Monster Ray

Mildbill611 · Post by **Mildbill611** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 3:24 pm

Caught this beast from the shore. Thirty minute fight. At least 5ft long, and 3.5 ft wide

swordfish · Post by **swordfish** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 3:24 pm

Good fight!

-swordfish

gruntking · Post by **gruntking** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 3:53 pm

one of my favorite things to catch on a slow day

Poseidon10/31 · Post by **Poseidon10/31** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 6:31 pm

How'd it taste?

tears143 · Post by **tears143** » Wed Feb 26, 2014 7:20 pm

I caught one of those with #20 and it was sure a fun fight!

808castaway · Post by **808castaway** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 2:12 am

I have heard of folks using cookie cutters and slicing "imitation scallops" from the wings. Never tried it though, I always throw em back. I have caught many large rays like that over the years and I will say, they put up a much better fight from shore. From a boat they just tend to stick themselves to the bottom instead of trying to swim away because they feel the pull from straight above.

Mildbill611 · Post by **Mildbill611** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 10:02 am

Is it legal to keep them?? I read they are a protected species????

tears143 · Post by **tears143** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 7:15 pm

Mildbill611 wrote:Is it legal to keep them?? I read they are a protected species????

depends on the ray... That one is fine. The one that you have to look out for is the spotted eagle ray and the mantra ray. There are probably a few other protected one as well.

PhishingPhanatic · Post by **PhishingPhanatic** » Thu Feb 27, 2014 7:58 pm

808castaway wrote:I have heard of folks using cookie cutters and slicing "imitation scallops" from the wings..

I heard that as well, and tried it once with a medium stingray I caught in the Keys. Tried it once is the key word. Tasted nothing like scallops, instead it tasted like nasty stingray.

Poseidon10/31 · Post by **Poseidon10/31** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 6:03 am

Was watching that show bizarre foods and the guy said it was good. he was eating a cow nose or something and it looked exactly like beef. It def wasn't a nice looking white fish filet tho.

tears143 · Post by **tears143** » Fri Feb 28, 2014 7:46 pm

Poseidon10/31 wrote:Was watching that show bizarre foods and the guy said it was good. he was eating a cow nose or something and it looked exactly like beef. It def wasn't a nice looking white fish filet tho.

Ray are white meat... if you fillet and skin it...Got to clean them ASAP and put them on ice. The older one taste/smell fishy

Greatwun · Post by **Greatwun** » Sun Mar 02, 2014 12:40 am

Nice ray! They sure do put up a good fight.

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