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Posted: 5/28/2017 6:50:06 AM EDT

Apparently some peoples feels got hurt

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Posted: 5/28/2017 6:52:18 AM EDT

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Why would anyone give a shit?

Posted: 5/28/2017 6:54:51 AM EDT

[#2]

Good fish.

Fuck SJW PETA douchebags.

Posted: 5/28/2017 7:03:15 AM EDT

[#3]

Nice

Posted: 5/28/2017 7:04:13 AM EDT

[#4]

That is quite the majestic sea flap flap.

Posted: 5/28/2017 7:08:09 AM EDT

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It is really impressive, 4 lb test.

Posted: 5/28/2017 7:15:24 AM EDT

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Sea Flap Flap is tasty.

Posted: 5/28/2017 7:40:24 AM EDT

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It's not bad.

Posted: 5/28/2017 7:43:23 AM EDT

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But what I want to know. When beach patrol separated the groups, did the fisherman walk away with his catch?

Posted: 5/28/2017 7:45:16 AM EDT

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Those things are everywhere around here lately, size of car hood. Google roughtail stingray

Posted: 5/28/2017 7:47:55 AM EDT

[#10]

Holy shit that website sucks balls on mobile.

Posted: 5/28/2017 7:49:11 AM EDT

[#11]

Rays are cool. The flying wing of the sea.

Posted: 5/28/2017 7:49:19 AM EDT

[#12]

Dicks out for Steve Irwin.

Posted: 5/28/2017 7:50:05 AM EDT

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Sounds like it.

Posted: 5/28/2017 7:50:39 AM EDT

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Do people eat those? How are they cooked and what are they like?

Posted: 5/28/2017 7:52:32 AM EDT

[#15]

Rays are awesome and I love seeing them when I snorkel. Bonus, they taste great!

Posted: 5/28/2017 8:10:49 AM EDT

[#16]

I've only eaten skate, but I imagine a big ray is just tougher.

Posted: 5/28/2017 8:17:05 AM EDT

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Ever had restaurant scallops? Good chance you've eaten it then.

Posted: 5/28/2017 8:18:39 AM EDT

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Mind ya business.

Posted: 5/28/2017 8:21:00 AM EDT

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I have white meat but stringy not stingy

Posted: 5/28/2017 8:37:00 AM EDT

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One could make a nice pair of boots from that hide, and have enough left over for a matching belt. Fuck the PETA assholes who pulled that shit, to bad the fisherman didn't deck a few of them.

Posted: 5/28/2017 8:42:04 AM EDT

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I caught one that size many years ago. Knew my line would break, if I tried to haul it up the pier, like he did. We kept weighted gaffs on lines for this. Guy offers to help, I said sure. We wasn't good at handling the gaff, and got it tangled in my line. Yep, snapped if off.

Posted: 5/28/2017 9:02:30 AM EDT

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yup

Posted: 5/28/2017 9:05:37 AM EDT

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“From what I understand I think somebody dumped a bucket of water on somebody else and then there may have been some shoving,” Capt. Berard said.

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Good thing there weren't any children around.

Posted: 5/28/2017 9:09:35 AM EDT

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IGFA all tackle record for a Roughtail Stingray is 405lbs caught in 1972 in Islamorada,Fla.

A ray (the one pictured) that size would taste like shit.

They should have released it so it could make more rays (but people are abjectly stupid when it comes to these things).

Posted: 5/28/2017 9:30:16 AM EDT

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IGFA all tackle record for a Roughtail Stingray is 405lbs caught in 1972 in Islamorada,Fla.

A ray (the one pictured) that size would taste like shit.

They should have released it so it could make more rays (but people are abjectly stupid when it comes to these things).

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Why should they be released?
Do stingrays in that area create tourism?
Is the population declining?
Is it illegal to keep?
Can you use the hide to make products?
Can you eat the meat?

Attitudes like yours are going to end recreational fishing. Just look at red snappers. Recreational fisherman have such a small season because lawmakers and lobbyists not lack of fish.

Personally I release 90% of what I could legally keep. But if someone wants to harvest a legal fish I have no right to stop them.

Posted: 5/28/2017 9:45:28 AM EDT

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No charges against the PETA fucks? Great, now they'll think they were right and try it again on someone else. This is also why I have a boat and don't fish in touristy/public areas.

I'm a big inshore fisherman, I absolutely hate Rays and Channel Cats/Gafftops(except the big ones, they are delicious). They eat up my live bait and tackle.

Posted: 5/28/2017 9:54:02 AM EDT

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I've caught a few Good sized rays ,I let them go but I have no problem if someone wants to keep it to eat.

I hooked a big one when people were in the water swimming and they asked what was on the line. I told them it might be a shark and they all got out of the water.

Posted: 5/28/2017 10:00:34 AM EDT

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Do people eat those? How are they cooked and what are they like?

