Coastal Fishing

[FlourBluffHorn]

Don't come down to CC to fish or whatever, we got the flesh eating disease down here, guy went fishing and had a cut on his foot and he died 28 hrs later even after they amputated his leg, big price to pay for a fish..

http://www.kristv.com/story/38710816/nueces-county-officials-confirm-vibrio-death


Hook'em

 

[DHHorn]

If you wash your hands and take a shower after you get done your chances are greatly reduced from forming an infection. If you have open cuts pour some alcohol or hydrogen peroxide on the areas when you get out of the water. It's scary stuff.

 

[Belldozer1]

I know you'll all be disappointed but I was down there this last weekend fishing in Rockport and made it out alive. I got a small cut on my index finger while fishing but it was nothing a little bleach couldn't take care of.

 

[Longyac]

Vibrio has been around a while. I havent fished while having any cuts for close to a decade and keep peroxide on hand for any cuts that occur when fishing.

 

[clob94]

Vibrio has been around a while. I havent fished while having any cuts for close to a decade and keep peroxide on hand for any cuts that occur when fishing.

When I was in junior high, a classmate of mine was out on the beach with his family that had traveled into town. Aunts, uncles, cousin etc. His older cousin (female) was out body surfing (I don't know how far out) when she was attacked by what they estimate was a 5 to 6 foot black tip shark. It grabbed her just below the elbow and she lost her arm.

When school started back up and I talked to my friend, he was told (at the hospital by family) that the doctors thought the reason the shark attacked her was because she was on her period. From that moment on, I wouldn't set foot in the water if I had any nicks or scrapes.