Only the wings close to the body,
Outer edges get a little sheetrocky tasting but the thicker meat is good
Tomales bay ca skates
We used to sharpen a 6” piece of conduit on one end and use a hammer to punch out circles of stingray wings
Makes scallops
Dip in egg n milk and breadcrumbs
Fry them in butter
Yummy poor mans scallops!
Tm4est wrote:
I fish them up in Raritan and Sandy Hook bay. Starting to pick up now.
I also fish the Hybrid stripers on Lake Hopatcong. I live 1/2 mile from the lake.
Both are a whole lot of fun...
What kinda bait do you use or do you troll?
I fish from the bank all around the Sacramento delta.
I use shad, mud suckers, bull heads, grass shrimp, mackerel and anchovies.
Bull heads in the SF bay mud suckers up river.
18-20 pounds is my best so far last year.
Haven’t been out this year. Too busy at work.
After the holidays Im committing to fish the spring run every day off!!
Grass shrimp is good bait for sturgeon as well.
GlennMc928 wrote:
Calif Delta stripers Is as close I can come.
Nothing Finer than a Striper Fight caught on a mud sucker in Rio Vista ca.!
I wish I had a picture of the black crappie I caught on a green beetle spinner back in 1983
I know it was s long time ago
I’m an old guy of 58 now but
I had 18 pounds of fish on a stringer we weighed at the Bridgehead bait shop at the foot of the Antioch bridge in Oakley ca.
After we fried them up an ate them we got out the ca state record book.
We figured we ate a state record fish.
The heaviest fish at that time was 2.2 kilos.
9 fish at 18 pounds
One of the lovelies was over the state record.
Pan fried and flaky white meat gobbled up!
Hahaha!
There’s a slough the runs under the bridge
It dead ends about a hundred yards to the east
Stripers get caught in there at high tide
You can catchem without a sinker on anchovies open bail
Let em run till they swallow it
The set the hook in their throat
Mostly keepers in spring
Shakers in the fall
My kids grew up on them
When I was a kid we used to jug them
Hang a leader off a 5 gal pail with hooks full of grass shrimp
Next day go looking for the pails
30 lb 40 stripers in the morning
Those days are gone now
Good memories
Too many people taking the shakers now
Fish don’t have enough time to grow big people take the babies
Shamefull
My grand kids think a shaker is a whopper!
I can’t show them how it was
Makes me sad
No more big fish
I would have ate him!
Dipped his fillets in milk and the some flour and
Fried him up in butter with bits of rosemary and fresh garlic!
A squirt of lemon and a sprinkle of pepper
He’s but a good memory and my muscles get stronger!
I love little fish!