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re: sting ray barbs(flounder gigging spinoff)
Posted on 3/5/14 at 10:25 pm to Contender54
Posted on 3/5/14 at 10:25 pm to Contender54
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If you shuffle your feet, the stingray sees you coming and gets out of there....or if you brush up against the edge of it, the stingray might not feel as threatened (compared to getting stepped on out of nowhere).
I've actually had one stingray follow me around for about twenty yards one night while floundering at Ship Island. Creepy as hell. Jabbed at him with my gig, but he wasn't scared off.
ETA: Hoist from that night:
This post was edited on 3/5/14 at 10:31 pm
Posted on 3/5/14 at 10:54 pm to CroakaBait
It hurts like an SOB. I was wade fishing and had one on the line and when I reached the liter it spun and stuck in my hand. Bled for a good while and then the pain began. Googled what to do and then ran to hospital.
Posted on 3/5/14 at 11:00 pm to geaux54
Funny thing about fishing bottom around the MS Gulf Coast bridges and bays is that you're more likely to catch a stingray whose tail has already been cut off from a previous fisherman.
Posted on 3/7/14 at 2:41 am to BayouBrawl
Shuffle your feet. Sure it works.
But. But. But!!!
Shuffling your feet also scares off flounders. See OP subject title re. "flounder gigging spinoff".
My reply is also intended for the numerous posters who agreed with "shuffle your feet".
What are each of you trying to do? Gig a flounder? Or scare off both stingrays and flounders in order to avoid a stingray barb?
To gig flounders, you "must" (IMO) take a chance and not shuffle your feet.
If you are casting while wading and trying to avoid being nailed by a stingray's tail/barb, by all means shuffle your feet. Just don't try that if you are flounder gigging. That's my opinion.
BTW, I have gigged stingrays while flounder gigging in the past. Now, that's a problem. You must be able to identify correctly. Correctly...
Good fishing.
But. But. But!!!
Shuffling your feet also scares off flounders. See OP subject title re. "flounder gigging spinoff".
My reply is also intended for the numerous posters who agreed with "shuffle your feet".
What are each of you trying to do? Gig a flounder? Or scare off both stingrays and flounders in order to avoid a stingray barb?
To gig flounders, you "must" (IMO) take a chance and not shuffle your feet.
If you are casting while wading and trying to avoid being nailed by a stingray's tail/barb, by all means shuffle your feet. Just don't try that if you are flounder gigging. That's my opinion.
BTW, I have gigged stingrays while flounder gigging in the past. Now, that's a problem. You must be able to identify correctly. Correctly...
Good fishing.
Posted on 3/7/14 at 4:08 am to TaserTiger
I cut my finger on a barb whilst I was collecting my war trophy off a big one I caught.
Burned like fire.
Burned like fire.
Posted on 3/7/14 at 5:00 am to hardhead
I went gigging a lot with my Uncle when I was younger and always shuffled my feet. We ALWAYS came back with flounder. Shuffling works.
Posted on 3/7/14 at 6:59 am to CHEDBALLZ
I stepped on one early one morning this past year at St. George Island. I had waded out to cast, and was walking backwards to shallower water, peeling off line. I felt it under my foot and I just knew I was a goner. I must have stepped on him in just the right place, because I didn't get stung. I was a lot more careful from then on though.
I just looked it up. Looked like this one:
FL Rays
Now I know why I didn't get stung. This kind doesn't have a stinger. But, it is an "electric ray". Now I don't know why I didn't get shocked.
I just looked it up. Looked like this one:
FL Rays
Now I know why I didn't get stung. This kind doesn't have a stinger. But, it is an "electric ray". Now I don't know why I didn't get shocked.
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 8:41 am to Teague
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But, it is an "electric ray".
