KBwhokbs said..
Wave slave, I didn't suggest you pour the boiling water on your foot. Bring a bucket of cool water up to the hottest water you can stand, probably 40 -50 degrees.
Trust me ( and others) it works.
Local anaesthetic is virtually useless.
I haven't been stung by a cobbler before (luckily) but I've read a few different books that recommend the hot water treatment. Not boiling, just as hot as you can bare. One of my mates got stung and I recommended this to him and he said it worked.
The venom reacts differently with everyone though, so you have to be careful. I've spoken to some of the commerical cobbler fishers down in Denmark, and they reckon they carry epipens with them. One bloke told me when he gets stung he injects himself, then goes off to hospital. These guys aren't pussys, and deal with hundreds of the bloody cobbler every day, so it must be bloody painful. That being sad, they usually get stung in the hands, and some of the fish they catch are almost a metre long.
