At present, the unified view is that the Kanas monster is Hucho, but the length of the caught Hucho is only about 1 meter, while it is about 2 or 3 meters observed by technical means. According to the observation of tourists and locals, the body length of the monster even exceeds 10 meter. Kanas is a cold water lake. According to normal logic, it is impossible to feed such a large cold-water fish. Moreover, so far, the so-called observed individuals captured by Hucho taimen are around 1 m, and the so-called observed individuals of 2.3 m are also observed from a distance by placing markers such as wooden sticks and bamboo poles in the water as a reference without close-up image data. Therefore, it is called an unsolved mystery.

Kanas Lake is located in Kanas Nature Reserve in Altay Mountain area in northern Xinjiang, bordering Kazakhstan and Russia in the north and Mongolia in the east, and located in Brzin, a small border county. Kanas Lake is an alpine lake formed by Quaternary glaciation, with low nutritional content. In the past, people always thought that there could be no big creatures. However, local herders have always said that there is a giant "water monster" in the lake, which often drags horses drinking water by the lake. 1980, the sighting of the water monster was published in Guangming Daily, which attracted the attention of people from all walks of life. Since then, tourists have claimed to see water monsters from time to time. 20 12 June, CCTV's "Oriental Time and Space" program broadcast the video "Kanas Lake in Xinjiang reproduces the mysterious' water monster' and lifts the huge waves".