Big fish in Missouri river

6 yrs ago video, and i am watching this vid in 2020 dec, anyone else?

It's either a sturgeon or one of those Colombian cocaine smuggling subs. :P

Steve Erwin would have done a flying leap on its back. I miss that guy.

Line from jaws Chief Brodey: We're going to need a bigger boat.

Look at the side of the river and make a reference point for where they are. At both the start of the video and the end of the video, you can see on the right bank that they hardly move at all, and instead it's the current pushing the boat backwards that makes the object 'move past' the boat, and without realising that they've been pushed back, they stick on the motor and go past it again to only be pushed back again when they turn the motor off to let it 'catch up'. To answer the bobbing and weaving thing, currents can make loose underwater objects do that. I don't think anyone could place a bet on exactly what it is, but I'm guessing it's some object that got snagged on something like a rock or some weird plant as it flowed downriver.

I kept waiting for somebody to say "hold my beer ..."

I like how billschannel brought all us here right today, 4 years later 😂 KZhead just woke up so that’s ok...

WOW! Watching in August 2023. That's incredible, love how you guys weren't afraid to get close and keep up with it to show everyone exactly what you were seeing, Awesome footage guy's!

Pallid sturgeon are known to swim near the surface and they can get pretty big. Paddle fish,also called Spoon Bill here in Missouri do the same at times.

2:55 he sounds like golem from lord of the rings

Really nice, low budget special effects. Log or something stuck underwater in the fast-moving current. Pull your boat up to it, shut the engine off, allow the boat to drift backward with the current making it appear that "the fish" is moving away. Start the engine pull back up to the sunken log, repeat. Nice job, fooled a lot of people. However, you need only notice that the shoreline never changes. With the speed they appear to be going you would think at some point they would eventually pass that spot of trees on the right bank.

It’s a buoy or something attached to the bottom, it’s stationary and the river current is pushing the boat back giving the illusion that it’s traveling.notice how it’s always going faster when the engine dies down or off . You’ve been duped

Haha! Almost had me fooled till i watched again and saw the shoreline. it's not moving at all. Lol good one guys.

time to get Jeremy wade to come check it out . lol

Shovel nose sturgeon. Saw a 10 footer under me once.

I witnessed almost that exact occurence. I was bowfishing in the backwaters where the missispi overflowed it's banks. I have to say that I was awestruck and didn't even try to shoot. I would have a loved to see what it was!

When they turn off the boat its then you notice there moving backwards with the speed of the water, then they catch up to it again. Its stationary

I have been fishing this river for almost 40 years just outside of KCMO and I have seen this and 1 other unexplained thing in this water but I have never been able to get up close like that though that was great, My problem is that its always at night and can never get a good look. I have always heard about the Missouri River Monster but cant say that I have seen it but have seen things that I cant explain. Great Video

The people in the boat are like ‘Why we still here just to suffer’

I guess they have never seen a navigation buoy pulled under by high water flow.

through many years fishing the same river I can tell you Iv seen some massive fish. I think it looks like a very old sturgeon or indeed a bullshark Iv seen three myself and it's a nice spook

I've fished the Mississippi near Alton IL. We caught a 70 lb blue cat that got in the current and used it to its advantage. We also hooked into something that got into the current and headed up river. We pulled anchor and gave chase but were unable to land it. There are huge fish in that water.

It's a river bouy for the barges, when the river goes up it will do that if you look to the right you'll see the big yellow tree, every time they stop the boat, it goes downstream with the current.

The Ponca talk about a giant river monster that lived in the river, that's actually what brought me here I wanted to see if there was any footage or possible pictures of it

Ha! You guys have never seen a buoy before eh? Jeez.

As you can see, it is obviously a pigeon.

Dayam would've been a surreal experience being there in person. So intrigued as to what it was, definitely not a Sturgeon in my opinion.

At 3:46 there is a slight silhouette of a fish. It’s hard to see because the color matches that of the water, but there is some visibility. If it was a buoy, the bump you see at this time stamp would be smaller.

I'm sorry for my previous post! I watched the original video very closely and the truth is that those people are playing with the river's current. If you watch closely, you can see and hear that the guy turns off the engine: that's when the so-called monster starts keeping out with them. The river current starts pulling the boat back and you can see the "monster" going faster. So far so good: the guy turns on the motor but he gives it enough juice to counteract the current. The results is: a monster log following a boat.

maybe you need to call Jeremy from river monsters. you'll be on the tele...