I was in gulf shores two years ago and I got the shite shocked out of me by something underwater. My first thought was that someone had a dock wired incorrectly somewhere nearby and it was shocking me through the water (as an electrical engineer I can confirm that this has happened in the past and can easily cause people to drown). I got out of the water. Got back in later in the afternoon, and was swimming around with my goggles on, and i noticed these two black holes in the sand underwater. Poked at it with my net and one of those electric rays took off from under the sand... Once I knew what to look for, I found dozens of them. I spent the afternoon netting them and taking pictures because they look cool as shite. Later found out they're endangered, but I had let them all go unharmed anyway. Pretty neat experience.
Posted on 3/7/14 at 8:44 am to gorillacoco
The elusive "skate".
I was in gulf shores last year and those bastards were shocking the shite out of my ankles.
It felt like a 9V battery to me, and a guy walking down the beach told me his kids were getting hit by them also, so he researched and found out that it is a "skate".
I was in gulf shores last year and those bastards were shocking the shite out of my ankles.
It felt like a 9V battery to me, and a guy walking down the beach told me his kids were getting hit by them also, so he researched and found out that it is a "skate".
Posted on 3/7/14 at 8:51 am to Polar Pop
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The elusive "skate". I was in gulf shores last year and those bastards were shocking the shite out of my ankles.
Got torn up by those things last year in Gulf Shores as well. They were everywhere.
Posted on 3/7/14 at 8:53 am to Polar Pop
as many times as i've been to gulf shores, id never seen those before. i guess they've moved pretty heavy then. pretty harmless once you realize you're not going to die from the shock.
Posted on 3/7/14 at 9:04 am to gorillacoco
I have been down there every year since 2008, and last year was my first encounter with them, they were everywhere.
I did hook into a huge ray in 2008 while surf fishing cut squid. It pulled me about 1/4mi out and 1/4mi to the right. The whole beach was cheering me on, and after about an hour and a half fight I beached that big bastard....definately a "like a boss" moment
I did hook into a huge ray in 2008 while surf fishing cut squid. It pulled me about 1/4mi out and 1/4mi to the right. The whole beach was cheering me on, and after about an hour and a half fight I beached that big bastard....definately a "like a boss" moment
Posted on 3/7/14 at 10:47 am to TheGreat318
I know, I know...no pics.
My dad was dancing around that thing trying to take a picture without getting a barb to the foot. I will have to see if my mom has any pictures of it on her camera.
As soon as I landed it, it sucked itself onto / into the sand and I couldnt move it at all.
Wild experience for sure, I was actually in Fort Morgan staying in a house just down the road from the fort park. There was a platform not too far from shore and that ray was pulling me dangerously close to it.
I was just floating out in the water while my dad was screaming in my ear the whole time "coaching" me, I had no clue what I had on the line until I made it back to the beach.
My dad was dancing around that thing trying to take a picture without getting a barb to the foot. I will have to see if my mom has any pictures of it on her camera.
As soon as I landed it, it sucked itself onto / into the sand and I couldnt move it at all.
Wild experience for sure, I was actually in Fort Morgan staying in a house just down the road from the fort park. There was a platform not too far from shore and that ray was pulling me dangerously close to it.
I was just floating out in the water while my dad was screaming in my ear the whole time "coaching" me, I had no clue what I had on the line until I made it back to the beach.
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
Posted on 3/7/14 at 10:59 am to Polar Pop
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"coaching" me
There is nothing better than someone trying to coach someone else who is physically exhausted. Thats when the expletives start.
"Keep that tip up, son. Try to wear him down. Bring him back closer this way. Crank down on hi...SHUT THE HELL UP DAD!"
Posted on 3/7/14 at 11:02 am to TheGreat318
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Keep that tip up, son. Try to wear him down. Bring him back closer this way. Crank down on hi...SHUT THE HELL UP DAD
To a "T"!!!
At the time I was a smoker and I just kept yelling "Shut up and light my fricking cigarette!"
Posted on 3/7/14 at 11:10 am to gorillacoco
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gorillacoco
Yep, that's the one. I only saw one of them, but I did see several other sting rays of the more normal-looking variety. I'm sure they were everywhere under the sand.
Posted on 3/7/14 at 1:09 pm to TexasTiger34
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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
I've done this. Not fun at all. Who the frick just leaves a dead catfish on the bank.
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