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Slippery rock Gazette
July 2020|17 Sturgeon
Surprise
Anine-year-old boy in Tennessee became the third child in his family to catch a mon- ster fish, reeling in an 80-pound sturgeon that outweighed him by far.
Coye Price was eager to catch something big after his 11-year- old sister Caitlin hooked a 40- pound striper and his 8-year-old sister Farrah reeled in a 58-pound blue catfish a while back, the Tennessee Wildlife and Resource Agency said in a Facebook post.
“Coye had been saying, ‘Man, I don’t have nothing on these girls, I’ve got to catch a big fish,’” Coye’s father, Chris, told the Tennessean. “So not only did he catch a bigger fish than they had, but sturgeon are rare, which is the other cool part about it.”
Coye, who weighs just 55 pounds, was targeting catfish in Old Hickory Lake before he hooked the sturgeon. It took him 15 minutes to get the fish in the boat, where they weighed it and took some pictures before return- ing it to the water, the Tennessean reported.
The endangered lake sturgeon are some of the largest and lon- gest-living fish in Tennessee, the state’s wildlife agency said. There have been efforts to restore the species, which can grow up to eight feet and live up to 150 years, after their population declined due to reasons including overfish- ing and habitat loss.
The agency said more than 220,000 lake sturgeon have been stocked into the Cumberland River and portions of the Tennessee River since 2000.
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“I missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I’ve lost almost 300 games. 26 times I’ve been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I’ve failed over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.”
— Michael Jordan
Don’t Touch My PPE
Somebody apparently needed a really big protective mask.
According to the Chicago Sun- Times, a mask adorning one of the iconic lion statues near the Michigan Avenue entrance to the Art Institute disappeared about 24 hours after it was applied.
Good news for the lion, though. By that Friday afternoon, it got a
new mask like the one the other lion nearby is wearing. But to make it tougher for thieves to steal them, the new mask and the one on the other lion are now held on with cables that are a lot tougher to cut.
Police are investigating the theft and are looking for two men whom a security guard saw get out of a black Chevrolet, climb onto one of the statutes and cut the mask from the lion’s head.
The large-scale masks were in- stalled to remind people to fol- low a statewide mandate that
started requiring people to wear masks in public places during the coronavirus crisis. The Picasso statue in nearby Daley Plaza is also wearing a mask.
The lions are used to wear- ing head gear. They sported Cubs caps in 2016 when the team won the World Series and Bears helmets twice be- fore the team’s two trips to the Super Bowl.
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