A few hours out yesterday.....

[Martin56]

It was a tooth that went in half an inch from my finger tip on the underside that's the worst....me finger tip has gone black now and is totally knumb!!

I'm positive they have anti coagulant in or out of their teeth as whenever i've been nicked with a pike i've kept bleeding for ages, whereas other more serious cuts caused by tools etc stop bleeding pretty quick.

I'd get that looked at Tigger, might be nothing but may just need a nick through the skin to relieve the pressure (like when you push a hot paper clip in a trapped finger nail) That'll be why it's numb/painful. If you have a clean razor blade - I'd do it now, you'll sleep better.

 

A Tigger Nailed by a Croc'!!!

Edited August 8, 2019 by Martin56

[Tigger]

I get what your saying Martin, but there's already a cut in it as an escape route for blood....it bled like there's no tomorrow n'all

 

Edited August 8, 2019 by Tigger

[chesters1]

Unusual its black ,is weils terminal?

[Martin56]

Unusual its black ,is weils terminal?

Take no notice of chesters mate, it's just chesters being chesters.

 

Weill's is caused by rat pee.

 

I have it from a cardiac specialist that Weill's is most often contracted by railway maintenance workers from the wooden sleepers etc where rats like to hang out. (when there's no trains coming)

Edited August 8, 2019 by Martin56

[Tigger]

Take no notice of chesters mate, it's just chesters being chesters.

 

Weill's is caused by rat pee.

 

I have it from a cardiac specialist that Weill's is most often contracted by railway maintenance workers from the wooden sleepers etc where rats like to hang out. (when there's no trains coming)

 

Lol, I know what wiels is, and I know what chesters is like !

[Martin56]

Lol, I know what wiels is, and I know what chesters is like !

Yep' he's a wag isn't he!!

Edited August 8, 2019 by Martin56

[chesters1]

Its prevelent in canals and rivers anywhere where rats go ,people also seem ignorent of lyme aswell but its common compared to even 20 years ago perhaps the pike just finished eating a tick covered deer rat with prostrate trouble ,mark my words you will be dead within 100 years!

Seems strange its black clobbering it with a hammer would bruise it but it was just a nick from a pike ,did it work out ?

Edited August 8, 2019 by chesters1

[Tigger]

 

If you can imagine, I picked the pike up with one hand, same as I always do with my fingers through it's gill rakers. Somehow my finger had got to be in the wrong spot when the fish wriggled and my fingers were right at the back of it's mouth where all the most pressure is exhurted. The pikes mouth was sort of like a carnivorous plant, it clamped shut when it felt my finger trying to get another spot... I mean it really clamped down seriously hard,! I have never known a fish to be able to exhurt so much pressure. It was like having a pair of pliers with a large rose spike built into the pliers and then squeezing them onto your finger.

[BoldBear]

Ouch! I feel for you Tigger

Ive had a few cuts and abrasions from Pike over the years but the one that you had with its teeth bearing down tight sounds painful.

 

Keith

Edited August 9, 2019 by BoldBear

[Ken L]

Been sliced and diced plenty of time by pike and they always bleed profusely.
No great sakes unless a piece of tooth has broken off in the wound - which is no fun at all.

 

Perhaps the most memorable one was when I was just a nipper and half frozen in the middle of winter (Actually it was one of the two times I've ended up with hypothermia whilst fishing) and a little jack did the bite down trick leaving a perfect puncture into my finger from which blood actually sprayed about 10cm for a few seconds.

I was sufficiently weirded out that my brother and I immediately packed up and went home - which is just as well, given that we were both feeling very strange by the time we were done.