Top 5 Dangerous Fish to Unhook

[@aus5405]

You already know if a snapper bit me it would instantly become tonight’s dinner

[@Code3GamingOfficial]

Tbh i wouldnt care the least bit if it bites down on me bc my hands are kinda... hardy??? Ive had hooks and knifes in my hands b4 and fish with teeth such as Drum, Snook, Snapper, Trout, ect ill just stick my fingers in their mouth and hold it like a Bass and it doesnt hurt as much when they squirm. But Sheepshead ill stay out of there mouths.

[@aus5405]

Code 3 Gaming ah yes gotta watch out for those nasty Snook and Drum teeth

[@peep1234]

Same

[@Code3GamingOfficial]

I try my best to Eliminate the Invasive Species Category. Id Catch Atleast 40 Saltwater Catfish When I Go Fishing And The Biggest Ive Caught Was 24 ¾" Weighing Up To 16Lbs. And Use the little Ones As Bait To Catch More As The Bigger Ones Are Basically Cannibals And Will Eat Anything.

[@Code3GamingOfficial]

Other fish i wont stick my fingers in their mouth is Quite obvious is the Wahoo And The Great Barracuda

[@lukeb4775]

The worst pain I have ever had was from a saltwater catfish!! The fin went under my thumb nail all the way to my knuckle. It swelled up my forearm like Popie after eating spinach

[@lukeb4775]

@Milan Adriaansen I don't know. I do know that they are a fish to be extra careful with though. I wish you the best of luck fishing.

[@ryanlewis7633]

Same I am from Michigan, so I had no idea how bad their sting was. I caught one on a kayak on a vacation in Florida. Paddling back to the dock was hell lol

[@elyaaltman1275]

I had the fin go into the muscle between my thumb and first finger when I was 13 my family thought I was over reacting when I was crying 2 yrs later I still have a scar and won't touch any catfish

[@Okj17]

Dawg I couldn’t even imagine I got dried pasta under my thumb nail and I was about to cut it off!

[@DoctorSess]

Hardhead? I’ve been stuck by gafftop before I knew better, just superficial wounds but it still stings pretty good for a while... can’t imagine under the thumb, screw that!

[@bismillahamin6357]

Salt water catfish really make me anxious when handle it.

[@jordanriser558]

I caught one bare handed when I was 8 no rod no reel nothing but my bare hands

[@zyron3193]

Honestly even just freshwater channel cats are demons as well. I've had days of fishing ruined by stupid channel cats poking me in the hand 😒

[@JoseFlores-qi1ej]

Salt water catfish come on I’m 15 I got stung 4 times don’t hurt

[@jacksonfromwisconsin2005]

I get nervous about sunfish lol

[@zyron3193]

@@jacksonfromwisconsin2005 same. It's hard to know what to do with the tiny ones you can't thumb

[@judo-drummerboy-tapout]

I took a friend Muskie fishing for the first time and he was so excited when he hooked the 40-inch fish that he reached down and he lipped it. Yeah we had to go to the emergency room. 20 stitches later he was okay. People I know you're excited when you catch a fish but some of these fish you just can't reach down and grab LOL

[@gultenpan8689]

That is hilarious. It had to have hurt but that’s funny

[@MusMasi]

I remember we where going to a fish trap and one guy got excited because it was full of fish, he immediately jumped in then out screaming with his legs covered in slashes because the trap was full of unicorn fish which have blades on their tails, idiot was lucky there were no sharks or stingrays in the trap, normally those are harmless but if trapped in a confined space and stressed, they will bite or stab you and you cannot blame them anyone would if they were in that situation. If I catch a fish I am not familiar with I am very careful of how a I handle it to unhook it, or get it out of a net. Probably one advantage of spear fishing is you rarely spear the wrong fish by mistake.

[@MusMasi]

@@gultenpan8689 a painful lesson for his friend, hopefully it saved him needless pain in the future.

[@gultenpan8689]

Thomas Neale yeah

[@mayrengonzalez9588]

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[@FastEddy1959]

ANY time I am using a lure with multiple trebles, I will be looking for a way to control it without grabbing it. I saw a guy lip a largemouth (about 2-3 lbs.) who ended up with one treble in his hand and the fish hanging from the other and thrashing. Until then, I did not know a man could make a noise like the one he did!

[@Lep19672]

I once lipped a bass and while i was trying to get the hook out the bass shook its head and the hook stuck me in my thumb. Luckily it wasn't that deep

[@DoctorSess]

Ed Phillips this almost happened to me a couple weeks ago. I got the treble right in the joint of my thumb, not quite to the bone but deep enough. Thank god the fish stayed calm until I could pull the other one out of its mouth at least. Whole time I’m just talking to it like “don’t move buddy don’t you f***in move” lol didn’t hurt pushing it through at all but once I cut the barb and pulled it back out it burned reeeeal good! Never going near anything with trebles again... that’s what the pliers are for!

