i was at the packery channel on the island and this lady fisherwoman caught this thing that looks like a big [censored] snail. it is the color and texture almost of a dogfish but its back looks like it has wings kind of like a stingray and when she touched it her hand went numb. anybody know what it was?

Sounds like a Man O' War jellyfish. No photo?

i've heard'em called inkfish, but i think that might be wrong

i think it's some sorta sea slug and looked'em up in the past but don't remember the exact name i found

You never know what you will catch from the ocean. If you can find a picture of it somewhere blove post the link please.

I did a quick image search using inkfish (thanks Bill) and found a reference to sea hares. I searched those with google images and came up with a critter that matches your description - take a look blove and see if this is it.

http://outdoortravels.com/files/FL_Canaveral2_01_SeaHare.gif

yeah it does sound like a seahare but i cant imagine why her hand would go numb..

yeah thats it! awesome thanks. yeah now that i think of it it was spitting out purple ink looking stuff in the water. thanks guys

I was doing some reading on the creatures and I guess they occasionally have problems in places like Australia with sea hares washing up on beaches, being eaten by dogs and the dogs subsequently dying rather nasty deaths. The ink-type stuff produced (they apparently make at least three different colored inks) has been shown to produce paralysis, but hardly anything is really known about these critters. So maybe the woman actually got pretty lucky getting only a numb hand. Who knows.

If I pull up something that I can't identify, I ain't touching it ...

bingo!...... that's it (damned memory o'mine)

i knew immediatly from the description it had to be a sea hare but couldn't remember the name cuz locals in port isabel been calling'em sumpin else

always wanted to try one for bait offshore.......... love the way they try to fly thru the water but never get anywhere

yeah im not messing with them

We always called em a vagina fish

hows west tx these days sak? im from the permian originally.

I think they're in the mollusca phylum. If you wanted to do some research on it.

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something along those lines depending on who you're talking to