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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scott DeWar" data-source="post: 5551529" data-attributes="member: 49929">boating hazardRhun: i think he is in Texas, south west area.as for the fish, yes this is real. These fish are a boating hazard. Their spiny fins can easily cause serious harm to a boater. They have the strength to easily jump over the head of a full grown person.Here in Missouri on the river there have been some very serious occurrences of these fish knocking large heavy grown fishermen out of their boat and into the water, and knocking the wind out of them. This can be deadly to someone with out proper flotation devices. They eat all of the vegetation of the local sturgeon and gar population. Both of those fish are edible , but are reducing in population, while the Asian carp apparently are not. All of these occurrences are reports by conservation agents/law enforcements that i have spoke with my self.This is a very serious infestation.These fish are actually being researched for recipes for feeding large cats in zoos. There are more then a few teams on this here at UMC.At least catching them is easy: loud buzzing sounds like propeller motors attract them. They fly out of the water and into boats all of the time.</blockquote>