Milton brothers struck by leaping sturgeon
Two brothers from Milton, Florida are the latest victims to get clobbered by a leaping sturgeon.
Sam, 43, and Chris Parish, 25, were enjoying a leisurely morning of bass fishing on the Yellow River June 28 until a leaping Gulf sturgeon, estimated 5 – 6 feet in length, came over the bow and hit both men in their faces and upper bodies. They escaped the encounter with minor cuts, scrapes and bruises. The sturgeon ended up back in the river.
Neither brother required medical treatment.
Sam ended up with a cut over his left eye and a cut to his right forearm.
“My wife said I should have gotten stitches to the cut over my eye but I didn’t. It did leave me with the perfect impression of a pectoral fin in my right arm but it went away after a while,” he said.
Sam said he was in the boat’s rear seat and the collision knocked him out of his seat and against the outboard motor.
