Octopus Found In Lake Conway
By: Import User
Updated: January 7, 2009
The Arkansas Game and Fish Commission said
today that a fisherman caught an octopus in Lake Conway near
Mayflower earlier this week.
Fisherman John Mazurek of Glenn Ellyn, Illinois, caught a real,
live, good-sized octopus on Monday at the lake`s dam.
The commission said it can`t explain how the octopus got in the
lake, but a common guess is someone had it in an aquarium and it
grew too big and was dumped into the lake. It was alive when
Mazurek caught it.
He told the commission that the octopus was clinging to one of
the gates at the lake`s dam when he saw it and grabbed it.
Mazurek`s fishing license should cover octopusing. And he didn`t
exceed the daily limit on this species.
The commission said the only violation was the dumping of the
octopus into the lake.
