Posted on 08/13/2010 4:44:28 PM PDT by NavyCanDo
Koral Wira, 14, was fishing with her parents and a friend near Venice, Fla., when a barracuda went for her dad's bait and ended up biting her instead. Her dad, Rob Parker, submitted these photos and Wira told the story.
After anchoring the boat 4 miles off shore, Parker baited his rod with herring. Wira switched seats to get out of the hot sun, and watched as her dad cast. Moments later, she heard a splash and saw a long silver flash in the air. A barracuda jumped from the water and opened its mouth. As it hit her left arm, it clamped down with razor teeth.
She got something like 54 stitches.
LOL
My pike can kick your cuda’s butt any day.
I’ve caught some this size trolling on Biscayne Bay along the causeways. I would catch them within a few feet of the bathers/wadders who shouldn’t be there in the first place. I’ll never forget when I had a hit, it leaped into the air and the nearby bathers took off. It was only about 30” long. Usually they are no threat, I’ve had a school of them behind me once by the Boynton Inlet while snorkling. They just stayed there following me, not looking to have me for dinner. The ones off Venice go after the small grouper you reel up from the bottom. They usually circle the boat about 10” down waiting for you to involuntarily feed them. They do it when you hit a school of Spanish mackerel too. They will leap out of the water when hooked, but I never seen them leap into a boat unhooked.
That’s why they make TV series about them.
“My pike can kick your cudas butt any day.”
Pike are bad thats for sure, grew up with them.
I’ve seen cuda bite a 5 foot king in half with one bite.
Exactly. Deep sea fishing you have to reel in fast to keep the barracuda from chomping the catch. They are ruthless.
Pike and cuda appear to be very similar fish with very similar behaviors. I know pike will often strike right at the edge of the boat and I kind of wonder if that’s what happened here.
My wife and I were diving off Maui doing underwater photography when she came face to face with a Barracuda at least as long as she was. She snapped a quick picture and raced away as fast as she could. We told the owners of the dive shop who scoffed at her story saying it was probably a Mackerel. She showed up an hour later photo in hand and the guys jaw drop. We still laugh at that.
51 the article says.
Yep, with just a few feet of line remaining to reel in, you feel them hit then the line goes slack. You don't even have to look; you know that all that remains of your hooked fish is the head.
If he’s in the photo, who took the pick? Just asking.
OMG...I’m sooo sorry, but I just can’t stop laughing! Looks as if his daughter is ready to take that fish and stick it up dad’s **** where the sun don’t sunshine!!LOL!
Mom was ON the boat.
The only guy I know who has been hurt by a fish got his finger tip bit off by a puffer.
Mom was ON the boat.
OK, I got it.
I really really feel sorry for the poor girl. But that final picture makes me laugh.
When I was Living in St.Croix USVI, There was a legendary Barracuda called “ol bill” that was about5’ long, or so say the tale tellers, that would stalk a swimmer but never attacked any one. So say the legends. I don’t swim in water where the fish are bugger than me
pike are nasty. As a young kid fishing in a creek in western new york I had one come charging out of the water and right at me on the shore. Scared the crap out of me!
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