In the interest of bringing some balance to the shark debate, they're not the only bitey critter to lose sleep over

Over Christmas I had a difference of opinion with a jumbo cray out the back of Carnac. In transferring from loop to boat it got hold of my finger. Turns out they pack a punch. Pics below - a couple are a bit gory. Interested to hear if anyone else has had a run in.

THAT IS NASTY. Set the drum lines.

Nice needle work!

Hope the Cray tastes good

Ouch!!!

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beastsurf said...
THAT IS NASTY. Set the drum lines.

Haha!

Can't say i've ever been bitten by a cray and never really been to concerned about it. Usually more worried about their slapping tail.
But after seeing that......

I think they are sometimes called a "southern fighter cray". Either way OUCH that one had some fight in him. I hope it tasted good

hope the crew at the ER informed you about infection. Cray poisioning occurs when the organisms that live on the cray get into your system, no doubt they cleaned the wound and probably gave you some anti-biotics, if not be sure to use some anti-septic stuff for the next week or so. I got poisioning a few times during my deckhand days and it sucks!

^^^True that cray infections are nasty & so are cuts from the spiky buggers. Thats
why I always used gardening gloves when I was pulling them from my pots

cray was obviously going for the thumb leg of ham in photo one

@bakesy - yup the guys at Freo ED did a great job with the cleaning and stitching. They put me on a couple of different antibiotics to handle the normal infection risk as well as the additional nasties that might be in the cray's mouth. So far there's no sign of infection so fingers crossed that it'll all go smoothly from here

Bet you enjoyed eating him, kinda getting your own back...


Nasty cut