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re: Son got got by a catfish
Posted on 5/29/18 at 8:31 am to TigrrrDad
Posted on 5/29/18 at 8:31 am to TigrrrDad
My biggest concern now is that flesh eating bacteria that is killing people or causing so much infection that limbs are being amputated, and a lot of the cases stem from injuries like your son suffered.
Hope all works out well and there are no issues.
Hope all works out well and there are no issues.
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Posted on 5/29/18 at 8:32 am to Floating Change Up
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I apologize for disparaging remarks about your son... but his tats are definitely the tattoo version of the infamous herp-a-derp bobcat taxidermy
Truth. And I rag him constantly about it. He tattoos every thought that pops into his head. And he had a couple friends “earning to tattoo and he let them “learn” on him. I’m not anti-tattoo - I have a full and a half sleeve, but mine are works of art. His are horrible.
This post was edited on 5/29/18 at 8:33 am
Posted on 5/29/18 at 8:33 am to TigrrrDad
I got stung twice by catfish. Neither time was very deep, just enough to draw blood. Once by a big nasty blue cat, and once by a hard head the size of a crank bait. Both were sore for a week. I actually thought about those two times yesterday, when my girlfriend and I were fishing and she caught her first two catfish. I made her swing em over to me so I could flip em off with the plyers. She asked if they stung, and it gave me a flash back.
Posted on 5/29/18 at 8:37 am to gumbo2176
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My biggest concern now is that flesh eating bacteria that is killing people or causing so much infection that limbs are being amputated, and a lot of the cases stem from injuries like your son suffered. Hope all works out well and there are no issues
He called me from the hospital and said they pulled it out and gave him a prescription, but he was still waiting for the IV. He said, “ I’ve been waiting awhile and they gave me an Rx, so can I just leave? Do I really need the IV antibiotics?” I was like, “Depends...do you want to die?”
This post was edited on 5/29/18 at 8:38 am
Posted on 5/29/18 at 8:42 am to TigrrrDad
Several years ago I was fishing Lake Ponchatrain in a 16' Boston Whaler. I accidentally stepped on one that fell off my hook as I bringing it over the side. The barb went through my shoe into my foot.
In college I got hit in the head with a tire tool...I'd rather relive that than that damn catfish.
In college I got hit in the head with a tire tool...I'd rather relive that than that damn catfish.
Posted on 5/29/18 at 8:46 am to TigrrrDad
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He called me from the hospital and said they pulled it out and gave him a prescription, but he was still waiting for the IV. He said, “ I’ve been waiting awhile and they gave me an Rx, so can I just leave? Do I really need the IV antibiotics?” I was like, “Depends...do you want to die?”
Yeah this is nothing to treat lightly, especially with the incidents like I described. I've heard of several horror stories about people being pricked by shrimp, bitten by crabs, stung by something in the water and it just runs rampant when it get hold of the body.
Better to be safe than sorry. I hope for his sake it's all for naught and he'll be fine with only a painful memory.
Posted on 5/29/18 at 8:50 am to gumbo2176
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Been stuck more times than I care to remember. The worst was when I stepped on a dead catfish lying in the sand in Waveland as a kid. Luckily the whole barbed fin pulled out clean but it did hurt like hell and I too had to get a tetanus shot over it.
Gulfport for me and I was around 5.
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Old wives tale is to rub the side of the catfish over the wound and the slime from the fish will ease the pain----that don't work.....
Yep, real old school there.
Posted on 5/29/18 at 8:52 am to TigrrrDad
About 10 years ago I was fishing near GI with my dad and his buddies. Hooked a 3-4 lb hard head. Was unhooking it and it slipped out of my hand and the top bard went through my croc and all the way to the bone in my toe. Dad said I was frozen for a few seconds as the fish just wiggled back and forth. Then began yelling/crying. Fished the rest of the day with my foot under the tattle tail. Not fun
Posted on 5/29/18 at 8:59 am to TigrrrDad
There is an art to holding a hardhead and pulling your hook out. Thankfully usually they are just right in the lip. I stepped on a dead one once. Never again.
If I’m drunk and think that I will get stung I just slap the summbitch into the water till he’s stunned.
If I’m drunk and think that I will get stung I just slap the summbitch into the water till he’s stunned.
