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[Hoggeman]

I just looked on google to see if anyone has been stung by a ray in Corpus.
Could not find a link. Miller used to run the County line BBQ back in the day. He's the only one the I have personally seen his pierced Achilles tenden. To think about it, I accepted another managers word and I have never seen to this day or had anyone I know ever get stung. I would like to find out how many victims we have?
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[hickroots07]

[extreme fisher]

My dad got nailed a number of years back, said it hurt like heck. Went to minor emergency clinic, put some hot water and he said the pain was gone.

[Hoggeman]

I worked at the County line in San Antonio. His brother Skeeter, I would see more. I used to visit friends at the line in Corpus that used to work in SA. I would see him then.
Great guy
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[Hoggeman]

Sorry to hear about your Dad.
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[Tyler]

I got a glancing blow slice like a fingernail slice. Burned like hell.
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[surfdragon]

Back in the day when i was a life guard on the beach,I treated some people who got stung by sting rays in the surf .We had some bags that you would crush and it would get hot and tell them to apply for the pain and go get checked at the ER for any of the stinger that was left behind.
Which is the the cause of infection.Speed up some 20 yrs later ,Fishing Surfcats tournament on the first day i steped in the first gut and was walking out to cast a bait and steped in a hole and guess what was lying in there, Next thing i feel is like if some one stuck a wire in my ankle .
Theres no mistaken,Iknew exactly what hit me i did the motion like i was going to throw my four odd and custom pole away from the pain i felt but some how i held on to it. Like i said it was the first day soaked in some hot water the hottest i could stand and it sure did work for the pain but as soon as i would take it out the pain would come back.Took some pain killers and put some neosporin and drank some beers and the next day i woke up with no pain.Went back to fishing which is a no no with an open wound and make a long story short ended up at the Er with fever and my ankle infected ,Got treated and was out of work for a week i couldn't stand on my foot from the infection. If you ever get stung put some heat on it for the pain and get it checked out , you never know these days with vibro going around.I know of two other close frinds that got hit and all three of us have scars from the hit.One week after i get well
i head on over to pins again and get my four odd baited up and take my first steps in the murky surf and guess what i see sticking out on the first sand bar, A WICKED looking tail of a huge sting ray whipping from side to side in the air.Took some steps back and rerouted myself a couple of yards away from that situation. Thats my experience with my friend the sting ray.
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[shorty]

2 times,got the scare's.once in ankle,once between toe's,both not paying attention,once in the Oso,once at the Spill Way.

[cckayaker]

Was hit a few years back in Achilles tendon also, was shuffling on a sand bar in the surf and stepped back where i had just shuffled to turn around and a ray was following me looking for i was shuffling up. Felt like a crab pinch at first then right side when numb from shoulder to toes. Heat is the only thing that stops the pain ( hot water, hot wet towels from the microwave, etc)

[Brine]

i was hit in the bay and my wife got hit in the surf.

[john's addicted]

Twice in 3 year stretch, both on Mustang Island stepping off a sandbar. I first described the pain like this: Imagine clamping an old rusty shop vice on to your left foot, then tighten it until you start crying, then attach the vice to a chain attached to a truck trying to pull it off... My other description is: Imagine someone stabbed the top of your foot with a blunt icepick. Then they put all their weight on it and move it aroung in circles with the sharp end at one spot.
I won't give up my quest for a 30 inch surf trout, so I imagine I'll put myself in harm's way again next spring...
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[HRod2222]

I got hit at PINS near the 52mm. It was painful and bloody, Doc took x-rays and put me on antibiotics.
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[Coach]

So, who went to using Ray guards after that?

Anyone have the Ray gards or reef boots and still get hit?
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[Bighead]

I got a glancing blow a few years ago in the surf...no barb stuck in me, but I'll give you the run down of what transpired.

The water was murky, and I got hit above the back of my heel...felt like a crab might have pinched me...had a small cut, and it bled like crazy, would not stop...and it burned. Not too bad, but noticeable.

About 5 minutes into it, I felt a pain running up my leg into my crotch. The best way I can describe it was the muscles in my leg, particularly the groin muscle, felt as if they were being wrung out like you'd wring out a wet towel, and then I felt like I'd been kicked in the cajones a few times.

We left the beach, and it hurt like hell...the pain in my nuts was amazing, as was this 'twisting' feeling in my left leg.

I got to the emergency room as I had no idea what had happened...I never saw it...thought something was REALLY wrong.

They stuck my foot into a bucket of scalding hot soapy water, and the relief from the pain was almost immediate, but in the reverse order that it happened.

They x-rayed my foot to make sure there were no parts of the barb in there, and then gave me some high doses of anti-biotics to fight possible infection.

Over the next THREE MONTHS, the wound went from a small cut, to a small blister, to a medium blister, to a LARGE blister that simply would not heel...over time, that all went away.

Some may think I went overboard in getting this looked at, but I only have one kidney, and these sort of things could lead to my death, so I took it and do take it very seriously.

I am very cautious when I wade out to cast in the surf...and well, since then my days of going out to the 3rd bar to put a bait out are over...if I can't reach it, I don't fish it.

Bighead
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[huntnetime]

Got hit las summer in calf deep water at the north sticks south of Bob Hall pier...waded in barefoot saw about a plate sized ray scurrying off and blew it off. Went in anyway. Standing still my feet had sunk into the sand a little bit just above the ankle. Felt something tickling the outside of my left calf just above the ankle. Went to pull my feet up out of the sand, took a quick step back and thought my heel had been hit by a bolt of lightning. You'ver never seen anyone run across the water back to the sand so quickly. When I got to the sand, blood started pouring out of a 1/2" puncture on the back of my heel. Remembered the warm water trick and the warmest water I had close was the sea water. So, I stood in it for a few minutes until I could not stand it anymore and drove myself to the ER at Bay Area. They put my foot in the hottest water I could stand with some antiseptic in the water for a couple of hours. Took an x-ray to make sure nothing was left in the wound. They told me it hit my heel bone and needed to watch out for infection. The few minutes they took my foot out of that scalding hot water to take the x-rays was agony. The skin around the wound peeled for a couple of weeks and sloughed off, but no lasting damage. I was lucky. Some guy came in with a lure stuck in his eyes and a kid had been badly bitten by a shark that night and came into the Bay Area ER. The sea was angry with fishermen that night.