Got to be careful out there!

I say that every time I head to the lake and most times I am. I got the chance to take Miss Vicki yesterday since it was a beautiful day and she needed to burn some vacation time.

We started pulling Picos and couldn’t keep the 8-9” crappie off our baits. Since the crappie have to be 10” to keep, these little guys were very aggravating.

Vicki caught a nice largemouth then hooked a channel catfish about 6 pounds. She fought it great even though she hates catfish. I netted it and in the process of getting the treble hooks out, it flopped out of my hands. Instantly the pain hit. Bad!

I raised my cargo pants leg up to see blood POURING out of my left ankle. One of the pectoral fins had gone thru my pants and into my ankle. Deep! The blood was very dark so I knew it wasn’t an artery that was involved.

Vicki reluctantly got the pliers and threw the fish back into the lake as I was holding a clean microfiber towel on the wound. She wrapped several towels around my leg and got the bleeding under control. Then I realized I should have checked the fish for broken spines. The wound popped up a knot about the size of a golf ball. We got a large adhesive bandage over the wound but it bled thru it quickly. My tennis shoe was full of blood.

We kept fishing and had an otherwise great afternoon. We caught several more crappie with a few keepers. It was nice to spend quality time with my wife even though she kept saying she felt responsible since she caught the catfish.

When we got home she washed the wound area good and applied antibiotic ointment and a new bandage. This morning the knot is still there but the bandage seems to have confined the bleeding. I’ll be seeing my doctor later today.

I always close my fishing reports with “Let’s be careful out there”. That applies to me too!


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Ouch! At the ankle has gotta hurt. Hope there isn't any fin stuck and doctor can get you fixed up nicely. Gotta be careful out there.

Good reminder that we all need to be careful out there. Glad that you and the wife had a good day otherwise. Wishing you a quick recovery.

Ouch! Hoping it heals sooner than later.

Always gotta be careful! Wishing you a fast recovery!!


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Aww man that’s awful! Another reason to dislike slimers


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JUST DANGET ! OUCH ! kittyfish spine or treble hooks that embedded itself in ya ?

A broken spine in there would get nasty quick if not treated. Hope they make sure it is cleaned out

Dr examined the wound and took a needle and dug around in the clotted blood. She suspects there is something in the wound. I got an antibiotic shot, antibiotic prescription, and sent for x-rays of my leg. I’ll know tomorrow what the X-ray shows. ???[emoji120][emoji120]


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I hope all goes well for you,keep us posted on the outcome.

Good they got you on antibiotics now to curb any infection before it gets started

Would think it takes a whole lot to break off one of those spines.
Back before I saw the light, I used to purposely fish for those nasty things. Old man I fished with dropped one about waist high. Pectoral stuck in his calf like a lawn dart. He jerked it out, rubbed some slime off the fish, rubbed it on the wound. I was speechless, thought hes gonna lose that leg. He passed a couple years back, still had both legs.


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I told Vicki I was supposed to take some belly slime off that fish and rub it in the cut before I asked her to get it out of the boat. I’ve actually done that on small cuts and pokes from cats. This cut was bleeding so bad I would have never gotten slime to the cut.


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Really? I’ve never heard of rubbing slime on a cut.

Those salt water cats was said to have poison in those spines. Either way getting finned by one certainly made for a very sore wound the next day. The slime did make it a lot less sore. 0

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catfish have poison glands that excrete venom in their skin under the spined fins ,when they are in fight for your life mode .
they lay the two pex down and the dorsal as well in it and then raise them up for the dual .
it is my understanding that ALL catfish do this ,not just one species . from my many different impales , i would say this about that ,brown bullheads seem to hurt the worst , but to be sure a gaftop thru the sneaker into the instep that someone has to "RIP" out is EXACTLLY like the pain when a woman delivers a baby .....er at least I thunk so ....:Rofl

Mr. Google says : That's what I heard back in my younger days, and have had an instance or two to prove it out. I still have all my limbs & digits, so it must have worked. Kinda makes sense when you think about it, seeing as how rough handling of a fish removes that slime, and we've all probably seen the results of that removal of their protective slime coating (from previous handling).

Is catfish slime antibacterial?




Ravi, member of the development team, said slime or mucus of catfish contains active protein compounds in the form of Antimicrobial Peptides (AMPs). These compounds have the potential to be used to heal wounds because it has a strong bactericidal activity to kill pathogenic bacteria.

That's what I heard back in my younger days, and have had an instance or two to prove it out. I still have all my limbs & digits, so it must have worked. Kinda makes sense when you think about it, seeing as how rough handling of a fish removes that slime, and we've all probably seen the results of that removal of their protective slime coating (from previous handling).

Kinda hard place to take a selfie of but here it is on the ugliest leg ever. Absolutely no pain unless wound is pushed. Swelling is the same. Still waiting to hear from Dr. Attachment 470236


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Hope all is good and you heal quickly!

Ouch!! Those cats sure can be dangerous. My dad once had a fin go through the palm of his hand and come out the topside between those little bones. Said other than passing kidney stones the worst pain he ever felt. He was fooling with a catfish on a trotline when it happened. He ran lines and yo yo's for a long time, not commercially. After that incident I don't think he ever fooled with them again. Hope you heal up soon!

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X-ray came back normal. Best case scenario!


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Wonderful news. Now just need to get healed up.

Certainly looks painful

How do you think the fish felt and of course it was here fault! :Rofl

Glad all is well! :cheers2

Rouch Ducky, not good, but good I guess cause ain't nothing bad on the xray. Heal well, heal fast. Gotta wear leather pants from now on. Or at least gators.

Nothing foreign in it is a good thing
That’s a dandy wound , should leave a nice scar ….
Memories ya know