The fish are fighting back!

[MaNuMaNiAc]

http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/08/09/jet....ap/index.html

Jumping sturgeon whacks jet-skier
WILDWOOD, Florida (AP) -- A man riding a personal watercraft was injured after a 4-foot-long sturgeon jumped out of the water and hit him, wildlife officials said.

Blake Nicholas Fessenden, 23, was heading north on the Suwannee River on Sunday when he was hit and fell off the craft, according to a statement from the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Fessenden was knocked unconscious.

His girlfriend was riding another watercraft behind him and was able to get to Fessenden and hold his head above water before passengers on another vessel arrived to pull him from the water, officials said.

He was airlifted to a Gainesville hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, officials said.

A 31-year-old woman was hospitalized in April after a 3-foot-long sturgeon jumped into a boat being driven by the woman's fiance. The pair was also on the Suwannee River.

Officials at the time said similar accidents occur once or twice a year on the river and that the fish can jump as high as 8 feet in the air and can weigh up to 200 pounds.

[DarkReign]

Holy....200 lbs coming down from 8ft = youre out, dude.

[CosmicCowboy]

that ain't compared to THIS fish fighting back...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americ...cnn_topstories

[ALVAREZ6]

that ain't compared to THIS fish fighting back...

http://www.cnn.com/2006/WORLD/americ...cnn_topstories

Wow.


An 800-pound marlin spearing a man in the chest...how did he survive?

[ShoogarBear]

Um, if any fish in the Tampa area are reading this, I just want to say I have always considered myself a friend of sealife.

[CosmicCowboy]

i've been seriously contemplating doing a trip to Puente Colorado (on the gulf side of the Baja peninsula about 50 miles from Cabo) to go marlin fishing from a kayak...There is an outfit that just started specializing in that...I have caught several marlin from regular boats but have to admit that story was a little spooky...

[ShoogarBear]

An 800-pound marlin spearing a man in the chest...how did he survive?

Jerry Lewis got speared by a swordfish (or marlin, I wouldn't know the difference) in Hook, Line, and Sinker. It was the last scene in the movie, so this is kind of a spoiler.