I hear alot about stingrays being good to eat. What is the easiest way to clean one ir skin it etc.

I hear alot about stingrays being good to eat. What is the easiest way to clean one ir skin it etc.

They're real good to eat and not really hard to clean IMHO.

First, I wouldn't shoot one under 30-40 lbs at the very least, there isn't as much meat as you think so one smaller is a waste of time IMO. Some people might even think you shouldn't kill one that small, so just kill a large one. Take your knife and cut his wings off by running around the bottom of his eye sockets and along the hard place along his back to get all of the meat off. The best meat comes right behind the eyes, what would be sort or like jaws if his mouth were on the top of his head. Now, there's a layer of cartilage that separates two fillets on the stingray. Take a sharp knife and run along the cartilage that's dead in the middle of the fillets and keep filleting it out until you're removed the top half away from the cartilage. Next flip the meat over and do the same again, you'll have a thin strip of cartilage that's as big as the wing you just cut off.. Whenever the meat starts getting thin towards the end of the wings, just stop there, the meat gets tough anyways. After you've removed the cartilage you should have two very pretty fillets. Take your knife and remove the skin from the fillets just like you would a fish and you're good to go. Their skin is REALLY tough so it's easy to remove from the meat (hard to cut through with the knife).

Now, I like to just wash the meat down real good, chunk it up, batter it in cornmeal, and fry it. It tastes and smells a lot like scallops and is really a pretty meat. It's got a sweet smell/taste.

I'll get a pic of a stingray and post up where you should cut along if you need more info. It's pretty self-explanatory when you start doing it, just run along the hard spine and get all the meat you can!

Here ya go, just make sure your cut-line is straighter than mine because people will think you are on crack or drunk, either one. :p

You can feel the cartilage that runs through it by rubbing your hand against the cut edge of the fillet, just cut along this to remove the meat away from it.

Take a small cookie cutter and punch out circles and cook them for your Northern or landlocked friends and relatives that don't know any better,.....
You will be the man
by the way they are damn tasty
We smoked a wing one tim and the skin turned hard like a plate and you just slice it off,....good eats for such a nasty looking creature

I need to get the recipe, I had KICKASS stingray in some spicy Korean dish. At first I thought it was octopus or squid (the stuff was doused in this flamin red sauce) but I felt the cartilige and then it dawned on me. The stuff was mixed with sliced veggies, it rocked with rice. Just one of the perks of being married to a half Korean, her mom can cook some rockin food!!!

Thank you!

Whats the flavor and texture like??

Whats the flavor and texture like??

Very similar to a scallop.. The meat has a sort of sweet smell and taste to it, just like a scallop. The texture is also nearly identical to the scallop, that's why so many restaurants can pass off stingray meat as, "Deep Sea Scallops." The farther away from the spine you get, the tougher the meat gets.. The meat around the spine is very good and tender though.

I'd rather eat a stingray than a scallop just because it's easier to find/clean the stingray.. If you kill a big one you can get way more meat than you can with your whole days limit of scallops. Also, last time I checked there isn't a bag limit on the common stingray, I'll have to check again to make sure.

hmmm stingray's beginning to look a might tasty:beer:

hmmm stingray's beginning to look a might tasty:beer:

:toast: I agree!

They're a hell of a fight on a line shaft... They're hard to stone to say the least... My cousin shot a smaller one, he was only around 60 lbs and he had lots of fight in him, he had a shaft in his head and ran to the end of the line. I came over to stick another shaft in him and when he felt the pressure of the line on him he went ballistic and rammed me in the chest full on stirring up the silt on the bottom and all that fun stuff... Needless to say neither of us were hit with the spine and now we have a big gig we bring with us so we can handle them better.. Lesson learned! It was kinda scary getting hit by him and then not being able to see anything for a while, but neither of us were hurt.

I've never seen one stoned, so I have no idea where their brain happens to be to try to hit it.

I shot one point blank with all three bands on the back notch of a riffe C1 and the tip didnt even penetrate the skull...I was surprised to say the least lol...

Get em in the gills. Takes the fight out of em fast, plus starts the bleeding out process for you.

My dad's always talked about Stingray tasting delicious, I assumed he was messing with me. I'm not sure I'm too tempted to bend the shit out of a shaft to try it though. Ever try catching one by H & L... they're impossible, It's like trying to real in a 40 mile per hour rug. THey flatten out and you can' tmove them.

It might be fun to take a bent shaft that you don't care about anyway and take a ride from one.....but after you are done with your joy ride and ready to put him on the boat would a powerhead be legal? Is there any regulation at all on them? Can you cut the wings off at sea and leave the head and tail behind? I want to try this one day... I know the helldivers shoot these things all the time but that is in another state.

I see those (like the one pictured above) often on sandy bottoms, wouldn't a shaft over the eye ( i think the gill is on the underside, around the eye area) peg it to the bottom, and facilate the iki jime? or am I :crazy:

I wouldn't ever spear one but the poka-dotted ones (forget the name...eagle ray???) are those edible too?

You can't shoot spotted eagle ray or manta ray. You also dont have to land any unregulated species whole such as cuda, stingray, etc.

Since what happened to Steve Irwin I've decided to keep my distance.

I see those (like the one pictured above) often on sandy bottoms, wouldn't a shaft over the eye ( i think the gill is on the underside, around the eye area) peg it to the bottom, and facilate the iki jime? or am I :crazy:

I wouldn't ever spear one but the poka-dotted ones (forget the name...eagle ray???) are those edible too?

You see the bump in on Cherokee Spear's picture, where the rib looking things are? That's the back end of the gills. They move forward to just behind the eyes, so git em in there and they bleed themselves out pretty fast. A friend and I, who like stingray meat, have taken 2 bat rays out here in CA with this method.

I see those (like the one pictured above) often on sandy bottoms, wouldn't a shaft over the eye ( i think the gill is on the underside, around the eye area) peg it to the bottom, and facilate the iki jime? or am I :crazy:

I wouldn't ever spear one but the poka-dotted ones (forget the name...eagle ray???) are those edible too?

I'm sure most all the rays are edible but I'm pretty sure the only one you can spear is the regular stingray. When we shoot them we try to make it pin them to the ground but those things are so strong that it often times doesn't work out like we plan. The best method is to get a sturdy gig, even if it's only 6 feet long and hit them with it.. That way you can control where they go, instead of having them get pissy and come straight toward you. I wouldn't even try to freeshaft one, you'd be missing your shaft. My cousin is about 6' 6" 300 lbs and he had a 100 lb one take him for a good ride.

We always just cut their wings off and throw them on ice. There's no reason for them to be landed whole because their is no size limit on them. Just shoot them, throw them on the boat and wait until they stop going crazy, then you can just cut their wings off. That's the way we do it anyways, works pretty well.

Cant spear one in state waters...Have to be in federal waters to legally take one.

They chill out pretty quick if you give them a good bashing right behind the eyes on the bony part of the head,..my dad had 1/2 a Louisville slugger for that sole purpose,...and of course cat fish batting practice