Theres something not right about it for me. Tell me if i'm wrong but no camera takes a picture in those dimensions? If they've resized it to that size then theres a reason behind it. If it was real, they'd have the full picture surely.

I've spent a lot of time at lake windermere, and my dad used to drive the big tourist boats (Tern, Teal and Swan) there between Lakeside, Bowness and Ambleside - he's never seen anything untoward in the '10 miles of magic' as it's often referred to!

Plus when he'd start each morning around 6am the lake would be so still it'd look like a giant mirror, anything moving in the water would be very noticeable! Sorry, but there ain't no monsters lurking in lake windermere!!

Looks like a couple of bin liners with air bubbles being blown by the wind.

And if those are "humps", then that must be one lightweight animal to be that far out of the water.

Not animal imo, just another photo made out to be something fantastic that isn't.

Could it be these guys?
Does any one know if there are turtles on the lake?

I've only just read the full story on the Telegraph website, its not the most read story on the site in the last few days.

The reason its a smaller fuzzy picture is because it was on a phone, makes sense i suppose. I should read before i speak! Haha.

Apparently its the length of three cars and had skin like a seal. I'd love it to be real but with all these lake monsters you have to question how it could live there. It would have to have been there since the lake was created really and it would have to have other members of its species to breed and also is there enough in Windermerre to eat for a large creature like that? As fun as it is, people always miss out key parts like that.

One theory was that it may be some large Eastern European catfish put in there by somebody. Pretty random suggestion. Also i read apparently that they do weekly sonar scans of the lake and they would have noticed a creature that size.

You know most IT people are pretty tech savvy and usually have pretty up to date if not the latest cell phone to deal with their everyday business. Why does this guys cell phone take pictures about as good as a 1976 polaroid? Sheesh I'm a farmer and have a better resolution camera.

There might well be terrapins in the lake, people get them as pets and then dump them.
Source article made me laugh, so obviously from the Sun or another tabloid .

It's a fake. One of the comments below the yahoo article points out that the picture wasn't taken from a kayak...or else the viewing angle would be from down at water level. This picture was taken from a higher elevation. That means the couple had seen the creature in the water while paddling, then paddled to shore, climbed up the bank to take a picture, and were still close enough to take a picture with a cell phone (no zoom).

Therefore: either the creature wasn't moving or they had originally seen it from a long distance and paddled away before it got close. Yet they claim it was moving at 10 mph, and they gave a detailed description of it's skin. So that leaves a gaping hole in their story.

its such a bad pic. it could be anything.

the fact that I can see a wake tells me whatever this is it is probably moving I think it is fake cause there should be some more pics or a video from the phone