07-15-2005, 06:46 PM
Great pics and description.
I have a story about nasy cat finnings. The night before the ship I was on was going to be deployed some friends were on the fantail doing a bit of fishing someone caught what I remember was a really large Red Drum??. Anyway we all got the fishing bug real fast. In a mater of minutes the fantail was busy with sailors trying to catch their own monster. Some of the guys were not familiar with catfish which happens to be the BULK of the catch in the Cooper River. Well there were a few of us tasked with helping the others with the catfish. One friend brought in a catfish and while the "hook getter outter" was taking the hook out the fish rolled and stuck a fin ALL THE FREAKING WAY THROUGH HIS FINGER. I thought he was joking when he said the fish stuck him. Well when I saw what had happened I ran to the shop and got some dykes to cut the fin, needless to say he would not let me anyplace near his wound. So I go get the corpsman and wake him up to tell him "A sailor has a fish stuck to his hand". The corpsman cut the fin off the fish and pulled the fin all the way through. Yes folks his finger had worked all the way to the body of the fish, and yes the corpsman did exactly what I told him I was going to do. I guess when you have Hospital Corpsman in your job title people trust you more.
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I have a story about nasy cat finnings. The night before the ship I was on was going to be deployed some friends were on the fantail doing a bit of fishing someone caught what I remember was a really large Red Drum??. Anyway we all got the fishing bug real fast. In a mater of minutes the fantail was busy with sailors trying to catch their own monster. Some of the guys were not familiar with catfish which happens to be the BULK of the catch in the Cooper River. Well there were a few of us tasked with helping the others with the catfish. One friend brought in a catfish and while the "hook getter outter" was taking the hook out the fish rolled and stuck a fin ALL THE FREAKING WAY THROUGH HIS FINGER. I thought he was joking when he said the fish stuck him. Well when I saw what had happened I ran to the shop and got some dykes to cut the fin, needless to say he would not let me anyplace near his wound. So I go get the corpsman and wake him up to tell him "A sailor has a fish stuck to his hand". The corpsman cut the fin off the fish and pulled the fin all the way through. Yes folks his finger had worked all the way to the body of the fish, and yes the corpsman did exactly what I told him I was going to do. I guess when you have Hospital Corpsman in your job title people trust you more.
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