Tight Lines 03-15-09 || How Fishing For Carp Can Get You Killed!

This sounds too funny to be true, but you are about to see a hundred fish jump into a boat. The first video is from a Brazilian fishing show where a genius among fishermen, shows how fishing for carp can get you killed. For quite a while fishermen thought these kooky fish jumping into their boats from time to time was a fluke. A fluke known as “flying fish.”

That is until one day this brain donor figured out why it was happening. The carp were leaping out of the water to eat low flying insects, and what are insects attracted to? Light. Just about anyone who fishes at night is likely to carry a flashlight to keep an eye out for gill-men, Ice Cube or Jon Voight. Well, Einstein here figured out that if a flashlight attracted an occasional bug (bug = fish or fish’) then a floodlight would attrack more.

See the video and read the rest of the article at: http://www.forcesofgeek.com/2009/03/china-sends-super-fish-to-kill-us.html

…that was kind of funny, but the unfortunate bit is that goofball had enough synaptic static electricity in his melon to cut out the bit, no joking around, where a ten pounder shot from the water, knocked him unconscious and out of the boat and he nearly drowned.
Fishing for monsters in a rowboat with a floodlight in a river in Brazil – what could possibly go wrong?

The down side to this hilarity is that these fish, just like people have become an actual ecological threat, in the US.

The silver carp or the Asian Flying Carp as it has come to be known is a freshwater species that originated from north and northeast Asia.
Cultivated as a source of food for China and hysterically funny bio weapon to be deployed against the West. The silver carp was introduced to America in the 1970s to control algae growth in aquaculture and municipal wastewater treatment facilities.”

Dear God! We’re being attacked by flying crap fish!

Who is originally to blame for this?

An Arkansas fish farmer first introduced the silver carp to the U.S. from Asia in 1973. They were originally brought in to control algae and plankton in his fish farms then managed to escape into the Mississippi River Basin in the early 1980's.

The highly invasive species spread into the Illinois, Ohio and Missouri rivers and somehow Brazil.

An unforeseen problem was discovered in the silver carps tendency, not unlike Verne Troyer to grow to a size of forty pounds, and unlike Verne Troyer has an ability to leap up to ten feet into the air when startled or electrocuted, see video below the image or if you’re lazy just look at the image. These dudes are actually shooting electricity into the water to show you how many fish are down below.

See the video and read the rest of the article at: http://www.forcesofgeek.com/2009/03/china-sends-super-fish-to-kill-us.html