Careless angler gets spiked
AN angler has been taken to hospital after a spurdog punctured his arm causing him to bleed heavily.
A 39-year-old angler had been fishing two miles south of the Mewstone Rock in an 18-foot Shetland day angler called Betty Boop.
Dave Milford, Plymouth Lifeboat coxswain who went out to recover the man, said: "He’d brought it on board the boat and had been taking the hook out when the spine punctured his right fore arm.
"There was a lot of blood – it looked like it could have punctured an artery. An injury like that is very uncommon."
After receiving a call from the boat, the Plymouth lifeboat attended the scene, bandaged the injured man’s arm and took off the boat.
The Plymouth coastguard team got him ashore at the lifeboat station ay Millbay and he was taken to Derriford Hospital by ambulance.
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