On Fri, 21 Mar 2008 00:47:07 +0000, Short Wave Sportfishing wrote:


There's a guy here in Woodstock who does a lot of salt water fly
fishing. Latched into a blue fish out by Fisher's Island and the thing
bit him.

It doesn't only have to be sal****er. I've had a few pickerel scrapes,
not really bites, and everyone got infected, not swollen arm infected,
but I was surprised by the speed and the severity of the infection.

I've always been very careful with bluefish. I not near as worried about
infection, as loss of body parts. Those suckers are down right nasty.


I don't know if you remember, but a couple of years ago, a guy in RI was
bitten by a blue fish and had a case of necrotizing fasciitis - it was
in the news.

Yuck!