That sturgeon is kinda big O_O Seen head on that size or bigger I'd probably take a fair while to identify it as a fish, side on or even top down is less of a problem XD And like anyone else I'd probably be out of the water first and asking questions later :O
It's entirely possible that all these stories are just stories that are too good to remain untold, just add your local flavour. I don't know if I told you about how I had this discussion with someone on dA and expanded on it with my sister in chat, about how there seem to be a lot of strikingly similar ghosts throughout Asia. We were all wondering, could there be some truth to this? Or the stories are just that good they need to be spread? XD
I'm with you, I'd be on my toes if anything that massive was in the water with me.
Its amazing how often you hear similar stories across huge tracts of land from unconnected people's. I think that there is possibly a common source of the stories that originate in deep antiquity. Over vast amounts of time the stories migrate with people as they migrate across the continents.
Thanks for reading and commenting 😉