Posted on 09/08/2008 7:01:26 AM PDT by martin_fierro
Fish flies out of lake, breaks Arkansas teen's jaw
Sun Sep 7, 8:26 PM ET
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - It's a fishing tale that packs a wallop so strong it broke the jaw of a southeastern Arkansas teen and covered him in fish blood and guts.
Seth Russell, 15, of Crossett, was cruising Lake Chicot on a large inner tube towed by a boat when a Silver Asian carp leaped from the water and smacked him in the face. Seth was knocked unconscious.
"He doesn't remember anything at all," the boy's mother, Linda Russell, said last week. "He was laughing, and the next thing he remembers, he is waking in a hospital."
The teen has had oral surgery to wire several teeth together and still experiences back pain that doctors attribute to whiplash from the high-speed collision, his mother said.
He's not the only one who's has a run-in with the "flying" Silver Asian carp.
"They do not fly, but they are quite good jumpers," said Carole Engle, director of aquaculture and the fisheries center at the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff. "Over the past year, we have had some calls about fish jumping and causing injuries on Lake Chicot.
"Their jumping behavior is a problem, and their population appears to be growing there," Engle said.
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The fish is busy telling his friends about the one that got away.
This can happen if you’re soused to the gills. Or fried.
If fish are flying in to your face, yur using the wrong bait... or maybe not. ;-)
Kid will learn to leave off the Axe before fishing.
This story sounds really fishy to me.
We( well ,I can't hit the broadside of a barn)use bows and arrows on them.
You know it’s a weird day when THAT pic gets posted twice....
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