Weaver fish

[g.ordon]

Just wondered if anyone on here has been stuck by a weaver fish and how they got on after their encounter with it. I was fishing Amble pier once and when going to grab a small fish my instinct suddenly kicked in and I tried to avoid grabbing the fish, it just grazed the palm of my hand and didn't draw any blood but within seconds there was a 1" dia. white circle where it touched but that was it.

[tonynufc]

ive never been hit by one but ive seen a few near misses, its amazing how many people dont know about them. i was down whitby in the summer and i got a weever on a spinner and a lad watched me then asked why i used my pliers to unhook it, i told him about the spines and he was shocked. a while later he came back and thanked me as he'd caught one and said if i hadn't told him about them he would have just grabbed it

[tonybax]

i got stung in lanzarote a few years back and the weaver was a monster well over a pound.
within 2 minutes my hand was swolen twice the size but after getting an injection, couple hours later i was ok. some people have bad reactions to them and end up hospitalised.

[mickbrennan]

never hooked one meself but i know a few lads who been stung it supposed to be verry painfull

[g.ordon]

Just after getting hit by mine I was sweating like Pavarotti in a disco. From what your saying if it had penetrated the skin it would have been sesh over and off to Wansbeck Hospital!

[InCodweTrust]

weavers

Many years ago whilst night fishing, with my father, for flatties on the east pier at Scarboro. My father swung his gear in with a small silver fish on the bottom hook. In the poor light of our tilley lamp, pre headlamps !, he thought it was a little billet, and grabbed it ! It was a 'Weaver', and he got all the 'Dorsal Spines' stuck into ball of his thumb, and he was a builder with hands like rhino skin. Within 20 mins. his hand was twice the size, and he was in serious pain. Luckily my older brother had just passed his car test, and drove him to the hostpital, where they treated him, and said that they treated dozens of people every year for this, because the cunning little buggers bury themselves into the sand, with just the 'Dorsal Fin' stuck up, in the south bay where all the tourists paddle.
We had never seen one before, and said why weren't people warned, but they been told they couldn't in case it scared the tourists away ?????
Took two days before my fathers hand started to go down, and I know it hurt him, as he wasn't one for showing pain, but he did that time !
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[smoothound]

a stood on one at cambois beach when a was 15,second worst pain i've ever felt.never walk on the beach without shoes on now.

[codonly]

they are very dangerous especially to the elder folk with heart problems with the venom they inject
this is why i will instantly kill it every time i hook one,
hope this dosent offend people

[northeast1]

I have caught over 20 of them this year on lures and spinner sbut never been stung by them

[tubbie2shoes]

never caught one before, but have come across them whilst digging.....so be careful when digging in sand.......

Out of shear curiosity smoothhound if a weaver is the secondmost painful thing....what was the most painful....

[g.ordon]

i got stung in lanzarote a few years back and the weaver was a monster well over a pound.
within 2 minutes my hand was swolen twice the size but after getting an injection, couple hours later i was ok. some people have bad reactions to them and end up hospitalised.

Glad you recovered and that it didn't spoil your holiday. That's a canny size weaver and could be a keeper. Has anyone ever tasted one?

[smoothound]

dislocating me knee.was pure agony

[codcatcher3000]

never had it on line but came close once when snatching for sand eels ...was inches close...now i use gloves when snatching .....not that i ever have time to do sandeel snatching in the sand anymore....

[shaun]

this is why i will instantly kill it every time i hook one,
hope this dosent offend people

but killing the ones you catch isnt going to make much change in the population, theres still going to be plenty in the sea so no real reason to kill them, well thats how i see it anyway.

[g.ordon]

but killing the ones you catch isnt going to make much change in the population, theres still going to be plenty in the sea so no real reason to kill them, well thats how i see it anyway.

I get your point Shaun but I think it's a natural human reaction.