What about fish who have jumped the boat?

This is getting to be epidemic in northern Florida.....

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070612/ap_on_fe_st/odd_leaping_sturgeon;_ylt=AnfvyMOWpbjy5JBoavgrQOMuQE4F

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.

 

I always love when they shows clips. Just get a big laugh out of some sucker who gets smacked in the face with a fish and falls in the water.

 

and then sinks to the bottom of the lake with bubbles floating to the top...well, maybe not that much.

How do you go about catching these fish, with a baseball glove?

 

8 feet, 200 pounds? I'd recommend one of these....

 

Leaping lizards sturgeons!

 

How about a jumping shark?

 

Ask and ye shall receive.

 

I didn't see that they could grow to be that big. I would just back away and let someone else catch the gills in the grill.

 

ThreeBags: great clip!

 

She should just be glad this didn't happen:



Oh, and be careful when googling images of "Free Willy." :-X

 

Slippery suckers!