# This is why I don't fish... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 10, 2002, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-dont-fish/123289 "2002-08-10T18:01:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-dont-fish/123289/1 "2002-08-10T18:01:16Z")
[http://espn.go.com/outdoors/conservation/news/2002/0808/1415673.html](http://espn.go.com/outdoors/conservation/news/2002/0808/1415673.html) All I can say is LOL!!! On a side note, a 5 foot fish must wiegh at least 30-40 lbs right? How fast could it possibly be swimming that it could break bones. ---
**Author:** ![Gut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@Gut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gut)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 6:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-dont-fish/123289/2 "2002-08-10T18:10:43Z")
From the article: “No one really knows why they jump,” said Lt. Stan Kirkland of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission. Maybe they are turning the tables and are trying to catch people to eat. ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-dont-fish/123289/3 "2002-08-10T21:41:07Z")
It’s not rocket sturgery. ---
**Author:** ![TVGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/82dd89/32.png) [@TVGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TVGuy)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2002, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-dont-fish/123289/4 "2002-08-10T21:50:43Z")
Washington DC (AP) - The Sturgeon General today announced that it is unsafe to … (oh come on, I couldn’t resist - it’s a slow Saturday) ---
**Author:** ![Reeder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c6cbf5/32.png) [@Reeder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Reeder)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-dont-fish/123289/5 "2002-08-11T00:13:37Z")
> [@](#): > > On a side note, a 5 foot fish must wiegh at least 30-40 lbs right? How fast could it possibly be swimming that it could break bones. I think the ejection onto the beach caused the injuries. Also, he was probably moving at a good clip. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 12:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-dont-fish/123289/6 "2002-08-11T00:16:46Z")
Okay, so this is what they call “crash and release” fishing? ---
**Author:** ![Rysdad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/7cd45c/32.png) [@Rysdad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rysdad)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-dont-fish/123289/7 "2002-08-11T03:00:28Z")
All the reason people should fish more often: to catch the finny little terrorists before they can plan their sneak attacks. As a matter of fact, I believe there’s a carp that’s been watching me just a _leetle_ too closely lately… ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-dont-fish/123289/8 "2002-08-11T03:37:55Z")
> [@](#): > > As a matter of fact, I believe there’s a carp that’s been watching me just a leetle too closely lately… Hey! _Baiting_ other posters ain’t allowed. ---
**Author:** ![jackelope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/a6a055/32.png) [@jackelope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jackelope)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-dont-fish/123289/9 "2002-08-11T04:07:54Z")
From the Associated Press, July 12, 1993: > [@](#): > > **BARRACUDA ATTACKS WOMAN ON BOAT** > > Barracudas generally don’t attack people unless provoked. But don’t tell that to Nadine Cloer, who received nearly 200 stitches after an 8-foot barracuda leaped into a houseboat and bit her hand and leg. > > “I saw him come out of the water like a bullet,” the Tampa-area woman said from her Key Largo hospital bed Sunday. “It was like a torpedo right out of the water.” > > Family members pushed the fish overboard with poles after the attack Saturday off the Florida Keys. > > Ms. Cloer, 46, said she had to have tendons replaced and skin grafts to cover the wounds. > > Barracudas, long, thin predators with razor-sharp teeth, do not usually attack unless speared or provoked by divers or snorkelers. > > Ms. Cloer, a school bus driver, was spending the weekend in a rented houseboat fishing with her family. Her brother-in-law hooked a 5-foot barracuda and she saw it pass under the boat. She went inside the cabin to get a video camera and as she was walking out the door, a much larger one cleared the deck and lunged at her. > > “I still can’t believe the force that it hit me with,” she said. "It was unreal. > > “I don’t have any idea why it attacked me,” Ms. Cloer said. “It is possible the bigger one could have been chasing the one that my brother- in- law had on the line.” Anyone else remember this? ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 6:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-dont-fish/123289/10 "2002-08-11T06:15:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Reeder \* > \*\* > > I think the ejection onto the beach caused the injuries. Also, he was probably moving at a good clip. \*\* Actually, I disagree. The article didn’t give me that impression. I think the crazy ass fish wacked the hell out of his chest and he hit the beach because he was already too messed up to drive hte boat. ---
**Author:** ![Cubsfan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f4b2a3/32.png) [@Cubsfan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cubsfan)\ **Post date:** [August 11, 2002, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/this-is-why-i-dont-fish/123289/11 "2002-08-11T06:17:19Z")
The article says it hit him in the chest and it also mentions another guy who got hit in the chest buy a fish which did some dmg.