LITTLE ROCK, Ark. - It's a fish tale that packs a wallop so strong it broke the jaw of a southeastern Arkansas teen and covered him in fish blood and guts. Seth Russell, 15, of Crossett was cruising Lake Chicot on a large inner tube towed by a boat when a Silver Asian carp leaped from the water and smacked him in the face. Seth was knocked unconscious. "He doesn't remember anything at all," said the boy's mother, Linda Russell. "He was laughing, and the next thing he remembers, he is waking in a hospital." The teen has had oral surgery to wire several teeth together and has back pain that doctors attribute to whiplash from the high-speed collision, his mother said.
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