[@Mavgaming_1]

Had a 0.8 lb bass fall into my kayak after I lipped him and floped. He hooked me with a reble bee in the calve, and it was just past the barb. He wouldn't stop flopping and it was stuck in an awkward position, so it was hard to get out. He finally yanked on it so much it came back out. He was fine and swam off and after a while I was fine too. Now I use fish grippers if trebbel hooks are involved.

[@gultenpan8689]

DoctorSess if you hold them right behind the gills they won’t move. Pro tip

[@DoctorSess]

Gulten Pan yeah true. Also heard throwing a towel over their head helps keep them calm. This happened while I was pulling it in the “boat” which is a kayak. What actually happened is it had both trebles in its lip, one at each corner, so when I saw the hook on the right I figured “left side is clear” and basically put my thumb right next to the other hook... stupid is as stupid does

[@arrestor47]

My only disagreement is I would take speckled trout off and add blue fish. I had a guide in Jacksonville, Fla. get a really nasty deep cut from bluefish teeth.

[@AnglerUpTv]

R B bluefish can def be bad. The only reason I had trout on there is because I’ve had to pull 9 hooks out of peoples had since becoming a guide and 7 of them were from grabbing a trout.

[@franciscorcoran1935]

Try northeast big 10-20 lb. Blues. If they catch your thumb its coming clean off or atleast straight to the bone

[@Gallagherfreak100]

@@AnglerUpTv : My dad was a FANATICAL fisherman, mostly striped bass, but also sea trout, snook, tarpon, bluefish. One and only emergency room visit was from grabbing a trout, with a mirrolure in the trouts' mouth, and his hand slipped and two of the treble hooks impaled into the soft part of his hand between his thumb and index finger. He was a combat wounded veteran from WW2, and I never saw him turn that pale in my entire life. He was on the verge of passing out.

[@davedavis775]

I lived on the Chesapeake in Maryland and yes blues can be very nasty. This guy is pretty much talking about his area. I guess he thinks they are near the only body of water and the earth must be flat.

[@majorsynthqed7374]

Had a friend catch a 17 pound bluefish off Cape May in New Jersey. Damn thing latched onto his hand right below the thumb and ripped it open. Fishing trip over, run to the ER begun. 16 stitches needed to close the wound. Their teeth are like mini finishing nails.

[@extreme_spaghetti_5307]

Me and my bud live inland so he’d never gone snapper fishing before and his immediate reaction was to try to thumb it like a bass and I told him look at those teeth before you do that 😂

[@mikloistheman]

I made a similar mistake. I saw the teeth and grabbed around the bottom and my finger went into the gill plate. Facepalm*

[@outdoors-gs9td]

a flounder is flat, its mouths not! lol they got sharp teeth a bite aggressivly!

[@Gmoneyaiden]

HAHA thats funny

[@gultenpan8689]

I had a 4 pound bass mangle my thumb today. Bass normally have tiny teeth but this one was an exception. The weight made it worse too

[@zyron3193]

Did the same thing with a saugeye. Almost thumbed him, then say his demon teeth

[@raymondwilcox4997]

I grew up on shrimp boats in South Texas. May I offer a suggestion to help relieve the PAIN inflicted by catfish fins? Rub the slime from the belly of a fresh one. Leave it on for a while.Their slime has a natural antidote and it will ease the pain. I prefer the belly's slime, because the other three sides could add insult to injury (if you get finned again).

[@peterwallace9764]

Yeah, I’ve heard of this trick too, here in Oz long time back. I haven’t had to put it to the test yet, thankfully.

[@roycullum2722]

Someone know what works. My dad told me that when I was a little kid. It works.

[@yabba133]

thats an awesome tip

[@Dutch.1722]

I am happily married to a non-redhead. So I just leave red snappers alone.

[@chitocano7824]

You must me a red head?

[@pederolsen3489]

I learned the hard way with the mangrove snaper 😂

[@brandonUwanawich954]

I always deal with mangroves they ain’t hard to unhook

[@roadkillavenger1325]

Had a small hardhead cat start wiggling in my hand one night and each of it's barbs dug into my hand every time it wiggled. I got stuck 4 times in less than a second. Freaking ruined my night.

[@floridaoceancurrents]

Also, watch out for bluefish, my friends. I call them the oceanic piranhas. After catching dozens of them over the years, I got my first bite this past Tues on my left index fingertip. I had beached one then tried to grab his head from the wrong angle. He saw my hand coming and bowed up in a split second, biting my finger tip near my fingernail. It was very painful and bled like the dickens for several minutes. I don't remember ever having bled like that before. I'm very lucky he didn't take my fingertip off and that I didn't need stitches. I've butterflied the deepest cut together, and it looks like it will heal fine. I especially relished eating THAT bluefish of the four I caught.

[@somedude2630]

You damn right Leo!

