Extinct animal?

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Can anyone identify this beastie that was recently photographed in Loch Ness?



Description: Total length 2.5 long

Taken 9mtrs away on shore by a English tourist Steve Challice near the famous Urquhart Castle in Sept 2019

The length size and color are not typical of eels or fish in the Loch but happy to be corrected.

Either the water is moving around the object, or the object is moving through the water (or both), because its leaving a wake trailing to our right.

Might be just a big rock sticking out the water with wind driven small waves and a strong current going left to right. And the wake is angled slightly. Not exactly in line with the lateral axis of the thing.

We have to take the guy's word that its as big as he says (about eight feet long). No real references. Maybe a Scottish local who knows that piece of shore could judge, but not the rest of us.

But it looks like the classic "hump in the water" that folks are supposed to see.you're supposed to see several humps in the water along the serpentine creature's length. But thats the only hump in the pic. Could be a creature with little fur, like a true seal, but not a fur seal.

Speckled trout.

Although, having originated in Australia, it could be an image of a dead dingo's donger, for all we know.

Definitely not a sturgeon. None of the bony plate like scales.

It is fish shaped in cross-section- not round in cross section like a hose, but oval. Longer up and down than sideways in cross section.

Its pinkish and speckled like a trout or salmon. But it has no dorsal fin, and no sign of tail at the wake. Whatever body parts are pushing it along are submerged. Thus it looks like an elongated thing undulating through the water while being propelled by unseen fins, or feet, or something.

Beats the heck outa me.

Freddy the fish.

There. I have named it. He now has been identified!

The problem is that how did a whale get there?

The Loch is landlocked. So I dont see how a sea mammal could get there. Unless its an unknown species of fresh water sea mammal. There are river dolphins in China and in the Amazon, and there is large lake in Nicaragua that has large freshwater sharks (not mammals, but sea creatures) that evolved from normal saltwater ancestors trapped in the lake during the ice age. So maybe there is some freshwater version of a normal sea mammal thats been inhabiting the Loch all along, and thats what folks have been mistaking for the "monster". Or not.

Yes. Thats been the notion for decades...that this creature is real, and that it is a survived plesiosaur.

And Ive gotta admit that that pic does look like the top of a plesiosaur breaking the surface.