Mountain lion tales

[awhuber]

1 hour ago, mic said:

How rude, they should get to know you like we do before treating you like an idiot

Wait... did you say you live trapped a mountain lion in Missouri?  PICs please. 

 

http://mdc.mo.gov/newsroom/young-male-mountain-lion-trapped-released-reynolds-county

[snagged in outlet 3]

I'm telling you after they did that it put a new spin on trout fishing alone down there.

Hard to fend off a big cat with a 4 weight.

That's why I use a 5 weight now.

Pete

 

[Foghorn]

Had worked a 330 to 330 switch engine out of Bismarck back in the late 70's and often took the back road Hwy. N to Hwy. W home to Farmington. Was just West of Stono Mtn. when I came upon a big black cat sitting on the side of the road. Looked to be an animal weighing maybe 100 pounds with a long tail .I estimated it at that weight as at the time we had a black female lab that weighed 65 pounds and this cat was a good bit bigger and the tail was a good bit longer than our dog's tail. That area is  pretty rough country even today. Got a lot of heckling from the boys about that sighting. 

[fishinwrench]

I've seen a cougar, a panther (I guess....it was big, black, and tall in the rear like a hotrod Monte Carlo with a tail as long as it's body), and also saw a young white Bengal tiger all here in the LO area.   

The tiger was an escapee and returned on its own to its owners, but the cougar and panther were wild as hell and probably still out there somewhere.

[Dutch]

One of my brothers reported sighting a black one.  Another of my brothers made fun of him until he saw it on his way to his home one night.  He stopped at our house and told us about it.  I went with both of my brothers back to where it was seen.  We saw it in an open field about a mile from where I lived.  It definitely was a cougar and looked black a coal in the car lights.  I hunted it every day after school for a week and never did get another look. 

[trythisonemv]

The black ones are supposed to be jaguar from central America not cougar. They don't come in black. However in some light darker brown back fur looks black. I almost hit one on hwy 39 in Lawrence county a few months ago.  Late at night it stopped in the fence row and was unmistakably a mountain lion. I asked a guy who had lived out there and has land and he said he shot one some years earlier. It got away but he found the fur and blood. 

[Old plug]

They are here. But I do not buy all the tall tails I here about them. I know they have confirmed at least one up on hwy 135 out of Laurie in the Ivey Bend area of LOZ. Also for you city boys there was one confirmed in Wildwood a couple years ago. My son was building a swimming pool there. The conservation agents were all over the place. They talked to him several times. At one time we were told they were all young males. Recently I seen something saying they have confirmed a female somewhere in the state. I never believed we would not wind up with a native population around here. As far as seeing Jaguars B S is my view of that.  Those things are the third largest cat in the world rivaling a lioness for size. They would be munching on people by now. 

[Fish24/7]

i'd like to share my true story about a big black cat. 

They are in MO, and they are as real as you and I.

When I was in second grade(back in the early 80's) I was at a family friends farm out in the woods playing with their kids who were also my age. We went on quite an adventure that day and wound up getting turned around and I guess you could say "lost" in the woods. While trying to find our way back we came to an open field and saw a HUGE black cat maybe 100' away.

We all froze because none of us had ever seen a "kitty cat" that big , but the cat didn't spook. Instead it raised it's tail, and walked slowly away from us ,then stopping and looking back. Then it just sat down and stared at us for a few seconds. Then it started the slow walk away while looking back again with it's tail high in the air. So, being naive kids we were we followed it never once being afraid,or feeling threatened in any way. Well, we followed it, all the way back to the farm road! Then watched  it jump  completely over that dirt road back into the woods.  This was no house cat. It cleared the road in one leap! We told our parents what had happened and they already knew about a black cat that lived on the property, but it was the first time anybody had seen it during the day. 

 

[Amery]

My criteria is not being followed very well. Haha. I personally do not find it probable that there are black "panthers". 

[Flysmallie]

9 minutes ago, Amery said:

My criteria is not being followed very well. Haha. I personally do not find it probable that there are black "panthers". 

Whaaaa? Next you are going to say bigfoot isn't real.