Stingray City Louisiana Style

[Cubera Head]

Six Git 'Em divers went out to the rigs on Capt. Guitreau's diving machine "Heavy Metal" a while back and found a bunch of big stingrays. Total haul was 799.8 lbs, with the biggest three going 153, 146, and 140. What a blast shooting these things, but you better hang on to your gun and your mask. We got 7-rays but paid for it in gear with 1-complete speargun taken, 1 MT #4 broken at the handle, 3 bent shafts, 2 bent gaffs, and a competely destroyed shimano 100lb scale. Ended up with 150+ lbs of pure white meat.

[Cubera Head]

Capt. Guitreau with the 153# ray.

[Cubera Head]

My 146# ray provided me with a thorough tour of the Gulf.

[zds3488]

are they good to eat? I was just about to ask why shoot em.

[Marcus]

Yes, they are good to eat.

That's a nice ARS laying on the deck there, too.

153# Ray!:eek: That's gotta be one hell of a ride!

[ROCK BOTTOM]

Did you eat the babies that popped out? I bet they are like veal.

Zz

[Marcus]

"Did you eat the babies that popped out? I bet they are like veal."

Mmmm....all nice and tender...fry 'em whole like softshell crab. Ya' got ma tounge slappin' all the hair off my head thinkin' 'bout it. :)

[Louis Rossignol]

Good rays Guitreau,, your in the lead now,, or are you? Good luck dude.

My personal best. 277-4

[Louis Rossignol]

We know where they're at.

[Louis Rossignol]

We're gonna a get em,, Git em.

[Spearooo]

Are these thing stonable? I wouldn't know. or is it better to shot them in a place that offers good leverage?

[Louis Rossignol]

They're like shooting a giant pice of plywood. I like shooting them in the flap of meat in the front of their head. When you pull on them at least they come up. Don't ever tail shoot one. Everytime you pull on them they swim back to the bottom.

If you stone em it's like pulling up dead weight, but I've never stoned one yet.

[PatMyGreen]

Since you don't stone them, whats the plan for the pointy end? Hard to believe you can even fight those things to the surface much less have to swim them to a boat.

[freediver74]

Do you guys powerhead those things or what?

[bottomnout]

It gets pretty interesting fighting those bad boys. You just got to hold on and try to get them tied off. Or let them drag you outside the rig, just got to watch out for old shirmp nets and shit like that. if we want our fish to count for the council we can't power head them, not that we would anyway, takes all the sport out of it.

[Louis Rossignol]

As far as the pointy end,,STAY AWAY FROM IT, it hurts, ask Cory Henry. I shot a 141 pounder one day, pulled it onboard, slipped on the deck because the rough seas and had the stinger in between my nuts, I was a scared muther. The stingray almost gave successfully what a doctor couldn't do, a vasectomy.

Another time me and Stan shot these 50 pound bat rays, he came aboard the boat non-shelant, I told him they have a stinger, he didn't know, the stinger had pierced his booty but went under the bottom of his foot. He was lucky.

[HEAVY METAL]

Originally posted by Louis Rossignol
Good rays Guitreau,, your in the lead now,, or are you? Good luck dude.

My guess is we are about even considering it's a long time till December 31. It is getting interesting though!

My personal best. 277-4

Nice one! What type of ray is it? Is that what they call a rough tail ray?

[Louis Rossignol]

Yeah, that's a rough tail. He was thick.

[Cubera Head]

12 year old in the picture with your Ray Louis? Hell, Papa Smurf looks like a teenager too!

[Louis Rossignol]

Originally posted by Cubera Head
12 year old in the picture with your Ray Louis? Hell, Papa Smurf looks like a teenager too!

Yeah, I've probably been at it since you were in diapers,

that was 1988 at the Grande Isle Tarpon Rodeo, I won King Spearfisherman that year and my stingray is still the rodeo record to this day. Notice Gerald Atkins in the background at the scales. Your buddy Trip Daigle was pissed. Is Toby Rabalis still diving with you guys?

[Nsearch]

Any pic's after 1985?

[el tiegro]

Does anyone here in florida shoot them? Are we allowed? Just wondering?

[PatMyGreen]

Its allowed as far as I know. I would think it falls into the unregulated species rule of 2 fish or 100#s, whichever is more.

[SLAYER]

How do you clean them? How do you cook them? and what do they taste like?

[PatMyGreen]

Taste like scallops, safe bet you've had stingray before if you ordered fresh scallops out of season. I've heard the way to get the meat is to use a piece of pipe and jam it down cookie cutter style. They can then be sauteed or otherwise cooked just like the real thing. Just heresay and rumor though....I've never tried it.

[deadend]

I remember as a kid seeing some guys on the Steinhatchee river with a big pile of rays on their boat punching plugs in the wings. When I asked them what they were doing they said "making scallops!"