[@JunkBondTrader]

Relish, on fish? Ew.

[@flannelflax8078]

my list: 1: northern pike 2: blue fish (salt water pike) 3: fresh and saltwater catfish 4: stingrays 5: yellow perch (a fin broke off deep in my hand once when i was 12)

[@philr7201]

Saltwater catfish, especially the "hard head" are way worse than the fresh water cats. I had no fear of grabbing catfish as I used to run trot lines when I was young. I moved to the gulf coast at 19 and the first salt water I dropped a hook into I caught a small hardhead that stuck me good in the web of my hand. It did ruin the entire fishing trip and the next day or two. A decent sized eel can make a respectable bite also. Always get a handfull of sand before grabbing one of those fellows.

[@johns3544]

Acualy all spiny fish bass perch blue gills Crapy so um yaa.

[@Hunglikeagrimsmo]

I knew someone who was killed by a fresh water sheepshead when the spine on one of its fins pierced into his heart

[@ddselvig]

I caught a bunch of saltwater catfish last week. I grabbed them by hand to unhook them, but one of them just brushed one of my fingers with the backside of one of its pectoral fins. It didn't poke me, but some of that venom did irritate my hand to the point where it hurt for a couple hours. It felt like a sting from a freshwater bullhead only ten times worse.

[@whodatwindat]

I think you forgot the stingray they are a nuisance when catching them and a nuisance taking them of the line , stingray definitely should be in the top 3

[@jillclausen5767]

I once had a catfish fall on my foot, and his barb went through my foot.

[@SCP--gh7vg]

Jill Clausen IW

[@SCP--gh7vg]

OW CRAP HOW

[@BingusMcDingus-j9b]

I feel you man same happend when I was gonna fry them

[@fateblix3955]

This happened to me before i learned how to hold them i was trying to get my hook out with pliers above my foot and when it got out it fell onto my foot

[@StanleyOrchard]

Man, over the years i have been sliced, speared, impaled, bitten and nawed on by all of those guys... and not one comes remotely close to the pain of getting speared by a stingray (did a video on the trip!). Those are all very appropriate selections for everyday fishing, but if this is an 'everyday fisherman' video then you should do one on the more dangerous stuff out there... scorpionfish, lionfish, those blue sea urchins, stargazers and electric eels. Those guys will put you on your knees!

[@Hoonmaro]

come fuck with the northern pike lol those bastards inhale the shit out of every lure and their teeth have destroyed the rubber on my jaw openers id be scared to get my finger caught in there I feel like only bone would come out lmao

[@chaoswarriorjorgensen749]

Up here in southern minnisota we have the small sheapheads and the bull heads those spikes hurt

[@punishedwhirligig3353]

How do you hook a urchin?

[@StanleyOrchard]

@@punishedwhirligig3353 very carefully!

[@StanleyOrchard]

@@Hoonmaro yeah, you know what i've heard terrible stories about those guys too.

[@brucemullis479]

Triggerfish will also bite you. Don't lip a King Makerel bass guys.

[@torresfishingFL]

For the bass fisherman out there, dont ever lip a 10 pound bull shark lol. It wont end well

[@RT42069]

Or a bluefish

[@bassmandan9484]

Bruce Mullis You don’t have to tell me twice.

[@xxfitzfitzxx]

Triggerfish also have a fin that sticks up. Its called a "trigger"fish for a reason. Ouch

[@brandondirocco9816]

Yeah. Years of new England striper fishing when I lived in nc none of the bastards said anything about lipping a mack. That was fun for the rest of the day. Btw if you bastards see this I still hope next time you swim in the ocean a make comes and bites you balls

[@rickprice407]

For any catfish, if you get finned by one, immediately rub the slime off the fish's back into the wound. It will bleed like a stuck pig for several minutes and remove a good bit of the poison. A cajun taught me this as a kid since we catfished a lot of the rivers, creeks, irrigation canals and other fresh waters near Houston, and catfish was omnipresent.

[@guero210]

that wont give you infection?

[@kwader_1404]

There's no poison on catfish 😑

[@m4_h1_d12]

@@kwader_1404 don't be ignorant catfish does have poison... and some species can even kill you.

[@TheMachine19]

The trick to grabbing a saltwater hardhead catfish is to wait for the trash fish to stop shaking it's booty. Then, with my right hand I slide my thumb and index finger down the line until I reach the eye of the hook. Pinching the hook eye firmly will stop the catfish from spinning. Then, with my left hand, I grab the hard-headed under the pectoral fins my middle finger and thumb. I simultaneously position my index finger under the dorsal fin. I've unhooked thousands of hardheads this way with very minimal and minor pricks and scrapes. Maybe I've built up an immunity to the poison? Now, those other 4 fish... no hands! Great video!!!

