Strange things can happen with a catfish spine and a person’s flesh!!
I dropped a large channel catfish while standing on the deck of a jon boat, it bounced off the front of my foot and went back into the water. I was wearing hip boots and I felt a sharp pain when the fish hit my foot but did not think much of it at the time. When we were done fishing and back at the boat ramp I stepped out of the boat and I could feel a leak in my boot that the catfish hit on his way back in the water. When I removed my boot I poured out a bunch of red colored water and my sock near my big toe was bloody. Come to find out, when that catfish hit my foot it’s spine went through my boot and clear through the end of big toe just ahead of my toenail. The fishes weight had pulled the spine out when it went over the side of the boat. It didn’t hunt until a couple hours later.
Buffalo Fishhead