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Default Asian carp may have breached barrier

On Fri, 27 Nov 2009 21:12:35 -0500, elmer wrote:

http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/70573047.html


When we took our houseboat through the Chain of Rocks canal above St.
Louis, the Asian Carp were jumping behind their boat as we were moving
through the lock, at times up to 6' above the water. I was able to
catch a couple holding a dip net over the water behind the boat. We
had a v-bottom aluminum boat in tow behind the houseboat, and when we
reached the Chain of Rocks lock, we took time to throw the carp that
had trapped themselves in it out of the boat. A big carp can take a
person out of a small boat, and it has happened (especially on the
Illinois river).

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