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Posted 10/5/2008 10:18:32 PM
Ruby Red Lip

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Went fishing around Fort Pickens on Sunday 9/28/08 with my dad and girlfriend and had a little luck.  We caught several small red snapper and gag before I hooked up with my first keeper red snapper in the bay and first keeper grouper of the year on a live pinfish.  My dad later caught a nice king free lining an alewife.  Just before calling it a day I happened to catch a monster stingray after we tusseled for a while.  I haven't knowingly ate stingray yet, but this one was filleted out with help of my dad. I'm looking forward to giving it a try. 

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Posted 10/5/2008 10:26:26 PM
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Nice catch, that is a big ass sting ray
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Posted 10/5/2008 10:28:07 PM


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Posted 10/6/2008 2:33:35 AM


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Let us know how the Ray turned out after you try it.  I might decide to bring home a couple myself.  Anyway, great catch, I bet it was a hell of a fight!!!

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Posted 10/6/2008 7:17:50 AM
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Congratulations on the Gag! You sure have the right size stingray to have some good meat on the wings. I am looking forward to hearing how it turns out. Have heard all my life that stingray wings are delicious. Thanks for the report and the pics.
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Posted 10/6/2008 9:16:32 AM


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Nice day in the bay. Congrats and let us know how the Stingray turns out.

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Posted 10/11/2008 6:43:01 PM
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Never knew you could eat stingrays
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Posted 10/11/2008 7:01:42 PM


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If you've eaten scallops in a rest, chances are pretty good you've eatin stingray. Heard they were pretty good.

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Posted 10/13/2008 5:05:03 PM


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Where did you catch ther keeper grouper?

And nice ray

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Posted 10/19/2008 10:34:54 AM
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what pound test are you using for the grouper? Nice catch !
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Posted 10/19/2008 12:15:30 PM


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Nice fish.  Are you sure you were in the Bay?  That is a whopper of a ray you caught there.  How was it filleted?  Anything like filleting a flounder?  I would like to learn how to clean 'em so  I can keep a couple myself.  that's a tasty looking grouper you got there.  You should try smoking the King, it tastes AWESOME

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Posted 10/20/2008 2:43:45 PM
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The grouper and stingray were caught using 30 pound test line on a PENN 9500 and with a leader composed of about 5 feet of 40 pound test flourocarbon.  

The grouper pulled very hard at first pulling drag for a few seconds, but luckily I was able to turn him without too much trouble after he made that initial run.

The ray was a long drawn out fight.  When I first hooked the ray it slowly took me around the boat a couple of times pulling drag the whole way.  Then after a while it was more or less a tug of war, me getting 3 feet of line and then it would take 6. After 15- 20 min (guessing) I was finally able to pull him to the boat but it wasn't pretty once he was gaffed and my dad stuck him between the eyes with a fillet knife and left me holding the gaff.  I thought he was going to pull then shake my arms off.  Once he was finally subdued it took both my day and I to pull him over the gunwale.

To clean the ray, we started by cutting it's wings off. Then there is a flat piece of cartilage that goes down the middle of each wing in which we cut- filleted the meat off the top part of the cartilage, then the bottom part. Then the skin was cut- filleted off.  Then the meat was cut up into "steaks." I'm sure there are other and better ways to do it, so this is just the way we did it.

I haven't tried the stingray yet.  It's still in the freezer. 

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Posted 10/20/2008 4:20:50 PM


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thars the biggest stingray ive ever seen and yea most restuerants(i know its misspelled) use stingray as "scallops" during scallop season you should be able to tell the difference stingray is much tougher meat

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