right under the surface of the water and look like a bass coming from a cypress tree fixing to hit a top water bait. Looked like a torpedo just under the surface of the water. I throwed one into a clear pond once and it went to bottom and looked like it was running on the bottom. I looked them up somewhere and the book says that they can't swim, but walk on bottom. I have to disagree, since I've seen swim.

[Pooch]

Here in my neck of the woods, I've heard that they can swim the Mississippi River. I have seen one swim across a couple of hundred yards wide lake. When I was young and had no where to go and all the time in the world to get there, a couple of buddies and I thought we had one hemmed up, but he thought otherwise.---Pooch

[jigdragger]

Here in my neck of the woods, I've heard that they can swim the Mississippi River. I have seen one swim across a couple of hundred yards wide lake. When I was young and had no where to go and all the time in the world to get there, a couple of buddies and I thought we had one hemmed up, but he thought otherwise.---Pooch

He was probably trying to find my treestand!

[ricky]

This came toward me while I was crappie fishing in KY lake. I was at the mouth of a bay. He crossed to the other side. He was surprisingly very fast.

[CrappieLips]

Must have seen some Nut's on the otherside.