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Message: <blockquote data-quote="guywhofishes" data-source="post: 178564" data-attributes="member: 337">Enough with the stalking of these monsters!#$%^&>[h=1]'She could feel her foot in its mouth': Minn. girl bitten 25 times in lake, possibly by muskie[/h]<img src="http://www.wday.com/sites/default/files/styles/16x9_860/public/fieldimages/1/0720/0b5bebmedyj9vzljrmefky0nuu2m.jpg?itok=xcQcjsiS" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />***Editor's Note: A photo at the end of this story shows the severity of the injuries and may be disturbing to some readers.***     DULUTH, Minn.—Ryan  Kesselhon couldn't figure out what was happening to his 11-year-old  daughter, Maren. One minute, Maren had been peacefully dangling from her  family's paddleboard in Island Lake on Wednesday afternoon. The next  second she was screaming wildly."I  couldn't figure out what she was screaming about," Ryan Kesselhon said.  "Then she lifted her foot out of the water, and I could see it was  filleted open in many places."Closer examination revealed she had been cut in 25 places, mostly on her upper ankle and on top of her foot, Kesselhon said."There were nine deep lacerations that required stitches," Kesselhon said.Nobody  knows for sure what attacked Maren while she was hanging on the  paddleboard near the Minnesota Power boat launch on the east side of  Island Lake. But Maren has her hunches."My daughter, right away,  when I pulled her out of the water, she thought it was a fish,"  Kesselhon said. "She could feel her foot in its mouth. She kicked it  with her other foot. It released, but it left a torn-up foot."Maren  had to undergo surgery at Essentia Health to repair her tendon and to  stitch up her wounds, Kesselhon said in a telephone interview Thursday.  Doctors there told him they thought it was likely that a fish had caused  the lacerations.But she seems to be taking the traumatic event in stride, her dad said."She'll  be back in the water," he said. "She's not too shaken. She knows this  was a freak incident and that she'll never experience this again."The  Kesselhon family had been trying to beat the heat on Wednesday at  Island Lake. Ryan Kesselhon, in an old 16-foot boat with a 5-horsepower  outboard, was letting his three daughters take turns riding atop a  stand-up paddleboard towed behind the boat. When they'd get hot, they'd  just jump in the water to cool off. That's what Maren was doing, wearing  a life preserver, holding onto the paddleboard, waiting for her dad to  swing around in the boat and pick her up, according to Ryan Kesselhon.That's when the screaming started.Ryan  and Lora Kesselhon's other two daughters, ages 9 and 13, were in the  boat with him. The attack occurred about 1:30 p.m. Wednesday. Ryan  Kesselhon said the family didn't get home from the emergency room until  about midnight Thursday.Physicians who treated Maren weren't sure what caused the lacerations, Kesselhon said.****************************************************************[bitten 25 times... ba ha ha - who works for these media companies?]<a href="http://www.wday.com/news/4300775-she-could-feel-her-foot-its-mouth-minn-girl-bitten-25-times-lake-possibly-muskie#.WXGK-tljZsc.facebook" target="_blank">http://www.wday.com/news/4300775-she-could-feel-her-foot-its-mouth-minn-girl-bitten-25-times-lake-possibly-muskie#.WXGK-tljZsc.facebook</a><a href="http://www.wday.com/news/4300775-she-could-feel-her-foot-its-mouth-minn-girl-bitten-25-times-lake-possibly-muskie#.WXGK-tljZsc.facebook" target="_blank"></a><a href="http://www.wday.com/news/4300775-she-could-feel-her-foot-its-mouth-minn-girl-bitten-25-times-lake-possibly-muskie#.WXGK-tljZsc.facebook" target="_blank"></a></blockquote>

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