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Yesterday I went fishing for the first time in a while. It was fun I caught 4 trout. But does anyone know the fastest way to kill a fish you catch? Because I just put those on the stringer and felt a little bad because it seemed like kind of a slow death.
 
The birb king said:
Yesterday I went fishing for the first time in a while. It was fun I caught 4 trout. But does anyone know the fastest way to kill a fish you catch? Because I just put those on the stringer and felt a little bad because it seemed like kind of a slow death.
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I put them on the stringer in water to keep them alive until I wacked them in the head and fillet
 
NanaK said:
Just a warning about the ticks. I hate those little blood suckers!

They can cause real problems. I had Rocky Mt Spotted Fever a few years ago. Got very sick before I went to the dr. Was told that can cause organ damage and death if not treated quickly with proper antibitics. Suppose I was lucky. Didn't feel so lucky with a headache and fatigue for about a month.

So if you think you've been bitten and get sick within a week or two, please get to the dr!
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I’ve been bitten by several hundred ticks from the deep woods since childhood. But the tick that gave me Lyme got on me in an urban park. I had the textbook bullseye rash but my Dr. then blew me off, because “Lyme disease doesn’t happen in Florida.” It took a year before my body and mind started to change, and it went undiagnosed for almost a decade until a Dr. finally blood tested me for it. By then the damage was done. It changed my life. I have to fight harder to do my job than I would have otherwise. But I’m not destroyed by it.

I don’t think much can be done about it if you live the outdoor life. You either get it our you don’t. In my case, all of my precautions in the woods didn’t matter because the tick that gave it to me got on me somewhere I never expected a tick to be. I think it was Divine fate. Sometimes bad things are willed to happen to us and that’s just the way it is. You can either accept it or not but you can’t change the fact that there’s much in life you can’t control. A bug biting you while carrying a disease is one of those things.

I do think you can find a Dr. that takes Lyme seriously and possibly knock it out early with proper treatment.
 
Florida Bullfrog said:
I’ve been bitten by several hundred ticks from the deep woods since childhood. But the tick that gave me Lyme got on me in an urban park. I had the textbook bullseye rash but my Dr. then blew me off, because “Lyme disease doesn’t happen in Florida.” It took a year before my body and mind started to change, and it went undiagnosed for almost a decade until a Dr. finally blood tested me for it. By then the damage was done. It changed my life. I have to fight harder to do my job than I would have otherwise. But I’m not destroyed by it.

I don’t think much can be done about it if you live the outdoor life. You either get it our you don’t. In my case, all of my precautions in the woods didn’t matter because the tick that gave it to me got on me somewhere I never expected a tick to be. I think it was Divine fate. Sometimes bad things are willed to happen to us and that’s just the way it is. You can either accept it or not but you can’t change the fact that there’s much in life you can’t control. A bug biting you while carrying a disease is one of those things.

I do think you can find a Dr. that takes Lyme seriously and possibly knock it out early with proper treatment.
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Lyme can cause some very real problems also. Glad you were finally able to find a Dr. to help.

I was raised camping, fishing and some hunting. Of course a crowd of us was always sneaking through the woods to a pond for swimming. If you got on parents nerves you were told go outside and play. Never had anything worse than a few itchy mosquito bites.
Weeding some gardens, right here at home I catch a tick-borne infection! I was using deet and I hate that stuff. It got me anyway.
Not going to stop gardening or fishing when I get the chance!
Just like you, I think some things just happen.

A couple years after the Rocky Mt Spotted fever incident I was bitten by a Brown Recluse Spider. That was painful for weeks. It causes necrosis. I really thought I'd loose my hand. I looked and felt that bad. Bad scar now but that's all thankfully.

Stuff like this never happened to me growing up. I hope I've had my share now.
 
NanaK said:
Lyme can cause some very real problems also. Glad you were finally able to find a Dr. to help.

I was raised camping, fishing and some hunting. Of course a crowd of us was always sneaking through the woods to a pond for swimming. If you got on parents nerves you were told go outside and play. Never had anything worse than a few itchy mosquito bites.
Weeding some gardens, right here at home I catch a tick-borne infection! I was using deet and I hate that stuff. It got me anyway.
Not going to stop gardening or fishing when I get the chance!
Just like you, I think some things just happen.

A couple years after the Rocky Mt Spotted fever incident I was bitten by a Brown Recluse Spider. That was painful for weeks. It causes necrosis. I really thought I'd loose my hand. I looked and felt that bad. Bad scar now but that's all thankfully.

Stuff like this never happened to me growing up. I hope I've had my share now.
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My brown recluse scar flares up occasionally and gets sore…..have you experienced anything like that?
 

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