Stingray

[jessopher]

Yes stingray. I swear for all the rednecks and coonasses I've met that touts if it moves I am going to eat it nobody wants to even try to get a stingray off their line to throw it back in. I watch alot of shows on foreign foods and I see alot of people around the world enjoy both stingray and eels which most of us wont touch. Well I caught one the other day and fellows we need to start cooking these things up. There are several videos online that will outline how to clean them. You eat the wings, they have a layer of cartilage on each wing and on the edge of the wing. The meat is white flaky stands that are very tender and clean tasting and it is popular to spice them up heavily in a bbq or curry style. I pan grilled mine with a cayenne based dry rub in a mixture of olive oil and butter. Now, to get me one of them eels.......

 

[grits]

Yes stingray. I swear for all the rednecks and coonasses I've met that touts if it moves I am going to eat it nobody wants to even try to get a stingray off their line to throw it back in. I watch alot of shows on foreign foods and I see alot of people around the world enjoy both stingray and eels which most of us wont touch. Well I caught one the other day and fellows we need to start cooking these things up. There are several videos online that will outline how to clean them. You eat the wings, they have a layer of cartilage on each wing and on the edge of the wing. The meat is white flaky stands that are very tender and clean tasting and it is popular to spice them up heavily in a bbq or curry style. I pan grilled mine with a cayenne based dry rub in a mixture of olive oil and butter. Now, to get me one of them eels.......

When you bad enough to take out the croc hunter I guess that get you some "sea cred". I am sure snookie would eat it. He likes dat him

 

[Bearco]

I put a barb about 3/4" in my finger from the tip a few weeks ago while cutting one up for shark bait. This was after I had removed the bard. Apparently, some have more than one. It was one of the most painful things I have felt. I had to wiggle it back and forth, then put it free with pliers.

Then my brother took a big one to the foot while walking in the lake. He has been seeing a wound care specialist for it. It was pretty bad. They had to go back in a cut a hole in his foot to allow it to heal properly.

We have been shooting rays for years with bows. They took their revenge this year one us.

 

[jessopher]

yeah those barbs are pretty mean. The one I caught I believe was a southern stingray and had small barbs going all down his spine as well as the main one which I believe was a little over three inches long (he was not that big). How I handled him was I had some needle-nose pliers I use to take fish off hooks and I picked him up by the base of the tail with a solid (crunch sound) grip and threw him in an ice-chest where he was plenty dead in minutes. Later after I cleaned him I cut the barb off to keep, I could see native people putting those things to use to gig frogs or something. I guess if the tail really bothered you it could be whacked off with like a k-bar.