ST. LOUIS (AP) - A fishy surprise awaited a St. Louis university rowing crew as they pulled up to dock at Creve Coeur Lake, where they had been practicing.
Benjamin Rosenbaum, a junior at Washington University in St. Louis, was on land with other varsity members when he heard a ruckus in the water. He grabbed his phone and began shooting video of Asian carp, swarming and thrashing around a boat filled with an eight-man crew and a female coxswain.
No one was injured in last week's splashing incident.
Asian carp can leap as high as 10 feet in the air. The fish have had a presence in the lake for at least a decade.