Have been plagued by Eagle Rays over the last couple of weeks, have caught 4 in total.

While a good test for my gear, shock leader strength etc, to date I have just been releasing them back.

 I have eaten Stingray before and it was pretty good, but not sure how to prepare and cook them, does anyone else eat these things? And if so how do you prepare them? Also whats the most humane way of killing them?

And lastly if not eadible can they be used for bait?

As above paul, whip the wings off and straight onto the BBQ, but yeah plenty of others out edible out there.

10ft of pure awesomness Paul

God stuff, if you ever wanna get out give me a bell bud

Yep, bout 6 min motor from Te Toro in about 3 - 5 metres only.  Yet to come back skunked on the sapper front, last 4 fishing trips Jeff and I picked up 14, 11 and 8, I did a solo and came back with 5 snaps and a gurnard so plenty out there, just one the wrong side of the channel to surfcast.

Cut the wings off and fillet down either side of the grissel and smoke them with a bit of brown sugar and salt. Eat it straight out of the smoker on some bread

yep they are edible but as others have said there are plenty other better species out there..if you ever see scallops for sale without a roe these are 90% of the time stingray meat as it has a similar texture. not sure about eagles but i know long and short tail stingrays have a toxin in the liver which is pretty poisonous, and thats why orcas never eat the main body.

Thanks for the help everyone.

RJ51 wrote: Cut the wings off and fillet down either side of the grissel and smoke them with a bit of brown sugar and salt. Eat it straight out of the smoker on some bread

 

How do you go about handling stingies on the rocks...apart from very carefully!