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Skipjack Joe
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Yeah, stepping on a stingray is not soon forgotten. Here's my writeup on how it felt.
http://forums.bajanomad.com/viewthread.php?tid=27925#pid273569
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ILikeMex
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Don't urinate on sting ray wound - that is for sea urchins and jelly fish (or ammonia to neutralize the venoms)
On the pacific side, you also have to be careful about getting hit by them while they are swimming in the surf zone. As mentioned, usually people get
hit on teh ankle, they are not stepping directly on the barb, but when you step on the fish, it snaps its tail up and implants the barb into the side
of your ankle.
Sometime, if particularly nasty, it will embed the barbs sheath into your skin. (ie) You get striked by the barb and as the tail snaps back down and
pulls the barb out the sheath remains embedded in your skin.
These ones you will need more than just hot water and pain med - you have to get that sheath out.
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Woooosh
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Stepped on one a kid and will never forget it. I now do the stingy-ray shuffle too. If stung- apply heat not ice- the pain is caused by a venom that
is heat sensitive. you need to get some shots if you haven't had a booster recenlty too.
BTW- It's also time for the Grunion Run. No wonder the dolphins and pelicans are happy. Does anyone fry and eat these like smelt?
\"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing\"
1961- JFK to Canadian parliament (Edmund Burke)
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Pompano
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Russ
Sorry for any confusion on Shell Beach but since Punta Chivato is now a fenced in private community Many of us on this Shell Beach feel segregated.
Rattlers.... My friend here sent me a pic one his co-worker sent of a 7' rattler they got last week in Ventura area.
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Rattlers. Thank God I have only had to kill 2 of these snakes in all the years spent here in Baja. One crawled in the house through an open patio
slider and the twin Siamese cats cornered it in the pantry. Killed that one with a mop handle. The next one was an accident. Unfortunately I ran
over it with my Jeep one day out in the desert. Left front tire. The snake bit at the tire as I rolled over it and sunk it's fangs into the
sidewall. I had visions that it would be just like one of those plastic tabs we used as kids on our bike wheel spokes to make the clicking
noise...the snake going round and round, whacking against the fender. Well...you had to be there.  
Another time we ate one that kept coming back into our fishing camp on Lake Sakakawea in the Badlands of ND. It wanted to come for dinner I guess, so
we accommodated.
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Egad, Russ...that's a big rattler. With a good food supply, they get HUGE for sure. Here's another big boy captured recently on the King Ranch.
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I do what the voices in my tackle box tell me.
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ELINVESTIG8R
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There is one the size of that monster there at the entrance gate to El Metate. I at first thought it was a motorcycle tire it was so big. I did not
get a photo of it as I think it hypnotized me. When I regained my senses and thought about taking a picture it was gone. So be careful when opening
the gate at El Metate if you should find it closed.
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Pacifico
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| Quote: | Originally posted by Ken Bondy
I get on these rolls..... My daughter Coleen with a Southern Sting Ray:
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Is that at Grand Cayman?
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