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.
Weaver fish
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tonynufc
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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 
mickbrennan
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never hooked one meself but i know a few lads who been stung it supposed to be verry painfull
InCodweTrust
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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 !
mel...
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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 !
mel...
smoothound
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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.
northeast1
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I have caught over 20 of them this year on lures and spinner sbut never been stung by them
tubbie2shoes
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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....
Out of shear curiosity smoothhound if a weaver is the secondmost painful thing....what was the most painful....
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
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dislocating me knee.was pure agony
codcatcher3000
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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....
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.
Hartlepool codder
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ive seen 2 lads get stung by weavers but i myself havent thank god, any way the first case was on steetly makereling about 8 year ago 1 of the lads, chunk swung his feathers in with 3 small fish on , a whitey a little billet and a weaver on the bottom hook, has there was quite a few small whiting about that day, he just grabbed it thinking it was a whitey and i heard IIYA YOU BA*TARD, and he dropped it , i laffed my cap off lol any way his hand didnt swell or anything ? i can only come to the conclusion that cos hes such a big lad (about28stone) that the poisen didnt affect him ...... now this one yav got to laff at ....
i was about 15 and me cuisin was working on the trawlers he was about 18 so on the summer holidays i went away with them trawling one night for soles, we hauled up n the skipper headed for home n me n me cuisin were sorting the catch there was plenty of weavers amongst it and i was taking care with them lol , any way we get to the bottom of the catch and thers 2 weavers laid there on top of the last few plaice so i went to grab 1 of them by its tail and it slipped out me hand .. me cuisin thought he was the top trawlerman and said ' OUR GET OUT THE WAY IIL GET IT' so he grabs it by the tail and went to through it over the rail , has he done this it spun round and stuck straight in his finger hahaha i couldnt stop laffing has he shouted 'ahhhh the little c**t got me !!! anyway he takes his glove off and within 5 mins his finger is like a good pork sausage , now ive always heard ya meant to put heat near the wound to draw the poisen out ( ie a lighter close to the wound or the end of a tab) and hold it there for aslong as u can. he thought better of this and proceeded to suck the poisen out of his finger lmao, i thought no more of it then the next day his finger was cushty, the only problem he couldnt talk properly ... yeah you guessed it the poisen had got into his tounge and it was swellled right up and yellowish in colour.... hahaha i laffed my head off and said thats what you get for pushing me out the way and saying you would do it!! if i remember rightly im sure he ended up on antibiotics then it cleared up .
i was about 15 and me cuisin was working on the trawlers he was about 18 so on the summer holidays i went away with them trawling one night for soles, we hauled up n the skipper headed for home n me n me cuisin were sorting the catch there was plenty of weavers amongst it and i was taking care with them lol , any way we get to the bottom of the catch and thers 2 weavers laid there on top of the last few plaice so i went to grab 1 of them by its tail and it slipped out me hand .. me cuisin thought he was the top trawlerman and said ' OUR GET OUT THE WAY IIL GET IT' so he grabs it by the tail and went to through it over the rail , has he done this it spun round and stuck straight in his finger hahaha i couldnt stop laffing has he shouted 'ahhhh the little c**t got me !!! anyway he takes his glove off and within 5 mins his finger is like a good pork sausage , now ive always heard ya meant to put heat near the wound to draw the poisen out ( ie a lighter close to the wound or the end of a tab) and hold it there for aslong as u can. he thought better of this and proceeded to suck the poisen out of his finger lmao, i thought no more of it then the next day his finger was cushty, the only problem he couldnt talk properly ... yeah you guessed it the poisen had got into his tounge and it was swellled right up and yellowish in colour.... hahaha i laffed my head off and said thats what you get for pushing me out the way and saying you would do it!! if i remember rightly im sure he ended up on antibiotics then it cleared up .
BAZACODBASHA
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Had a good laugh at that one...............brilliant !
Ive never caught 1 myself but a good while back was fishing north shields ice factory and a bloke a bit up from me got 1. He didn't know what it was and just grabbed hold of it.i've never heard a scream like it from a bloke.Within 5 minutes he was rolling round the floor in agony.His mate foned his wife and took him to hospital.His hand and arm was so swollen it was the size of my leg and im not a skinny bloke if you know what i mean. Anglers beware.
