Leaping sturgeon severely injures woman riding water scooter

[Adam]

A sturgeon jumped out of a river and hit a woman riding a personal watercraft causing severe injuries, the latest accident involving the flying fish along the Suwannee River, officials said.

Sharon Touchton, 50, of St. Petersburg, suffered a ruptured spleen and had three fingers reattached by surgeons, but she lost her left pinkie finger and a tooth.

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/florida/sfl-418sturgeon,0,6021588.story


:bigeyes: :bigeyes: :bigeyes: :bigeyes: :bigeyes: WOW!!

 

[meatball]

What a fishing story!

If yamasakis right I bet the 'water scooter' was an 80's doo or a valuable WR500. Anyone else have any fishing tatoo's? I almost lost my thumb last year from a lure on a tandem rig... there was a big skate on the other side of the rig too...

 

[the only couch rider]

it's useless with out pictures

 

[Idok]

thats wierd...sturgeons are bottom feeders........

i didnt even know we had them in FLA....ony place Ive ever seen them is fishing on lake mich and in Canada...

 

[EvanB85]

Crazy story. I think they have decided to team up with the sting rays.

All I know about sturgeon is around here, they grow 'em BIG. Theses beasts are some prehistoric SOBs.

Columbia River Sturgeon

 

[meatball]

The fish is 100 percent fine no doubt. I met a sturgeon breeder (among other fish, for the state) that instead of tagging them for sex, they cut the belly open, and stitch on a plastic zipper, then they heal up, and when its sexing time they unzip and take a peak inside :bigeyes:

 

[djkorn1]

The beast. I didn't know they lived in the south. Here is the Lake Erie Version.
Biggest fish in the Great Lakes.

 

[YAMA CAT]

Freaky Fish Story. Ouch. Those are some big ugly fish

 

[vitaly]

nah, jk, seriously though, didnt some sealion or seal or something totally fk up some girl on a pwc this week or last??

It was a jumping manatee.

 

[EvanB85]

It was a jumping manatee.

I heard it was a leaping sea turtle

 

[Adam]

I heard it was a leaping sea turtle

Im pretty sure it was a disgruntled starfish:theyareontome:

 

[djkorn1]

A pissed-off porpoise. :cat40:

 

[extreemthrottle]

i heard it was a angry angelfish!

 

[C-Rock87]

you're all wrong it was a migrating cuban!
just headin' north for the summer..

 

[Sanford]

you're all wrong it was a migrating cuban!
just headin' north for the summer..

C'mon...Everyone knows they only migrate South Florida.

Well, they do migrate North but that is only because of the ocean current and Gulfstream.

 

[Shonuff]

I wonder if the fish also broke her handlepole. (?)

 

[crammit442]

"caught a hunnerd pound sturgeon on twenny pound test............":biggrin:

 

[2nd nature]

"caught a hunnerd pound sturgeon on twenny pound test............":biggrin:

go fish

 

[vitaly]

"caught a hunnerd pound sturgeon on twenny pound test............":biggrin:

"I did not know them sturgins take them ole wood no rattlin plugs no worms here"

 

[MATT888]

We have a few boat rallies on the suwannee every year and i got an erie feeling last time on the way back to the boat ramp runing 90+mph after seeing 2 or three of them jump out of the water as to what at that speed it would do to me and my boat, some are 4-5 feet long jumping 2-3 feet out of the water, Matt