Posted on 5/29/18 at 9:28 am to TigrrrDad
ran over a dead one barefoot at night when I was a teen and had the dorsal fin go in the bottom of my foot and out the side. Couldn't get medical attention until the next morning because we were on an island. luckily there was a doctor on the trip.That sucked and was indeed very painful.
got stuck in the hand last weekend in Venice by a small one. Didn't go too far but still had a lot of blood and did indeed hurt like hell for about an hour. cure? more beer. I had the wife clean it up when we got back to the houseboat and my hand hasn't fallen off yet
got stuck in the hand last weekend in Venice by a small one. Didn't go too far but still had a lot of blood and did indeed hurt like hell for about an hour. cure? more beer. I had the wife clean it up when we got back to the houseboat and my hand hasn't fallen off yet
Posted on 5/29/18 at 9:30 am to TheDrunkenTigah
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I would compare it to getting hit real good by a few red wasps on steroids, just a throbbing burn that doesn’t quit.
Good description.
Posted on 5/29/18 at 10:34 am to gumbo2176
Slightly off topic, but a PSA. If you get stuck, or scratched, or pricked, make sure you clean the hell out of it ASAP. My dog scratched my calf last year. Nothing major, barely broke the skin. This happened just before we went to Disney. In just a few days, it went from an innocent scratch to a serious infection. I had to put my vacation on hold and go to the ER where they scraped away the infection. I'm left with a scar about 3" in diameter.
Posted on 5/29/18 at 10:44 am to SportTiger1
We were at a lake house one year and my catahouala (RIP Levi) was roaming around exploring. Suddenly, I heard the most awful sound I had ever heard a dog make. It was a mixture between a yelp/howl/bark at 100 decibels that went on for 30 seconds before I could get to where he was.
I turn a corner and Levi is running towards me, his eyes wide with fear...he had a 24" half-decomposed catfish dangling from his hip.
Apparently he found a dead catfish and decided to take a roll-in it. He was running around like a possessed demon all while shrieking in pain. Finally got a hold of him and had to use pliers to pull the barb/fish out of his hip. He was fine as soon as I got it out and just looked at me with a slight look/smirk of "yea, i fricked up...thanks"
I couldn't help but laugh. That bastard got what was coming to him for rolling in that shite!
I turn a corner and Levi is running towards me, his eyes wide with fear...he had a 24" half-decomposed catfish dangling from his hip.
Apparently he found a dead catfish and decided to take a roll-in it. He was running around like a possessed demon all while shrieking in pain. Finally got a hold of him and had to use pliers to pull the barb/fish out of his hip. He was fine as soon as I got it out and just looked at me with a slight look/smirk of "yea, i fricked up...thanks"
I couldn't help but laugh. That bastard got what was coming to him for rolling in that shite!
Posted on 5/29/18 at 11:22 am to TexasTiger1984
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Apparently he found a dead catfish and decided to take a roll-in it.
That post brought back a very unpleasant memory for me from many years ago. I had a couple of pit bulls, male and female, that loved to be out in the woods with me so I took them out to lower St. Bernard Parish for some squirrel and rabbit hunting. Well, that was not going to happen since they were just running all over the place, but it was fun since they were enjoying themselves.
Long story short, they got real quiet for a while and I started calling them and they finally showed up reeking of the stench of death. They had found something dead and both of them rolled around in it enough that their sides were coated in decaying matter.
I didn't own a truck back then, and had to take them back home, 15 miles in the back of my station wagon. I opened every window in the thing and cracked the back window over the tailgate and it still smelled horrible.
It took me 3 washings before I got the stench off of them once I got home----------then I had to deal with my car.
Posted on 5/29/18 at 11:54 am to TigrrrDad
Gotten stung probably a good 40 times in my life. None were terrible except for a hardhead through the croc. Scariest one though was a small mudcat gave me "blood poisoning".
My catfish sting thread
My catfish sting thread
Posted on 5/29/18 at 11:55 am to gumbo2176
I still have a callous on my thumb from getting finned over 15 years ago.
Posted on 5/29/18 at 12:26 pm to TigrrrDad
Got hit when I was out with my boys when they were younger. Between the heat and the pain I almost passed out. Probably would have just went with it if I was alone but I fought it off so my boys didn't freak out while I was unconscious for a few minutes.
Posted on 5/29/18 at 1:06 pm to junkfunky
Have been stung a couple times by small hard heads, hurt like a mofo, and got lightheaded like some have said. Once was in the knuckle, it wasn't right for a number of years after that. Now I scoop every frickin hard head in the net, letting the net loops hold him from rolling around, remove hook with pliers, dump him back in water. Some are slick with a flipper but too many close calls for me
Posted on 5/29/18 at 1:30 pm to TigrrrDad
Posted on 5/29/18 at 1:33 pm to NASA_ISS_Tiger
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Father of a guy I went to high school died due to complications associated with his immunity and a virus the hardhead he got stuck by. Apparently the virus was in water/on the catfish's skin/fin when he got stuck. He was also a diabetic so he possibly already had a weakened immune system.
I believe I know who you are talking about. Did you graduate from Sulphur High around 1990?
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