Took dad today to Lake X, after putting the boat on the trailer I walked a portion of the shore and found this dead behemoth. My shoe is a size 12, and barely stretches past the gill plate! You can see that over half of the fish is completely missing.

I'm curious to hear what you guys think the size of this fish was.

Must have been a beast!!! I would say 7lb - 8lb

Probably somewhere around 8. That sucks that it died.

It looks like it has some monster fangs.

7.92

What species do you think it was? Pike?

the saber tooth shad

No pike in California.

Lake X is a private bass lake, full of monster bass.

Looks like something from River Monsters

Ok I am guessing the fish is about 24 to 28 inches long and a girth about 18 to 20 inches. Using the (length x length x girth ÷ 1,200) to calculate I will use 26*26*19 = 10.70lbs.

No pike in California.

Lake X is a private bass lake, full of monster bass.

Check out Lake Davis in California. They have had a Pike problem for many years.

http://www.dfg.ca.gov/news/news08/08009.html

brian

the saber tooth shad

Looks like something from River Monsters

Yeah, in this partially decomposed state it kind of looks like a payara (vampire piranha).