6 minutes ago, Ratherbfishing said:

 

I wouldn't have guessed it!  Mine hasn't passed (or that I could ever tell-it just stopped hurting).  I'd swear it was/is shaped like a cockle burr, though.   What's worse is that I don't even have something to put under my pillow for the kidney stone fairy.

I've passed them without knowing it..just not that one.

The most painful fishing experience.   It has to be when I was about fourteen years old.  In the summer we'd fish off of Bar Rock at the causeway from Horseneck Beach to Gooseberry Island.  It was a big rock that you could wade to, then fish off the opposite side which was fairly deep.  We'd catch Tautog, Scup, and sometimes lose our baits to the chauggies which were small fish with buck teeth.  They could strip the bait and hardly ever get caught.

 

One afternoon, as we left, I jumped into the water on the shallow side.  What I did not know, but will never forget, there was a mussel bed in that area.  I had several gashes on the bottom of my foot.  It ached for days.