Angel sharks?

[one_drake]

Love them, leave them, or eat them? You tube has a few funny angel shark attacks to watch too.

[polespearnfun]

eat

[ApneaAddict]

They're pretty cool. I'll bet they fight like hell, but I don't think I'd ever shoot one.

["Yard-Sale Josh"]

biggest pain in the ass to clean you have no idea. never will i take another.

[Q]

My friend shot one a few years back. It was good to eat but was a PITS to clean.

Q.

[Namor]

They are my favorite seafood excluding shellfish. Their meat is pure white and tastes more like pork than fish. They do fight, bite and dont die easy. The last one I took bent my knife over completely in his effort to arch his back over far enough to reach my face as I swam in with him. Its part of the challenge and fun...

If you take one scrape the thick mucus coating from the shark at the beach, and again before butchering, and again from any skin on the steaks before cooking...They are not that hard to clean, you just cut them into steaks with a solid SHARP butchers knife. Dont ruin your fillet knife. Keep your whet stone handy as their tough skin will dull the knife several times in the course of butchering them.

You can eat every inch of them all the way from their ugly head to their wing tips. The meat easily separates from the skin and cartilaginous skeleton once cooked. Freezing in marinade seems to do the flesh no harm.

I like 'em, and the next one I see thats not so big that I cant carry it up the cliff trail is going home with me and ending up on my grill.

Jeremy

[WESTBURY]

Over in the Ventura harbor, Andreas seafood signature fish and chips plate is angel shark.
Nice, firm, white meat
Delicious!

[Michael J]

They fight like hell!!
I shot a big one,and before I could get on it,and kill it,it bent the shit out of my shaft....powerfull critters...but tasty.
Namor's right.Keep your stone handy.
MJ.

[PhatFireMan]

Originally Posted by WESTBURY

Andreas seafood signature fish and chips plate is angel shark.

And it's only like $18 too! I've never had anything there that I did not like...but it makes me sick to pay out scrill like that as I see the guy in the back pouring frozen/breaded seafood into the fryer. Reminds me of Neptune's Net, over-priced tourist trap. Just sayin'.

Brandon...you crack me up. Seriously. Reminds me of the old saying "...if it flies, it dies." I think next you should ask if sea lions are any good to eat, there doesn't seem to be any shortage of those sunz-a-biches around. Plus you can make a nice speargun bag out of the pelt.

[headshot]

Tasty but nasty fighters.

Shoot them in head at close range in the head, keeping the shaft in the gun. Grab the both sides of the shaft to gain control. The brain is hard to find, So I cut the spine behind the head.

An unmolested angel shark will stay in the same spot for hours if not days.
I saw the same shark over and over for three days until I finally shot it.

[harlostatus]

So if angel sharks are good, then how about shovelnoses? DFG website says they're good, but then again I don't know if that's accurate at all.

Harley

[one_drake]

Well i might as well come clean.... I ran into one and put a shaft straight into his head right between the ports to his gills. He didn't move, he didn't fight, and he was three times as delicious as i could have ever imagined. So yes Kris...it flies, it dies. A big plus is these things are full of meat. So hit them where it hurts and eat well my friends.

[Namor]

nice catch

Jeremy

[C monster]

Both angel shark and shovelnose are absolutely delicious. Believe it or not, so is bat ray. I had it in Mex, and oh man... phenomenal stuff.

SC

[dustyyoungblood]

Originally Posted by one_drake

Well i might as well come clean.... I ran into one and put a shaft straight into his head right between the ports to his gills. He didn't move, he didn't fight, and he was three times as delicious as i could have ever imagined. So yes Kris...it flies, it dies. A big plus is these things are full of meat. So hit them where it hurts and eat well my friends.

Awesome photo!!!