rare 400-pound spotted eagle ray jumps into boat, gives birth

rare 400-pound spotted eagle ray jumps into boat, gives birth

Source: Fox News

7/19/2022

Credit: April Jones

When an Alabama family set out to wrangle a big fish for the 2022 Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo, the last thing they expected was to see a rare spotted eagle ray come flopping into their boat.

April Jones, along with her son, husband and father-in-law, were fishing off the waters of the Sand Island Lighthouse near Dauphin Island, Alabama, last Friday.

That's when the estimated 400-pound ray jumped out of the water and landed in their boat — smacking into Jones along the way.

Jones told Fox News Digital in an interview this week, "We were participating in the Alabama Deep Sea Fishing Rodeo. We were out fishing off the coast of the Sand Island Lighthouse on Friday and I wasn’t catching anything — but my husband, husband’s father and son all were."

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