I saw something almost exactly like that on the Columbia River a few weeks ago. I thought maybe I was seeing things, then I saw two of them yesterday. I have not been able to catch it on video but these also included a white spray right above the fish and they were even faster. I'm guessing sturgeon but if anyone knows for sure I'd like to know.

I saw this clip too, watched over and over again, many years ago. That same feeling of disappointment and despair still prevails. Of not really knowing what magnificent, gigantic creature caused such wakes.

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time to call Jeramy Wade from River monsters .

Well... Im not sure what it is. But I have seen lake sturgeon pull off some impressive waves and crazy movement in the water. We do have +300lb lake sturgeon in the Missouri. I have watched them once or twice come up the inlet of the papio creek just south of Omaha during flood stages. Pretty rare though.

That's funny the fish never deviates its direction and I would have to say its a submerged log.

The swaying motion of this creature almost matches the motion of how a paddlefish swims to a point, yet the size leaves me astonished! I know where ima be fishing for now on

Giant catfish? Or giant sturgeon? Maybe a shark? I've heard those can travel all the way up the river from south

I was on the White River below Calico Rock, AR last Saturday, 10/7, with some friends and we witnessed the same thing. And yes we would like to know what kind of fish is this?

i lived in omaha fo 25 years, urban legend has it that when they built the bridge that connects omaha to council bluffs they had hard time finding divers for this reason

Lol.. What ever it is it's stationary. When they shut off the motor they are actually drifting back down stream. Watch in the background every time they catch up to it the same white building is there.

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Where was this at? I just saw the same thing yesterday around the Portland mo area

how is it a log if they said it stopped and changed directions?

I am doing this for Bill!

Never know what is in these rivers.

I have friends pulling 3 and 4 foot flatheads out of the Fox River between Elgin and Aurora IL, so a 5,6,7 foot channel cat is not impossible. I've seen 7 foot sturgeon pulled out of channels/ narrow rivers. Just because you haven't seen anything like it yourself does not mean it isn't possible.

Hmm me no scientist but thats loch ness on a vacation.

Where's the big treble hook for snagging. I'd gladly take a ticket from GW just to put clarification on the situation lmao

Hey dude hold my beer I'm jumping in a little noodle action here...

It's a Bigfoot. He's breathing through a straw.

Where was this at? I honestly say either a huge gar or spoonbill. It's not mammal because of the side to side motion of the wake....

this is not no ordinary fish. fish gets spook an swim off when the boat is that close, but it still kept swimming and doesn't care about the boat.

Was above Mormon bridge one night camping on sandbar and something went up river causing enough wake to rock my 18ft. Ski boat ,whatever it was it was huge

You can drive through Parkville at English Landing Park right down to the Missouri River. About fifteen feet off the shore there was a distubance in the water just like this. When the river was higher the surface would be smooth then suddenly swirl into a whirlpool sucking water a couple of feet below the surface. Then the whirlpool would vanish for a few minutes. People would step off the park's walking trail to stare at the spot, but that murky ol' river would never give up its secret. It was spookier than the devil! Eventually, during a lower river stage, divers discovered a dump-truck that had been stolen decades before and run off into the river.

its JOHN CENA!!!

Heck they should have thrown out a fishing line !

Whatever it is..... It's stationary! The current is moving but the wake isn't. If you look against the shoreline when along side the figure. You notice that it isn't swimming or moving. It's submerged by the current creating a wake and as you throttle down or stop your boat. The current pulls you back creating the idea of a creature swimming. 🤷🏿‍♂️

This is a brach in the river and when they go close seems like a big fish or something else. But when they turn off the motor, the bolt slowly go back, this make lake a fish swimming up stream.

ok folks, i studied this several times and my findings are, lol.... if you watch from the begining and look to the top of your screen, you will see something white across the river, each time they shut the motor off, then you can see they are still across from that white thing again about the same distance, so my findings are ( A BOUIE )... thanks for watching...lol

Nessie has come to USA to check out all her Scottish cousins.

I've never seen any fish stay on the surface like that before. Especially when there's a boat right on top of them. Very strange, would like to know what it is. I think it would almost have to be a sturgeon or a paddle fish

Funny how it never maks any forward progress on the river. Every time you go to the head of the wake it lines up exactly with the same spot on the opposite bank. Always it that straight line. Never swims off when you approach it. It's a damn log in the river.

I live right off of the Missouri river and see things like this all the time. It's just submerged logs

I think its loch ness monster visiting her relative... 😂

Honestly, a few hundred pound alligator gar would probably do this when it swims at the top. I've seen lots of gar swim just below the surface. And as strong as gar can be, it seems to check out

Wow! That was crazy big whatever that was. Did you ever figure out what it was? I never even seen a fish swim that way. That was really interesting thank you I'd love to hear back from you what that was?