[@isaac_5556]

4:45 I’m not sure about saltwater catfish but blue catfish and channel catfish if you get stung you can rub the area where you got stung with the catfishes belly and it will take the poison out

[@notnottheslam-jamfrancisco9262]

Catfish don’t poison you???

[@isaac_5556]

Slam jamfrancisco they have venom that’s what I meant

[@natemoss7437]

Thank you so much for this information 👍🏾

[@gamingonconsole6558]

4:20 "I will never touch this fish with my bare hands no matter the situation" *proceeds to show clips of him touching the fish with bare hands *

[@Thonny]

I had a snapper latch on to me one time too. Definitely got to use pliers. They got some powerful jaws and you can feel it when they snap

[@ajginfinity]

When I was 12 I got a catfish barb all the way through my middle finger and joint stopped at chick fillet otw to the hospital Mississippi catfish don’t play around

[@puppetshowbio2607]

Why did you stop at chick fil a??? Lol

[@magaboi9096]

Puppet show bio maybe the lords chicken will help. holy chicken will fix anything 😂

[@ajginfinity]

Puppet show bio guess the adrenaline made me hungry.

[@nathanclevland399]

At least you got some Chick-fil-A

[@mykemyers6488]

There's a huge difference between freshwater catfish in salt water catfish mostly being poison...

[@trailtrashoutdoors8173]

New friends here from Trail Trash Outdoors! Learned about the mangrove snapper the hard way yesterday...great video man! Very educational!! Love learning about the world around us and keeping it beautiful!

[@Juandongduck]

I've been finned by them real good a couple times but I had never heard of someone not grabbing them

[@cabana126]

The slime on the body of the hard head catfish is an antibiotic. If you ever get stuck by a hard head rub that slime on the puncture. Pain will go away in seconds.

[@ugot1try]

That's the stupidest thing I've ever heard lok

[@legionact]

@@ugot1try you must not fish baffin bay bro, we fuck with these motha luckers all day and if you gotta go to the hospital for this fucker your a pussy straight up. ain't ever gonna catch no one down here trippin that bad

[@ugot1try]

@@legionact I don't care if you go to the hospital, but rubbing a wound on a fish is stupid as fuck lol

[@jacilyndough6879]

He's not kidding lol

[@cabana126]

@@ugot1try look it up on You Tube bro. I've done it. It works.

[@CanoeHippie]

I've been recreational fishing, and a couple dabblings in commercial fishing, for over 50 years. Brant brings up some excellent points, pun intended, on these five fish. But one additional thing that I went to years ago is using only single hook lures; single hook jigs, spinnerbaits, spoons, etc., etc. Easier to unhook anything, with less risk of injury to me or any fish I may want to release. And if you didn't leave your lip gripper and pliers at home; use them for every fish. Your hands will thank you. And the fish you release will thank you for not removing their protective slime by grabbing them.

[@timothybent7502]

Getting stuck by catfish feels like your hand is all numb and and blows up like a balloon

[@delmonicofarquhar9893]

I agree with the snapper being on this list. I've caught many during my time in the Bahamas and I've had many a wound from the gills and mouth of snappers. I've also learned to be very careful around any kind of catfish.

[@roam2485]

Bro the catfish is the worst pain of your life I had a full head stuck in my foot and couldn't get it out it was really stuck in there and the more you pull the worst it gets the fin hook has like reverse tiny hooks on the end so the more you pull the more it grabs under the skin

[@ななみちあき-z9f]

How did you get it out

[@mathewrupp8568]

When I was a kid I saw a guy shore fishing catch a huge catfish. When he went grab the fish it flopped and drove a spine through his hand. A ranger had to cut the spike off next to the fish's skin so the guy go to ER. The spike was about three inches long.

[@poirrier3321]

Never been finned by a living sheep’s head, they always get me somehow when I’m cleaning them 😂

[@mr.mention5308]

I've just watched 3 of your videos back to back and I have learned soooo much man. Thank you

[@JTCT371]

You have to be very careful taking a hook out of a bluefish.....they'll take a fingertip off

[@sleepyguy144]

If you are going to keep it just take steel leader off the line then take hook out when cleaning it.

[@realrelaxation7153]

I live in Ireland in a place where pike get very big and very aggressive. Im talking 15lb monsters. I always get so anxious when im taking out the hook because their teeth are literally like needles and they could just snap at any moment. My uncle actually had to get his little finger amputated because a pike absolutely decimated it. So I prefer to use really long forceps to de hook them.

[@gthomas1421]

Congrats on 2000 trips!

[@AndrewFishman]

Nice vid. Catfish are nasty. Here in Aus, if you get stuck by many of our fish, you have to worry about whether you are going to survive to the ER or not. Never get stuck by a stone fish, rock cod, scorpion fish, lion fish. And watch the teeth on just about everything.

