High-flying sturgeon causes havoc

[Metal Angler]

High-flying sturgeon causes havoc
GAINESVILLE, Fla., April 25 (UPI) --

A Florida woman suffered serious injuries when a high-flying Gulf sturgeon leaped out of the water and into her fiance's boat.

The fish also did about $1,000 in damage to the boat, the Gainesville Sun reported. Whether the fish survived is unknown.

Dawn Poirier of Kenneth City and Johnston Staples III of St. Petersburg Beach were fishing on the Suwanee River in northern Florida when the 3-foot-long fish struck on Saturday. The impact knocked Poirier off her feet.

Staples headed for shore and a nearby house where the occupants called an ambulance. Poirier suffered a spinal fracture, fractures to bones on her face and shoulder abrasions.

"It's like she slammed into a brick wall," her father, Ed White, said.

The Gulf sturgeon, a large fish covered in bony plates, typically causes one or two injuries in a year, a spokeswoman for the Florida Fish and Wildlife Commission said.

[White Shark]

Wow! Fish beating on people that's awsome. There's a river in Maryland that a type of carp jumps up out of the water. The noise from a motor scares them or some thing. They're pretty big too. People motor around with nets and try to catch them out of the air. There are warning posters to be alert because these fish have knocked people over and out off boats.

[Metal Angler]

Rich that reminds me of a news broadcast last summer i seen on TV about Asian Carp i think ?DNR were worried about them making there way into lake Ontario. Ya but really those fish were jumping out of the water if you scared them ,all along the shore line was bubbling right below the spill gates of Lake Erie or Ontario.I guess a few reports were about those fish hitting people as they jumped into the air as they get spooked by the boat engine noises. Some of them were a good size wish i could have been there with the fly rod. They kinda resembled a freshwater tarpon to me well at least the shape of the fishes head anyhow.
Betcha they would put up a really GREAT fight on the fly rod? ;D