Foot recovered ok Vic?

All good now Ross. Placing my foot in and out of a bucket of hot water for 7 hours did the trick, and the next morning it felt like any other cut. Plenty of bugs in the estuary and ocean so I'll keep an eye out for infection. Surprised at the amount of pain that the little critter inflicted.

Found this picture of a cobbler barb on the web and can see why it had no difficulty in piercing my O'Neill booty.

Oh crap Vic, I didn't realise it went through your bootie! I have been telling myself I am somewhat protected from the buggers with booties on.

Is this it?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/South_Australian_cobbler

I got stung by one of these years ago..Very painful..Ours were only a few cms long..

Crap didnt know we had them here let alone named after our state. Makes our razor fish rather plain.

Glad the foots OK

everything you didn't want to know about cobbler - in short they bloody hurt!

http://www.fish.wa.gov.au/Documents/recreational_fishing/fact_sheets/fact_sheet_cobbler.pdf