Monday, June 04, 2007

Muskie attacks boy in Minnesota

Paris Copeland loves to swim. Well, the 9-year-old did love to swim -- until a big fish mistook his ankle for a meal as the boy splashed in Lake Calhoun in Minneapolis this week.

The family later was told that the likely culprit was a muskellunge or a tiger muskie -- a muskie-northern hybrid.

Fish bites are very rare, but not unheard of. In 1995, a 13-pound, 38-inch-long muskie bit a youth swimming in Lake Rebecca in western Hennepin County.

- StarTribune (read full story here)

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