--- FrDavidLReagan@... wrote:
> Even Fish are going crazy
>
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> ST. LOUIS (Aug. 28) - Crazy carp have invaded
> Missouri's rivers. > Two species of nonnative carp
have been jumping into boats, injuring occupants and
damaging the watercraft.
>        A state fisheries biologist motoring near
> Columbia had a filling  knocked out of his tooth by
a high-flying fish that struck him on the 
> side of the head. Another state biologist in the St.
> Charles area was  seriously hurt when he was hit by
a giant carp.
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Fr. Reagan+

I've taken the bait in regard to your fish story.
This I have to see, fish jumping into the boats.

I have a travel trailer permanently parked at the edge
of a 3 mile long Ky State lake so that family and
friends can enjoy fishing and the out of doors.

My wife enjoys fishing even more than I do, so this is
not a hide out with the boys.  We are sport
fisherpersons, always returning our catch to the
waters.

Never in the 12 years that we have been visiting that
lake has a fish jumped into the boat.

A friend of mine loaned me the use of his mobile home
that was parked for a few days at Lake Jolly, a small
Ky lake.  I spent a half day chasing a very large carp
around the lake, dropping a variety of lures on his
head.  He refused to be enticed by either artificial
or live bait.  Time after time he would bury his head
in the mud looking for food, and then would surface,
look around, and dive again. 

Finally, I gave up on the chase, exasperated.  Had I
waders or a boat, I would have attempted to net the
beast just to avoid retiring from the fray defeated.
That night, I dreamed of the elusive fish.

Jumping into the boat?  Nah, they are smarter than
that.  They would have the fishermen jumping out of
the boat.

Charles+



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