kissing a catfish almost deadly

Aquaholic38 · 1 kissing a catfish almost deadly Thu Jun 20, 2013 2:59 am

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I saw this yahoo news,

Harmless fun with a catfish nearly turns deadly
A 13-year-old boy was impaled in neck by sharp spine when fish wiggled in mother’s hand as she joked about fish giving son a kiss

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careful with your fish brothas! black eye

mightyminnow25 · 2 Re: kissing a catfish almost deadly Thu Jun 20, 2013 5:34 am

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crazy! Glad it wasn't so serious

lovetofish · 3 Re: kissing a catfish almost deadly Thu Jun 20, 2013 8:35 am

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Wow...i'm not a fan of catfishing. The same could happen to the airbladder of a floattube with those spines being as sharp and as long as they are.

fatboy531 · 4 Re: kissing a catfish almost deadly Thu Jun 20, 2013 9:04 am

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lovetofish wrote:Wow...i'm not a fan of catfishing. The same could happen to the airbladder of a floattube with those spines being as sharp and as long as they are.

YUPP!!! Scary stuff. I had an incident with a spottie. Sucker did not want to be pulled out of water and began to thrash. It slipped out my grasp and fell on my right side tube bladder and caused a puncture. As it was falling I also reached out to grab it again and got stuck with the upper spine. Hurt like crazy. Be very careful.