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sparks19
07-30-2009, 05:01 PM
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STINGRAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :eek::yikes:

Man was it crazy. that thing fought me HARD and I was exhausted by the end. Now I have perfect little circle bruises to show for it on my stomach from the rod lol.

Here are pics of me fighting it and trying to bring it up
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And here is my stingray. We didn't bring it up into the boat or anything but it had about a 3-3.5 foot wing span. It was NOT little lol.

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JuniorxMyxLove
07-30-2009, 05:07 PM
ooh stingrays are so cool! i pet a few at seaworld this spring - they feel so funny! none were as big as that monster though, that's pretty impressive!

aTailOf2Kitties
07-30-2009, 05:50 PM
I love saltwater fishing! We have our own boat though. My boyfriend actually brought a 15 foot shark all the way to the boat a few years ago.

pomtzu
07-30-2009, 06:02 PM
That's cool. See - you built up all those muscles lugging Hannah around and now you've put them to good use fighting that ray.
I love deep sea fishing. I went out one time when my brother still lived in FL, and caught a barracuda!

CountryWolf07
07-30-2009, 06:29 PM
That's awesome though! Better than me catching a stick when I went fishing once... seriously.

RICHARD
07-30-2009, 06:39 PM
You should have brought it back and put it ito a cup of water for Hannah, You did get her an ELMO-what about REAL pets?:D

Husky_mom
07-30-2009, 06:54 PM
wow!!... nicely done...

IŽd love to go fishing one day.. just for the fun...ewww eating/touching fish... but IŽd love to have a lil wrestlemania over there.. hehe..

stingrays do feel funny.. like jello or something...lol

Grace
07-30-2009, 07:31 PM
That is so cool - as others have said.
Congratulations!!

sparks19
07-30-2009, 07:51 PM
Thank you

I'm really NOT disappointed about catching a sting ray lol it was a seriously cool experience and probably not one I will have again... I mean how often do you catch sting ray? I didn't even KNOW it was possible with a hook and bait lol

But I am quite sore now. My tummy is covered in little round bruises from the end of the rod in my gut lol.

Puckstop31
07-30-2009, 07:59 PM
She was a trooper... She fought the thing for like 20 minutes. Near the end, like the last 30 feet, she was WHOOPED. She said, "I can't do it"... I was like, "baby, you HAD A BABY! You can do this." And she did.

Way to go. :)


I lived in Jupiter, FL for my highschool and college years and was a very active diver.... Seen a lot of rays. That was the biggest stingray I ever saw. Seen bigger Mantas and Eagle's... But, Wow.

Lady's Human
07-30-2009, 08:18 PM
I took LOH deep sea fishing once, and she brought up, among other things, 2 dogfish at once............one of which was lassoed around the tail.

blue
07-30-2009, 09:37 PM
THats a hard fight. It seems every time I go halibut fishing I pull up a skate. 20 minutes can be just the start of pulling up a good size skate, but the same can be said for a barndoor halibut.

Good job, its to bad you couldnt keep it and eat it.

Medusa
07-31-2009, 07:37 AM
I caught a barracuda!

I caught one, too, but couldn't get rid of him for 3 years. ;)

Seriously, though, that is pretty neat. I've never done it but my mom had and she loved it.

lvpets2002
07-31-2009, 09:57 AM
:eek: WoW how neat.. Boy Howdy I will bet that it was alot of work..