Jumping sturgeon injures woman in Fla.

[ccmtcanada]

Wow...this has really got to suck!!! I think I'm gonna need a bigger net if I visit down there!!!

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Jumping sturgeon injures woman in Fla. Tue Jun 12, 7:10 AM ET

 

ROCK BLUFF, Fla. - A woman was injured over the weekend by a leaping sturgeon, the latest incident involving the flying fish on the Suwannee River, officials said.

 

Tara Spears, 32, of Bell, was knocked unconscious by the animal on Sunday while boating on the river north of Rock Bluff, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission reported.She was taken to a hospital with non-life-threatening injuries and was expected to recover, the agency reported.

 

The large, prehistoric-looking sturgeon have hard plates along their backs. They can grow up to 8 feet long and up to 200 pounds.

 

In April, a leaping sturgeon severely injured a 50-year-old woman from St. Petersburg who was riding a personal watercraft on the Suwannee River. She suffered a ruptured spleen and had three fingers reattached by surgeons, but she lost her left pinkie finger and a tooth.

[Headhunter]

Interesting... I didn't know that Sturgeon were so aggressive as to remove a pinky?!! Nest time she should try bait instead of digits!LOL

HH

[tonyb]

That's awesome!

 

Tony

[fishindevil]

WHAT THE????????....never heard anything like that before,thats just plain weird

[Flappn]

I thought Sturgeon stayed down real deep at all times. Guess I was wrong.

[Kev]

A few weeks ago we could see the sturgeons jumping out of the water near the falls here (Sturgeon Falls). It's kinda crazy seeing those big fish breaching the surface.

 

MNR was there netting the sturgeon to take measurment and ect.. While i was watching they lifted 4 of them, not verry big ones but still in the 30-40 lbs range.

[Patches]

Nice to hear the Sturgeon and finally doing something about the pesky PWC

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[Greencoachdog]

Them Sturgeons must really hate the wimmin folks!!!

[Shelley Cooper]

Or maybe their just desireable

[Carp]

Weird.

I guess the sturgeon don't like pwc's.

 

I still don't understand how that person from April's accident chopped the fingers off ?

Weird.

Weird.

Weird.