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yup.

Posted: 5/28/2017 10:02:11 AM EDT

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I've caught a few Good sized rays ,I let them go but I have no problem if someone wants to keep it to eat.

I hooked a big one when people were in the water swimming and they asked what was on the line. I told them it might be a shark and they all got out of the water.

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Lol, they feel like you have something really big until you feel the "suction cup" break then most come right to the surface. I would have said something similar to the swimmers, lol. "Feels and fights like that tiger shark I caught just down the beach a few hours ago".

Posted: 5/28/2017 10:03:35 AM EDT

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I hate catching those things.

Posted: 5/28/2017 10:03:43 AM EDT

[#31]

Yankees invade Florida and there you go.

Back in the old days a fisherman would threaten to use his filet knife on you for messing with his catch.

Posted: 5/28/2017 10:04:00 AM EDT

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IGFA all tackle record for a Roughtail Stingray is 405lbs caught in 1972 in Islamorada,Fla.

A ray (the one pictured) that size would taste like shit.

They should have released it so it could make more rays (but people are abjectly stupid when it comes to these things).

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The only opinion that counts is from the one that caught it.

Posted: 5/28/2017 10:09:21 AM EDT

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Have caught many that size. It's like try to reel up a sheet of plywood. I get it up to the boat and cut the line.

Flying across the bay doing 40 mph and a big one flies about head high reminds you to hook up the engine kill switch. Small ones all over the Tampa waters.

Posted: 5/28/2017 10:13:52 AM EDT

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Most news channel websites suck on mobile, too many ads and pop ups.

Posted: 5/28/2017 10:20:38 AM EDT

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Does it feel like you are reeling in a trashbag full of water? Then cut the line. The time I spend fighting that damn thing is time i could be going after better fish.

Posted: 5/28/2017 10:27:45 AM EDT

[#36]

F! Peta but I would not have killed the ray for no reason. Let it make babies.

Posted: 5/28/2017 10:30:26 AM EDT

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Thats not even large, when i lived in Puerto Rico; i used to see MONSTER Rays come flying out of the water. It was surreal, i'd say 12-14 ft across. They would break the surface, shoot up a few feet and land with a HUGE splash.

Posted: 5/28/2017 10:31:20 AM EDT

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I have caught a few while fishing along the gulf coast, even though I wasn't targeting them they put up a hell of a fight, nothing near that big by the way.

Posted: 5/28/2017 10:33:13 AM EDT

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Dicks out for Steve Irwin.

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He died like he lived, with animals in his heart

Posted: 5/28/2017 10:44:30 AM EDT

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#StingrayLivesMatter!

Lady goes crazy at Venice beach over stingray catch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERnQQnaVEPA

Lady goes crazy at Venice beach over stingray catch part 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB_S8b_q4Uk

Posted: 5/28/2017 10:50:09 AM EDT

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Wounder how much that would cost to have it mounted... My taxidermist charges something like 13 bucks per inch...

Posted: 5/28/2017 11:06:28 AM EDT

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They've completely destroyed the usefulness of the web.

Posted: 5/28/2017 11:10:14 AM EDT

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shitty restaurants would cut the wings into small round nuggets and sell / serve them as scallops.

Posted: 5/28/2017 11:10:47 AM EDT

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Ever had restaurant scallops? Good chance you've eaten it then.

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Do people eat those? How are they cooked and what are they like?

Ever had restaurant scallops? Good chance you've eaten it then.

+1

Posted: 5/28/2017 11:14:52 AM EDT

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Have caught many that size. It's like try to reel up a sheet of plywood. I get it up to the boat and cut the line.

Flying across the bay doing 40 mph and a big one flies about head high reminds you to hook up the engine kill switch. Small ones all over the Tampa waters.

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i was wading on a sand bar on treasure island and saw what looked like thousands of small dorsal fins coming towards me. i thought oh shit, i am gonna be eaten alive by baby sharks. it turned out to be a massive school of small rays. it took a couple minutes for all of them to swim around me. i felt like a stingray moses.

Posted: 5/28/2017 11:15:33 AM EDT

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Suprised to not see Steve Irwin still attached.

Posted: 5/28/2017 11:26:35 AM EDT

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IGFA all tackle record for a Roughtail Stingray is 405lbs caught in 1972 in Islamorada,Fla.

A ray (the one pictured) that size would taste like shit.

They should have released it so it could make more rays (but people are abjectly stupid when it comes to these things).

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Capt. Mark "the Shark" Quartiano says this one is 800lb.

Posted: 5/28/2017 11:28:31 AM EDT

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One could make a nice pair of boots from that hide, and have enough left over for a matching belt. Fuck the PETA assholes who pulled that shit, to bad the fisherman didn't deck a few of them.

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nice sword hilt covers