I've been unlucky enough to get the business dealing of a dogfish. It was painful for a couple days and itched for very long time- even after it healed.
As for a skate around here, no or least not yet.
But, I was fishing off the Florida coast and as the tide moved in, I also went inshore chasing redfish and trout. In about 4ft of water, I hooked up with something very heavy. Turns out the weight was a stingray with about 3.5ft wingspan that had buried itself in the thick marsh mud. I could see the ray and it wasn't going to give up the fight so I jumped out of the boat I could just use my hands to unearth the thing. I stepped on another ray that I did not see andthe barb went into my ankle and up {inside} my lower leg. It was paralyzing.
So, there I was, in water halfway up my torso with that barb stuck in one leg, the other leg sinking into marsh mud on an incoming tide. I left my rod on the boat as the plan was to use a flounder gig to get the ray. The ray that had injured me suddenly took off, breaking the barb off.
After struggling to get in the boat, I finally managed it and noticed my rod was gone. Through the blood stained water, I could see the ray had left the area, too.
I spent the next two weeks in the hospital with a leg and foot so swollen, it looked like an amputation would be required. My foot had turned a deep purple. The swelling finally goes down after massive doses of antibiotics and I had been geeked up on demerol. It took a three hour surgery to get the barb out.
I still have numb zones inthat foot and sections of my ankle and lower leg. I've decided that after 18 years, ain't nothing going to change.