monster stingray.

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#1 Post by **wayne riley** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 5:44 pm

jus read of a 23 stone stingray been caught in the maeklong river in thailand.
it measured 14ft long from nose 2 tip of its deadly barb, and 6ft wide. it took him 45mins 2 control

dats a fish of a lifetime.

jus wondering if u caught a stingray wat is ur biggest or have u ever heard of a ray been caught dis size

#2 Post by **Tanglerat** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 5:57 pm

I've caught them in Namibia, 5 or 6 of them, and I've caught one in Thailand - at sea, not on the Mekong.

Biggest would have been about 15 lbs, I suppose.

Just stand well back and let your guide/skipper handle it when you land it......!

#3 Post by **anthony2carr** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 6:04 pm

Caught one in Gran Canaria 70kgs.

#4 Post by MC » Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:30 pm

wee bro landed a 120lb eagle ray off the beach in Saudi Arabia

#5 Post by **screeming reels** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 10:38 pm

Hi
Merlin, had this leopard ray that tipped the scales at 170lbs of brunei in 2005.
lovely ray,with a fantastic pattern, tail was nearly 3 meters long! it was a very thick ray indeed and after an hours battle was boated and returned
regards
screeming

#6 Post by **Ronald** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 11:15 pm

The biggest I've heard of was a 220lb(going by the size chart) skate caught by a mate on the Antrim coast , landed it on his own as well

luckily he's a big guy and was able to haul it over the stern of his 18 foot boat to measure ,then he had the job of getting it back over the side of the boat as the other boats anchored near-by looked on . he breaks 50-80lb class boat rods for a hobby

#7 Post by **wayne riley** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:09 pm

well dis fella dat caught dis monster reckons ders even bigger rays dan dis along dis river

if i caught 1 id prod sh*t myself, think id jus cut da line and send him on his way

#8 Post by **gearoid mc s.** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 12:23 pm

for this lads sake you'd certainly hope that ray isnt alive..

#9 Post by **boycie89** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 1:28 pm

I have heard of the ray in that river to grow in excess of 800lbs !!!

#10 Post by **immunecfg** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 3:21 pm

OMFG thats some size, i dunno what those guys are doing to it lol

esp the guy underneath it

#11 Post by **fishermannum1** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:27 pm

immunecfg wrote:OMFG thats some size, i dunno what those guys are doing to it lol esp the guy underneath it

possibly taken part in one of them Japanese tv game show's

wonder what he has to do next to win the money

Sat Jun 28, 2008 9:09 pm

Had a stinger off fenit peir that was well over 100lb. Got her in to the edge of the rocks . We had a massive one meter wide landing net but she was far too big to go into it. Myself seanibo and another lad could not lift it out of the water . Ended up cutting her loose.

Fish was caught with half a sandeel on a size 2 kamasan tied to 20lb amnesia on a three hook flapper.

While in Lanzarote seanibo and myself were mullet fishing on one of the piers when three stingers of easily 400 lb weight came through our swim one after the other.

Gave us some s**t attack. Nearly fell off the pier.

#13 Post by **nialler** » Tue Aug 05, 2008 10:10 am

never caught any in ireland, caught one in Tahuna Beach, Nelson ,New Zealand, weighed 23lbs and was caught on a 3 hook flapper with squid baits,in a inlet channel, seriously strong fish, evil lookin devils aswell