They are turning off the engine and the river is pulling them backward but keeping the camera focused on the same shot making it look live its moving upstream. then they turn the boat on and move closer to the buoy and then turn the engine back off and float away from it.

Is anyone here cuz of Bill's channel?

My husband and I seen this exact same thing in the Missouri River near Washington Missouri

1:24. The fish whisperer over here. 🤣😂🤣😂🤣☠️💀

JEREMY!! THERE'S A PADDLE FISH TO WRANGLE

Submerged channel buoy, you can tell since the object is not moving only the river is. This happens all the time when the water is high. If this was a large fish it would be traveling on the shallow side of the river where the current is slower and not the channel side (side closest to the rocks). I'm glad you didn't drive over it or you would have caused some extensive damage to your boat.

Guys its a river marker under water the boats moving not it. At one point you can see the reflection from the tape on it

I have the exact same thing happen on the Kansas river last month, we followed it for two miles. Had people try telling me it was a school of buffalo. Hahah that’s one single fish not multiple.

2:44 omg.. if u look closeley it looks like it has 8 flat fins with circles

A sighting like this at Loch Ness in Scotland would keep the tourist industry happy for decades lol. Probably a very large Alligator Gar hunting for small fish near the surface.

Likely to be just a rock. Fish do not stay nearby when a noisy outboard comes near them. It also seemed to be in the same place and it did not leave the correct kind of wake for an animal swimming up stream.

Must be a sturgeon at that size. Flippin huge

You missed the opportunity to go FULL ON TURTLE MAN!!!

This is obviously a submerged navigation buoy. The buoy is stationary but the Missouri River current makes them look like they are crusing upstream. See them all the time. This is a trick I play on our educational boat trip passengers. On the film, everytime they cut out the motor, the boat starts drifting downstream with the current (3.5 or more MPH on the Missouri River) and they guys are like "whoa there it goes!". You can tell by the landmarks on the bank of the river that they are not moving at all.

I believe this is real, because in one part, you could see a fin or a part of “its” head bob out of the water, and if it was a log or something, it would most likely float at the surface. I am not entirely sure, but that is my guess

#1 It's not swimming up stream, the boad is drifting down stream. #2 It didn't spook when the boat was next to it. #3 The flood of 2011 i believe washed many big cottonwood trees into the river and many are laying on the bottom with a big limb just a foot under the surface of the river. That's just a wild guess, I grew up on the Missouri River.

That's the loch Ness monster, that's what it is...

imagine swimming in the same water then you see this huge fish attack you.

They are very popular in Germany they call them chirstmax fish. They was interduced over here years ago. As algae feeders but they love minnows n worms. Closer to a sucker fish.

So do you have sturgeo there, is it more likely to be a catfish?

from my experience on that river, this is what we watched out for at all times...the vicious large snag, ie tree, below the murky water. 😉

Hahahahaha. These boys have got it going on ..!!!!!!! When the video starts notice the boat on the opposite side of the river .. then as he pans around in full view again ,, notice the boat again on the opposite side of the river ... it hasn’t moved... it’s a coned channel marker under the water,,, when the river rises ,,the marker will sink when it’s at the end of the chain it’s tied to ..... Hahahahahaha. This is a good one ... Thanks ...

Looks like a big paddlefish!

Carp? They are all in that river and some can get pretty big. Been hit by a few while on the boat up the creeks.

I can tell all of you that was without a doubt a fish,there can only be one answer for what kind of fish. I also grew up fishing the Missouri river and the only logical answer to me would be the largest freshwater fish in north america...The White Sturgeon..known to grow up to 1,799 lb and up to 20 ft. it was no buoy that was without a doubt a fish...and that was no average fish,whatever it was i'm sure was in the area of 1,000 lbs or better.the Missouri is a huge ancient river that also flows to the pacific ocean..could also have been a Bull Shark they have been caught as far up river as St.Louis Missouri...

I had an 8ft. Catfish on the line in the Mo. River. The bastard broke my line and nearly flipped the dam boat!!

Where in missouri is this

Somebody didnt give da Loch Ness monster tree fitty so he was hauling ass outta there.

Big Spoonbills / Paddle Fish will swim like this. I've seen some big ones in the Mississippi. I'd bet that's what it is.

That wasn't Nessy, that was Messy. (from missouri)

Can be a alligator gar cause they also live in the Missouri River and can grow up to 10ft tall, or could just be some other big ass fish

Cool video