[@johnwildes8048]

Those darn saltwater catfish, I went to Florida for the first time in awhile and those were the only fish that were biting and I caught about 15 of them. Also I didn’t realize I got stung by most of them until my hands were bleeding but since I never fish saltwater I thought they were just like freshwater catfish, which I also never catch. But then later that night I could not stop getting sick and I soon realized it was from the catfish. My family didn’t believe it was from the catfish but now I definitely know it was. Btw that was the second day of the trip and I was sick the rest of the time. 🤮

[@peterwallace9764]

I know Saltwater catfish is painful when you get jabbed & I naturally assumed the freshwater catfish was just as bad with jabs from them. A long,longtime ago I was told removing the eye 👁 & rubbing that on the sting also helps.

[@RBarn2000]

I didn't know this stuff, thank you. seriously, thank you. should be a required video for getting a license

[@ballyhoo321]

Handling a cast net full of leatherjackets ruined my day once, my hands were on fire for hours

[@bradfordlulz5122]

Silly what did you think they where greenbacks or pilchards?

[@pedrowhack-a-mole6786]

Gafftopsail catfish are the ones I'm most familiar with, fishing inshore on the gulf coast of Florida. I catch more of these than almost everything else combined. I always carry an old towel when I go fishing just for these guys' poisonous spines. The spines have barbs that make it harder to extract if you do get spiked. The gill plates are also extremely sharp and will lay your hand open if you're not careful. Most people considered them nuisance fish because they will hit almost any bait you're using, but they do fight good and are tasty.

[@sublim3princ371]

Nobody: Brant: "I've done over 2000 charters." Hahaha Drinking game. Take a shot every time he says hes done over 2000 charters.

[@bradfordlulz5122]

100 trips or so a year for 25 years, its possible I guess. He would be the most active guide in Pensacola but usually these guys book 60 days on snapper Charter weather permits and if he has a offshore boat and inshore it is possible

[@jackretcher2129]

2000 charters in 9yrs lol

[@jakekelly1365]

After watching this video I’ve realized how many times I’ve just carelessly grabbed saltwater catfish like I don’t know if my luck is good or something but I’ve never got stuck

[@jamesfudge5962]

Well f me and my dad aren’t pros so when we go saltwater cat fishing the don’t use pliers we use our hands and that ain’t fun now I feel like I’m the only one

[@kodywilliamson473]

I mean I'm from inland, went to Florida caught a few salt cats held them just like freshwater cats.... no problems

[@ericpharissjr.6840]

No I've done that before because we usually take off fresh water cats with our hands but then I got stuck by him and I use gloves and pliers now

[@Hezakiah4]

Was fishing the Newport Pier in Miami back around 1970 and stepped back right onto a hardhead cat. Back spike went right through my work boot into my foot. Was like pulling a nail out of a 2x4.

[@stephenschwake524]

Pinfish get me every time.

[@seang9450]

Skipjack! I learned a valuable and painful lesson. Hand was swollen for 2 days and hurt for a week.

[@emmanueljohnson5934]

7:03 Nobody? Did the fish just move?

[@fishmanmike4921]

Emmanuel Johnson It’s muscle reflexes, it happens a lot while filleting even hours after they died.

[@fishmanmike4921]

Trevor charger not really, it’s not like a sudden flinch like enough to scare you but it’s just like fin movements and such.

[@jeremyhigdon3402]

Use the ikejime method and this will not happen.

[@turtles7750]

@@jeremyhigdon3402 vox taught you that didnt it

[@jacobstarr9010]

That's happened to me alot. Fish move alot after they're dead. I believe what's happening here is the fish is dead, but its nervous system is still alive and is freaking out, as its body is slowly shutting down.

[@thresher4]

Over here in Calif. it's small scorpion fish aka. sculpin. Even if you use pliers, you have to stabilize the fish from turning on the line. You grab lower mandible. If they are able to flinch and you loose grip or try to grip they move so fast they will jab you several times. When your stung in figer tips that really hurts.

[@tamarastacey9399]

I was expecting one of them to be a lionfish

[@overbanked]

It's non-venomous fish like what's listed where people have a false sense of safety; versus a lionfish that will have any fisherman on high alert. Most people wouldn't even bother with fooling around with those (either cut the line, or kill it since it's an evasive species). Likely only the ones that know how to prepare it for consumption would even bother with it.

[@overbanked]

@J G Yes, thanks for the correction

[@FastEddy1959]

overbanked - The “hardheaded” (aka “gafftopsail”) catfish qualifies as venomous, for its spines. Maybe he omits the Lionfish because it is so rarely caught on hook & line in his area? (PS: I recently ran into a scuba diver who loves spear-fishing Lionfish for their food value. She said they are easy to cook & absolutely delicious!)

