Fish attacks swimmers

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090713/od_afp/switzerlandswimmerspoliceoffbeat_20090713163025


 

-Brian G

Dude that fish must be badazz! If it were a ling it would barely be a keeper.

"Two swimmers were treated in hospital for bite wounds up to 10 centimetres (four inches) long after being attacked"

 

"....he suspected the fish was suffering from a hormonal imbalance which could be responsible for its aggression."

   Why does this sound so familiar...?   

No response from PETA about the wanton execution of this creature without due process? 

"....he suspected the fish was suffering from a hormonal imbalance which could be responsible for its aggression."

   Why does this sound so familiar...?   

I refuse to comment as it may have a disastrous effect on my WAF account...

What in hell kind of name is Zander for a fish anyway? It sounds like a european high wire family name. AND NOW THE AMAZING ZANDER FAMILY. TA DA!

What in hell kind of name is Zander for a fish anyway? It sounds like a european high wire family name. AND NOW THE AMAZING ZANDER FAMILY. TA DA!

Zander family? Wasn't that my x wife's maiden name? Now it's all starting to make sense.   

You have just entered...The Zander Zone!
X X X

Awesome!

Zanders are similar to walleye, I believe, and are sometimes referred to as pike-perch.

Interesting...

If I get bit by a salmon maybe someone will cook it up and offer it to me for lunch for my troubles.   

Saw a lady swimming in the Redwood Shore Lagoon not long ago - while I was secretly fishing for bait fish......anyway, she swam up to me and asked if I knew of any type of fish that looked flat and had yellow stripes on it. I told her it was most likely a starry flounder. She then showed me her thumb and it had a bite mark on it. Apparently a flounder must have thought that her bright shiny water proof watch was some kind of "treat" and attacked her I told her that it was simply a mistaken identity bite. She was thankful to know that it was not a common occurrence

... then I told her about Dan's GW attack at Bean Hollow in 07.....she then said she'd rather deal with the rabid flounder

thats hilarious

that fish pic two above looks pretty wicked!!!

Non-zander-related hijacking: A couple of years ago there was a seal that started biting the swimmers in Aquatic Park in SF.  I used to swim down there back in the 80's but dropped it and never got back into it (funny thing about freezing cold water w/ no wet suit).  But my brother in law still swims there.  Anyhow, at the height of the seal situation, my brother in law was swimming alone along the beach one day when he felt a whiskered mug nuzzling the bottoms of his feet and I think it may even have brushed him.  Imagine this wearing a speedo and it seems insane he calmly kept swimming instead of "running on water" to get back to shore like I would have.  Yikes.  But a woman swimmer who was out there a little later had a different approach and raised her fist like she was going to hit the seal.  And it reacted: she struggled back to shore and had to go to the hospital with about 10 deep bite marks.  Really nasty.  I guess the point I am making is that aggressive reactions by humans to aggressive animals (GWS, mountain lions, seals etc) sometimes seem to work and sometimes have the exact opposite result. Accounts of GWS attacks seem to encourage an aggressive action against the shark.  But people say that is the wrong approach to a mountain lion; you should look big, stay calm and back slowly away.  Not sure how this helps against a hormonal pike perch, sorry. 

 But people say that is the wrong approach to a mountain lion; you should look big, stay calm and back slowly away.  

I read a study a few weeks ago that said you should run from a mountain lion. I have seen 3 mountain lions while jogging in the American River canyon ( we have a few attacks every decade).  Each time I tried to calmly back away, and I am still here  , so the study seemed a bit counter intuitive and against conventional wisdom.

I will try to find the study and post it here.  

Edit:
Here is a summary of the study from UC Davis News
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=9071