I remembered just after I logged off.
The fish whose name I couldn't think of was the Fortescue (sorry if the spelling is incorrect).
The fish in the pic is of course a spinefoot, I think there are around four different types.
They all bloody hurt though!!!
Roz
GO THE CRUISER UTES!
....OH WHAT A FEELING!
One more thing, Fortescue generally turned up in the nets when we went prawning. They were always hard to see at night, and there were quite a few of the little buggas.
Roz
GO THE CRUISER UTES!
....OH WHAT A FEELING!
fortesques are cute little buggers, theyre very closely related to rock cods (poor mans lobster) and i have one swimming around in my fish tank.
I have an idea for hot water.
It involves a good meal and plenty of drink, then, you proceed to piss all over your sting. Or even better, get all your mates to piss on your sting too! [smiley=jester.gif]
great i dea panda. with catties, rub their belly on the wounded area - works ok. could be psychosomatic, or the belly may actually have neutralising properties. who knows. ive also been stung by happy moments, eel-tailed catties and a ray barb. all with no hot within cooey, so had to put up with it. if only i had panda there and his resourceful advice!!! ray barbs cause a lotta blood, the others dont seem to though.
cuzza
Hi Mr Mullet,
I suppose Fortesque (assume you can spell it better than me) would look OK in the fish tank. I have heard that their sting is up there with the stone fish's (can put a person in hospital).
Never want to find out though!!!
Cheers Roz
GO THE CRUISER UTES!
....OH WHAT A FEELING!
Here is what the Australian Museum Fish website has to say about the Fortescue. Haven't caught one of these yet but will look out for them.
"The Fortescue has a brown to white body with dark brown to black bars. It has two large spines on either side of the head that can be projected sideways when the fish is disturbed. The first dorsal fin has 16 strong spines that are capable of inflicting a very painful sting.
This species grows to 14cm in length.
It lives in estuaries and bays to a depth of 30m. Divers often see Fortescues, sometimes in large numbers, resting motionless on the bottom.
The Fortescue is endemic to (only known from) Australia. It occurs in temperate marine waters from southern Queensland to eastern Victoria"
Picture of one below
Exactly why do we call them happy moments?Is it that's it's the strange aussie humour coming out.Getting done by one will not give a happy moment.
Funny bone ,have you ever seen anyone having a laugh after hitting funny bone hard?
Red Haired men,always get the name the nickname blue.
I'm sure there's lots more as well that i can't think of right now.
I've also caught a lot of 4tascue (hopeless speller) in nets prawning, but never on a line. the biggest i've seen is about 6cm. hope NEVER to see one 14cm as they pack a punch, like a scorpion cod.
My mates answer to being stung, was to finnish his six pack as fast as he could.. this may also be why he always got stung more than once
Well the kids always call me Basil Fawlty or Victor Meldrew, so I suppose that means that I'm a mild mannered, patient kind of chapOriginally Posted by Bream_Reaper01
kev
Hurt people hurt people. Whole people heal people.
That good old Aussie humour. The story I heard, dunno if it's true, is that some people build up a reaction to them. So that every time you get stung, the pain is worse.
Heard that pro netters used to get stung often and one or two of them built up this reaction so that any spike gave you that "happy moment"
chuck the cast net in the wheely bin.
support your local commercial fisher,its never too late!!
Years ago an old fisherman told me to dig out the eye and rub it on the sting site. It worked for me, took the pain away within five minutes. Small ones are bloody good live bait for Yellowtail Kingfish too. Ross.
Works with flathead too.
Hey All,
First post here only found out about this site a few days ago...
Sure fire remendy for all the nasty ocean stinging fish.... there liver...
Gut.. take out liver and rub into wound and the pain will ease... something about the liver breaks down the venom...
Anyways still best to handle with care...
catchyas
I once caught a 30cm Happy Moment on a worm in the Noosa River. He sure did fight a little, caught my by supprise - I thought I was onto a good size bream
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