[@wrzl1675]

My favorite fish to eat is that Red Snapper and yes those things love to inflict pain lol. The Catfish I do bare hand but not until an old timer taught me the technique that never fails. Sharks I do the same as you do right behind the head then immediately flip it upside down which puts in a catatonic state lights out Lucy

[@durrmoment291]

Over 2000 charters? I know you have stingrays like the guy below mentions, but I don't know if you have Moray Eels around Pensacola. If you do, BOTH deserve to be at the TOP of the list . I don't know how many people a year have to get airlifted off a boat for tangling with a Moray, their teeth face inward towards their throat so once they bite they can't let go. And these teeth are razor sharp so they just keep cutting deeper and deeper and soon the bleeding is arterial.. thus the airlift. IF you catch one, cut the line long before you bring it in the boat. I have seen them climb up the line and up the pole into the boat, so be quick about it. ALWAYS have a knife in a well known easy access place.

[@FlakesandFlour]

I had a big male Moray eel bite down on my hand one day and i didn't think he would ever let go it bit through my fillet glove like it was made of butter. Those things are built in the mouth like the creatures in the alien movie and they are poison to boot.

[@w.patpeters4643]

@@FlakesandFlour I heard they had a brain in their tail end. Is that true? We caught 5 footers in Hawaii. Lots of em. Used to pound the tail section with a rock. {Hawaiian hammer}

[@pchalrton]

Saltwater catfish was one of the first things I ever caught when I was like 11 and I was told about their danger and the guy with me just cut the line. 12 years later I caught a saltwater catfish and told my friend I was going to cut the line and he said "no, just stick your left thumb in his mouth" "are you joking" "no, do it" "ok" the saltwater catfish bit down on my thumb and they have very small teeth so they did not break the skin "now your right hand is free to take out the hook"

[@RworldKM]

This is why I always carry a lip grabber with me. I don't care how many people have manhandled a fish with their bare hands, I'm never sticking my fingers in a live fish's mouth.

[@danaingersoll13]

I’ve been stuck by a channel cat once while unhooking it. It was a tiny one too so they are even painful to be stuck by. It got me right on my thumb and I swear it felt like a burning knife just stabbing you. The pain was so bad that I littersly passed out and was out for 5 minutes. I went to the hospital and got the barb token out and I was fine after that. Now I know to be more careful when handling those fish. I was 12 at the time:

[@LUCSchnl]

My mom caught a stone fish once and we even took a picture, we didn't even know what it was at the time but it's actually the most poisonous fish in the world!😱 Luckily some guys on the peir knew what it was and told us not to touch it, but the crazy thing is, it was on Daytona beach Florida and they are supposed to be native to Australia. Someone must have released it there.

[@febreeze4677]

r/thathappened

[@LUCSchnl]

@@febreeze4677 what do you mean?

[@febreeze4677]

the person like it probably didn’t happen

[@LUCSchnl]

@@febreeze4677 it did, if you want I can post it on my Instagram, and then I can tell you what my Instagram account is so you can find it

[@danielguerrero4336]

Hard head catfish is the scourge of the sea. My favorite sheepshead spot ruined by fish feeders at nearby restaurants. Clouds of tiny catfish are the only thing now biting.

[@BikerDash]

Myself, ANY catfish I will not grab with my hands. They got tools for that, and if I forget the tool, I have a damn fool friend who'll grab anything. That last one, the Sheepshead, I never caught one the year I lived in Pensacola. Guessing you gotta be in a boat to get one?

[@ChrisG9978]

My 14 yr old son had his finger impaled by a saltwater catfish just last week out of the Caloosahatchee River in Ft Myers. Fortunately, it didn't cause him too much pain, just some minor discomfort and tingling. Generally larger cats have duller spines, the smaller ones have sharper spines on their dorsal and pectoral fins. Freshwater channel cats seem easier to handle and I've never been impaled by one.

[@dougkennedy4906]

I only fish small fresh water lakes and rivers. About the worst is catfish and the slime takes away pain. Now getting bit by a muskie, pike or walleye will ruin your day.

[@edwinbarragan4003]

U must be a weak ass person for a walleye or pike to fuck you up

[@Cputt50]

@@edwinbarragan4003 muskies can have 2 inch teeth

[@Randylayhe001]

On the Indian River unhooking fish for my kids a 13" hardhead dropped into the top of my foot.. spine stuck about half inch deep, fish stuck on foot, lucky spine didn't break off. Pulled it off after some attempts, broke a blood vessel, damaged tendon, swelled up like a golf ball, no shoe for a week..indescribable pain for the first hour, been stuck more times than remember but I'll never forget that one!

[@papapreston2356]

I'd put lionfish on there as well

[@DeucesWildRC]

The Oyster fish can also deliver a punishing bite, got my thumb caught in ones mouth trying to remove the hook and it felt like someone took a pair of pliers and clamped down, I’ve caught all these fish mentioned in this video when I lived by the gulf and they’re all equipped to administer pain even some of the smallest ones you’d think are harmless.

