Vicious carnivorous fish attack

[Digger54]

Cue the "Jaws" music.

I've been contacted by the Discovery Channel for an interview regarding their upcoming "Panfish Week" series. Edge-of-your-seat near-death accounts from survivors.

Do I need to report this to DAN for their statistical database?

 

[Hoomi]

Cage Diving With Bluegill; the next great diving adventure!

 

[SCUBAJENNIFER]

I was doing a little leisurely floating in my local quarry a couple weeks ago and the little buggers were maliciously attacking my feet. Of course it didn't help that someone (Tracker) was throwing pieces of hot dog in the water.

 

[Hoomi]

I was doing a little leisurely floating in my local quarry a couple weeks ago and the little buggers were maliciously attacking my feet. Of course it didn't help that someone (Tracker) was throwing pieces of hot dog in the water.

Here comes the "chumming" debate...

 

[Digger54]

Cage Diving With Bluegill; the next great diving adventure!

Except use screens instead of bars. Like keeping out mosquitos.

 

[Grish]

I simply call them "devil fish." I hate those nasty little buggers. Any time I am in the shallow area of the quarry there are a hundred of the surrounding me, ready to attack. They honestly freak me out lol.

 

[moonlight]

They are mean little ******* I was attacked when I took my gloves off trying to get up a ramp. They hurt when they bite. No amount of kicking the little s*** would keep it away. :bubble_fi

 

[jpsexton]

That's how the "Kentucky Piranha Patrol" got it's name.

This is one of our shirts showing an artists rendering.

 

[charlesml3]

I did a couple of weeks in Palau last November and there were hundreds of sharks around. Almost every dive we saw lots of them. They were harmless....

Now the Moustached Trigger Fish were another matter entirely. Mean suckers. I made the mistake of swimming over one's nest along Uulong channel and it was all I could do to kick him away from me. He took a chunk out of my fin.

Another diver didn't believe my story and found out the hard way. Got the tip of his ear nipped pretty good.

-Charles

 

[sberanek]

We had a guy with an underwater video camera that he could lower into the water to video whatever was down there (read: tons of bluegill). He wanted to see what would happen if he zip tied a hotdog to the camera. It was like watching piranha strip a cow carcass in South America. He didn't even get the camera 1 foot into the water before the hot dog was no more.

--Shannon