ccmtcanada Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 Wow...this has really got to suck!!! I think I'm gonna need a bigger net if I visit down there!!! ======================================================================== http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070612/ap_on_...LNvba6bTdehOrgF 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Headhunter Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 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 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tonyb Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 That's awesome! Tony Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishindevil Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 WHAT THE????????....never heard anything like that before,thats just plain weird Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flappn Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 I thought Sturgeon stayed down real deep at all times. Guess I was wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kev Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Patches Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 Nice to hear the Sturgeon and finally doing something about the pesky PWC 's. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Greencoachdog Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 Them Sturgeons must really hate the wimmin folks!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shelley Cooper Posted June 12, 2007 Report Share Posted June 12, 2007 Or maybe their just desireable Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carp Posted June 13, 2007 Report Share Posted June 13, 2007 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. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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