Stingray handling

[gnominic]

We came to the rig we were servicing last year and a recreational dive boat (private) was diving on the platform. They told us they'd just be a minute because they had tied a stingray off in order to return to the boat for air.

How does one handle a stingray in the water? I really like em and I've caught them on a line before, but I don't know that I'd want to tangle with one at depth.

Someone fill me in. Do you have to be crazy to spear one?

-dennis

[MichaelBaranows]

I am sure some of the HellDivers will chime in on this on. Cause these are the guys that have the best experience with the StingRays.

[bug_power]

I've shot 3 or 4 at the jetties nothing huge, but maybe 20-40lbs With a spear through them they can't suck to the bottom too well, but will put up a pretty good fight. I simply drag them to the rocks or the shore where I can cut the barb and handle them appropriately.

[Louis Rossignol]

Hopefully I'll have some pics after Thrusday.

We're going to these super secret rigs and see if the rays are home. It's usually a sandy bottom, 60' - 80', so you just shoot a hundred pound ray and let him drag you. When they get tired, you just yank on the cable and he'll crank it up again, it's a blast. It's like underwater skiing, you just got to make sure you look straight ahead so your mask doesn't fly off.

[narcosis]

Louis, you crazy SOB, he wanted them for dinner, not transportation. Except I'm not sure which is crazier, riding them or eating them.

[pantoja73]

u don't have to be crazy to spear one ,u just need to be very careful.

[kjflyfish]

You don't have to be crazy to eat one either. Just hungry.

[FISHDIVER]

Rays are good eating if they are large enough to get meat off the under side. Try it.

[HydroHunter]

You don't have to be crazy to shoot them, but it helps! But they are good eating.

[John Galt]

You don't have to be crazy to shoot them, but it helps! But they are good eating.They taste like scollops...some dishonest restauranteurs punch them out of the ray wings with a biscuit cutter and charge you $12.00 a pound for "scollops".

Congrats, HH, on the baby boy. Sleeping thru the night yet? :D

[Louis Rossignol]

Nobody came over for any meat, what's up?

I had to toss the big bastard back.

I ain't eatin this shit.

[HydroHunter]

Yes, our little hunter is sleeping almost all night. Wakes up a couple times to eat, then zonks back out. I have him practising loading speargun bands when he is awake!
Thanks for asking about him.....