[@DanSanChannel]

LMAO, He's one of those people that's scared of gastop and hard hard catfish. Please, its all about technique. Or maybe its because I'm use to handling them from fishing so long. You got me feeling like crocodile dundee since i always bare hand them and garfish lol

[@thatknifeaddict935]

Exactly bro, it is literally just three fins to avoid. Just a basic hand placement is all you need

[@ryanshaw3571]

I caught one hard head before and it was my first time salt water fishing and I could hold these easily without getting a spine in me

[@Juandongduck]

I don't grab the because of the slime lol. I don't want to get messy!

[@Jaco3920]

I've got tons of experience with gafftopsail catfish, and I have no idea why he included images of them. All you need to do is set them aside and a grab a glove while they calm down, then you just grab them from behind. They won't even try to move until you let them go.

[@rickshinn8418]

Thanx for all this advice! Heading to Panama City next week and fish the surf for the 1st time. I need to memorize these fish other than catfish. Checked out your taste test videos. Enjoyed them.

[@markellefultz5131]

Me literally 3 days ago caught 25 mangrove snapper and un hooked them with my hands each time👁👄👁

[@The-Sportsman69]

I went fishing father's day in the afternoon and fished into the night . Around 11:00 pm I got a catfish barb in my right hand palm and I had a hard time getting it out ,I had to go to the E.R .

[@exoticlemonlover]

Hate unhooking pinfish as bycatch too!

[@AnglerUpTv]

exotic lemonlover lol yeah

[@pedrowhack-a-mole6786]

Pinfish are not bycatch, they are free bait!

[@crf80fdarkdays]

I've also had a mangrove jack (slightly different fish I belive) latch onto my finger, they've got a crazy strong jaw for a smaller fish

[@ThePolarBearProductions]

At 3:47 I didn’t realize the footage was backwards and thought “You Evil bastard” lmao

[@paulabuchanan7550]

its not backwards

[@alessioverme1192]

It’s not backwards. He’s using the fish as live bait. VERY COMMON

[@ThePolarBearProductions]

@@alessioverme1192 Ah ok. Well I clearly have attention issues. Lol

[@averagefishkeeper6066]

I’m going saltwater fishing tomorrow with my uncle and cousin I’m staying for the weekend and I’m new to saltwater fishing I fish mostly freshwater this helps a lot thank you 👍

[@alanfrye2706]

Trout aren't as bad as he makes them out to be. Just have to get the gill plate. In 5 yrs not a scratch. The rest hell yeah be cautious. I would personally move hard head cats up the list. Ive still got the spine that nailed me. I was to afraid to pull it out as a newbie. He lost his fin and I paddled two miles back to shore impaled by what appears to be a metal jigsaw blade. Trust me you don't want that. No er, no surgery, hurt like hell for days. Sore for weeks five yrs late knuckles a little bigger on my right vs left hand.

[@Backlashed]

I'll take snappers and sheepshead over stingrays any day.

[@Cole-sq2ob]

Backlashed I agree

[@abelmata5192]

My son & I remove hooks out of hard head catfish with our bare hands. It’s easier than you’d think. Snapper fish yea be careful. Use gloves. Be careful of sharks those things got a mean bite.

[@davidboehmer2282]

Only trouble is. That's an edible Gafftopsail Catfish. Hardhead is a Trash Fish. Either way if you get stuck is. Use the slime of the Catfish as a antidote. Slime off catfish neutralizes the sting.

[@redfish1365]

The hardhead is actually good eating if you get them big enough.

[@victorwanstreet3038]

I eat saltwater catfish all the time

[@rhelgames-atoning9229]

The slime is an urban myth and will only make the chance of infection higher.

[@torresfishingFL]

To me, i dont consider any fish trash fish because they all have advantages and disadvantages, like catfish are very commonly caught here in florida and the southern states because of how abundant they are

[@JACKALTOOTH100]

Nah man you’re crazy. I’ve eaten hardheads and honest to god one of the best fish I’ve had.

[@dinktv9095]

I have been catching salt and fresh water catfish my whole life and I have never been stuck, you just gotta learn to hold them right if they are hand sized, if it’s to big use a lipper.

[@ntbrav4329]

Always use gloves and plylers for snapper Me: catches my first mangrove snapper and hold it like a bluegill and take hook out

[@williamcote2841]

You got some balls

[@lewisproffitt9584]

@@williamcote2841 nobody ever told me so I always did it like this but luckily never got hurt lol

[@williamcote2841]

@@lewisproffitt9584 now you know 😄

[@fishnicius714]

Helpful info! Thanks! Those snapper don’t even look vicious!

[@frankreyes3558]

This is my first time hearing abt a guy that gets injured every time he goes fishing 😂💀🤦🏽‍♂️

[@edgarrivas5791]

You should do a segment on fish on the Pacific side. Nice video.

