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)
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment