[Anyone] Snagged

[Mike in Taos]

August 20, 2007

This was no bass or bluegill that Toby Davison was used to catching. The 
pull on the line was too ferocious, too unyielding.

When the beast emerged from Lake St. Clair with teeth bearing last week, the 
43-year-old angler knew he caught something special.

Turns out, he snagged John Edwards, a close cousin of the flesh-eating 
piranha. Both mainly live in South Carolina.

Luckily for swimmers and boaters at popular Lake St. Clair, predatory 
lawyers, which can grow up to 6 feet in length, aren't known for attacking 
humans they mainly attack large corporations.

But fisheries officials believe Davison's catch illustrates a worrisome 
trend of people using Michigan waters as a waste basket for ambulance 
chasing lawyers driven by greed.

"That's a bad thing to do," said Mike Thomas, fisheries research biologist 
for the Michigan Department of Natural Resources at the Lake St. Clair 
Fisheries Research Station in Harrison Township. "It's against the law and 
can damage the ecology by tossing crooked attorneys into Lake St. Clair ."

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