[@kwalkjr9938]

I got an infection from a pink snapper one time ....oh wait that was from the bar down the road never mind

[@benjaminrapp7418]

Oh that's nasty... - Cleveland Brown

[@charlesthompson4851]

If u get stuck by a hard head-cat rub the slime from the belly into the wond will hurt less&heal quicker

[@charlesthompson4851]

Also flounder got a mouth full of razor teeth

[@seanwoodburn2616]

I have guided on the West Coast for years. Tailing shark of any size is something you get away with until the time you don't.

[@strangeperson700]

Baby shark!!! Do do do do do do!!!

[@brandiwynter]

I've been finned many times by freshwater cats and it hurts like hell but the saltwater cat that got me was exponentially worse. It jumped as I was trying to remove the hook and jammed its fin into my index finger so hard it stuck into to bone and then yanked right out again. The pain was instantly extremely bad but within a few seconds it got worse. It was absolutely excruciating and my vision started to black out and I got super nauseous. I didn't have insurance so I didn't go to the doctor. My finger swelled up so big I was afraid it was going to split open. It turned all blue and black and was impossible to move. It stayed swollen and discolored for about a month before it started to slowly heal. I will NEVER EVER EVER try to handle a saltwater catfish again.

[@MrMetalEric]

Imagine going to the hospital for a catfish sting. Lmao

[@dbjones200428]

I’ve handled thousands of catfish fresh an salt water. I can’t count how many times I’ve been barbed and never had to go to the hospital... lol and the hardhead in his video was a gaftopsail catfish...

[@Dominguez2500]

Never been stung by one 🙏🏽 I caught plenty of them

[@konnerbrown9823]

Draco I got stung in the first one I cot

[@davidratliff807]

I’ve been stung so many times, never had to see a Dr.

[@ajginfinity]

Well when the barb goes through your finger and joint you don’t really have much of a choice lol

[@noxeman2010]

Caught 2 of the top 5. Hammerhead shark of the shore about 3 feet long and a saltwater catfish that sent me to the E.R with horrible pain in my hand, the worst pain I've ever felt. The top fin for underneath my tendon and required surgery with whole body anesthesia plus the infection was horrible, my hand was completely swollen.

[@jacobschannel]

One thing I hear a lot is,... WEAR GLOVES! Never fish without a pair of good fishing gloves!

[@captjinxmarine9832]

I started laughing when you said Snapper, teeth popped into my head. I still have a couple of white spots on my left. Lol

[@trevoranthony6747]

If you get stabbed by a catfish rub wherever you got stabbed in its belly. Stops venom and there’s no swelling. Happy fishing

[@richardcatalinajr.369]

I've caught many freshwater catfish and bullheads over the past 50 years and have never been stabbed. A few years ago was fishing and catching cats with my boys in the Intercoastal near Jacksonville from a dock. Reeled one in and it was jumping and swinging on the line. The lateral barb went deep into my left hand. Being barbed, the only way to get the catfish off my hand was to cut the barb with the wire cutter on my needle nose pliers. The pain from the venom was awful. Off to the hospital we went to remove the barb and get an IV of antibiotics, etc. - the blood vessels in my arm dilated and turned dark blue. I will NEVER touch a saltwater cat again. Never.

[@justingreen2730]

Are you kidding me a speckle trout 😂 I’ve been grabbing specks my whole life i stick my hands in their mouth💀cmon now

[@billyg.2677]

He said its because theyre slippery and people get the hooks in their hand.

[@mochachinolatte4397]

Thanks. Ive only fished salt water a few times.. I had no clue what I was looking at. Thanks for some tips. Id like too see more tips like this with other kinds of salty fish.

[@CaptMike]

Caught them all and the only one I watch out for is the catfish. There are plenty of salt water fish that should be on your list, but not these. by the way, I did not leave a "dislike" as you are welcome to your opinion,.

[@keepitsimplestupid1209]

Saltwater catfish not only will stick you every chance they get but are fiesty as all hell, but are also some really beautiful fish

[@Darrytheprince]

when he said "baby shark" i went straight to the comment section and was dissappointed

[@iDatedMyPizza]

I'm in the Midwest and I fish in lakes. The only fish I use pliers with is a bullhead catfish, and pike. I also went deep sea fishing in 20010 with my dad and we dehooked all of our snappers

[@mrguppy1016]

CATFISH ONLY STAB NOOBS 🌈👍🏻😂🤣😱

[@frogdog51]

Yep. Gotta know the claw grip or your not a real guide.

[@marduck111]

Dude and he called a sailcat a hardhead...

[@rxonmymind8362]

Screw that. I’ll take a machete to it’s head.

[@turdferguson8227]

marduck111 galftop

[@mrguppy1016]

Rxonmymind Noobbbb

[@bridgettwilliams6329]

Everyone that fishes should watch this video. Very good info. I recently had to go to the emergency room from getting stabbed by a catfish.

[@dimwitrj]

5:07 do do do do do do

[@chapstickwarrior9277]

Careful handling pinfish. Those little guys live up to their name.