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sting ray barbs(flounder gigging spinoff)
Posted on 3/5/14 at 9:02 am
Posted on 3/5/14 at 9:02 am
reading that thread got me to thinking...how many of you have suffered from the sting ray barb? I recall reading a story in the old LA conservationist magazine as a kid about a guy who took a barb to the leg and had difficulty walking months later it was so bad. I've taken the "cut the line" approach since then when hooking one.
is it THAT painful?
is it THAT painful?
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Posted on 3/5/14 at 9:05 am to specchaser
Steve Irwin
This post was edited on 3/5/14 at 9:06 am
Posted on 3/5/14 at 9:11 am to specchaser
No idea. I just know that when I was a kid, they told me to shuffle my feet. It scared me enough that I've heeded that warning since.
Posted on 3/5/14 at 9:12 am to specchaser
Don't know, don't want to know!!!
Posted on 3/5/14 at 9:21 am to specchaser
My dad will pull them in the boat. Then step on the tail below the barb. Then he cuts their face off with his knife.
Posted on 3/5/14 at 11:04 am to specchaser
Took one straight to the achilles back in 02, roughtail ray straight smoked my ankle and almost had to amp. Shits no joke, like a blowtorch getting held on a deep open wound once that venom gets steady and goes to work
Posted on 3/5/14 at 4:41 pm to specchaser
It's extremely painful. I stepped on one wade fishing one morning in GI several years back. I have a scar on my right instep. The pain shot all the way up to my right shoulder. I applied hot water and took an 800 mg Ibuprofen almost immediately after it happened, and although it still hurt for a few days, I was back out fishing later that evening.
Posted on 3/5/14 at 7:52 pm to specchaser
Captain of our boat in the Cayman Islands got stung in the knee.
Apparently they don't sting you unless they feel threatened.
We were all swimming with hundreds of them around us in clear water. They'd come swim up under your feet and everything.
The captain was holding one so everyone could take a picture with it. After a while it escaped his arms and he jumped after it. I suppose it felt threatened and stung him. I got the frick out of the water after that. It was bleeding, but he said he was fine and it was the first time it happened to him.
Apparently they don't sting you unless they feel threatened.
We were all swimming with hundreds of them around us in clear water. They'd come swim up under your feet and everything.
The captain was holding one so everyone could take a picture with it. After a while it escaped his arms and he jumped after it. I suppose it felt threatened and stung him. I got the frick out of the water after that. It was bleeding, but he said he was fine and it was the first time it happened to him.
Posted on 3/5/14 at 8:33 pm to specchaser
It doesn't have venom, but the barb is similar to blue crabs and a swordfish.
They have a marine bacteria that will infect and the infection can get painful. My pinky swelled up to the circumference of my index finger.
While on the subject, we shucked a peck of live crabs. The "merus" or the little barbs on the "bicep" of the claws are what would jab us while we overcompensated on opening them. We were never pinced by the claws. Got infections on our hands and finger......always use gloves.
They have a marine bacteria that will infect and the infection can get painful. My pinky swelled up to the circumference of my index finger.
While on the subject, we shucked a peck of live crabs. The "merus" or the little barbs on the "bicep" of the claws are what would jab us while we overcompensated on opening them. We were never pinced by the claws. Got infections on our hands and finger......always use gloves.
Posted on 3/7/14 at 8:16 am to specchaser
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is it THAT painful?
HELL YES! I got stuck in the hand during a drunken trot lining experience. Damn thing went in between my middle and ring finger on my right hand. Made a hole big enough for a q-tip and made me bleed like a hog. The throbbing was terrible and i couldn't make a fist for two weeks. Soaked it in hot water and commenced to drinking heavily since we were at an isolated camp miles away by boat from anything.
Posted on 3/7/14 at 10:50 am to specchaser
i was laying on a raft when i was 13 or so, belly down, scoot around in about 1 foot of water by grabbing the sand with my two hands in front of the raft and pulling my self forward, after doing this a while I grabbed something that felt like a serraded knife
ended up being a sting rays barb and it swam away slitting my middle finger all the way down to the bone
i still have the scar, extremmmely painful
in regards to gigging, i didn't post in the gigging thread but a few summers ago a buddy's FIL had a gigging boat and we went out all the time, probably gigged 100 sting rays a night and cut off every last one of those frickers' barbs
ive also stepped directly on a catfish's dorsal barb, it went all the way through the sperry's and 2"-3" into the middle of my foot
frick
ended up being a sting rays barb and it swam away slitting my middle finger all the way down to the bone
i still have the scar, extremmmely painful
in regards to gigging, i didn't post in the gigging thread but a few summers ago a buddy's FIL had a gigging boat and we went out all the time, probably gigged 100 sting rays a night and cut off every last one of those frickers' barbs
ive also stepped directly on a catfish's dorsal barb, it went all the way through the sperry's and 2"-3" into the middle of my foot
frick
This post was edited on 3/7/14 at 10:51 am
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