Great pics Guys.
Tony, Do you eat rays? I catch a few surf fishing for sharks and have never kept one. If they are good to eat I may next time.RC

Thanks RC. Yes the Stingrays are very good to eat. You can prepare them just like you do almost any other fish. You can bake,broil,deep fry, dip batter etc. That is one of the reason I like going after them. I will be after them again sometime in June or July. They are a lot of fun to hunt
 Tony

Dang thats a big fish!!!

Awesome ray Tony! Makes me want to get out there and try that one day! Thanks for sharing and love this thread!

Tony. .  nice ray.  Next time you get the chance, can you P L E A S E try to do a clean a long and show us how to clean one and what we need to look for in terms of edible meat !

ChuckC

Filleting a Cownose ray

Preparing Stingrays

Unlike Carp, and Gar, stingrays are delicious and taste similar to crabmeat and shrimp. It is one of the few species of fish that are great to bowfish and are edible. The meat of the stingrays are found in the wings. On the cownose rays, there is considerable meat on both the upper and underside of the wings, on the Southern Ray most meat is found on the top of the wing. Make a cut similar to the one shown in the picture however be certain not to cut into the white stomach lining which looks similar to silverskin on a whitetail. Skin back exposing just the fillets, and cut along the bottom of the ray's wing to remove the meat. On a 60lb stingray you could expect about 10-15 lbs. of boneless fillets.

The way to start the day! Ralph!

Tony, gonna have to try a ray now! I will get some over the weekend and take them to the firehouse and serve em!

All this threead is unreal - yall have some great pics and stories -

Tony you have some great old time photos! Keep em coming  

I could use a stumpshooting partner.  Any volunteers?    

Waiting for hogs.

Love the old pictures Tony,got any of Allagash?  

Great Pictures Tony!