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
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/images/giant-sturgeon.jpg

[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

[subseawellhead]

Sturgeon can't jump, they have no legs dummy. A sturgeon breeder?? does he put a paper bag over their head first?