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Post by osprey on May 31, 2007 19:18:32 GMT -5
I don't normally pay much attention to the bowfishing but there are plenty of fish over here too. Was kayaking the Marshyhope saturday morning and gar were surfacing all over the place. On the Choptank tonight with spinners and found one place loaded with cownose rays! Just if anybody is interested... I think we're going back Saturday morning with some heavy rods, cut bait and BIG circle hooks for the rays - the boy I take fishing wants to hook up to one of those soooooo bad.  May even keep one and make an event out of trying to cook the wings somehow. I actually don't have them on my life list of things eaten. ;D |
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Post by Hardcorehunter on May 31, 2007 20:31:59 GMT -5
Thanks for the update. I heard some people have hooked up with rays already around here too. Gets good around fathers day for them. Hard fighting s.o.b.'s.
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Post by THE DEER HUNTER on Jun 1, 2007 8:23:27 GMT -5
From what I've heard they are pretty hard to prepare. There are a lot of tendons (I think that's what they are) lined up in layers within the wings. From what I understand though, it's important to cut the wings right off & get them iced down.
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Post by davep on Jun 1, 2007 16:44:42 GMT -5
Slice the wings off and ICE them.
NOW!
Sort of 2 layers:Skin,meat, cartlidge-like stuff, meat,skin.
Been 20 years+ since I last had any.
Must not of been that good!
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Post by osprey on Jun 2, 2007 17:27:30 GMT -5
We went back today to fish for the rays, and of course caught all small perch and a few catfish, not a wing in sight.  I guess next time I'll have to go for perch so the rays will be there again. |
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Post by osprey on Jun 8, 2007 16:06:41 GMT -5
Hey Syoung, how'd it go on the Marshyhope?  ? I swung by the ramp around 9am while at work but you'd already gone out, still saw water puddles under your trailer. |
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Post by Syoung on Jun 9, 2007 9:24:19 GMT -5
Hey Syoung, how'd it go on the Marshyhope? ? I swung by the ramp around 9am while at work but you'd already gone out, still saw water puddles under your trailer. We got 5. I have a bad sinus infection and did not really shoot much. I would not have gone if I did not take the kid I took. Feels like every tooth in my mouth has a cavity. did not start till Wednesday night. On anti-bio tics now so I just have to let them work. Did not really see many on the surface. I think due to the wind. That old quarry had a steady supply of gar, but all little males. We did not really see any big ones. Some really nice carp there though. I'm going to give it a try in a few weeks again. The gar are not spawning yet! Thanks for the help. That is a really nice ramp to launch from. |
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Post by davep on Jun 9, 2007 11:10:19 GMT -5
Is that the ramp at Federalsburg?
I COULD tell a funny story about me,a 26' boat,the bridge just above the ramp,and a incoming tide.
"What do you mean,we won't fit? We fit on the way up!"
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Post by osprey on Jun 9, 2007 11:16:52 GMT -5
It was an okay ramp before, but it's really nice since they rebuilt it last year.
Your boat woulda fit, just wait 6 hours Dave!!!! But that's a LOT of boat for that river. I've had similar situations in canoes and kayaks with small bridges, many times had to lay down flat in them and pull my way under the timbers. You just hope there aren't any snakes resting on the framing!
It was very low tide the day we saw all the gar on the surface, don't know if that matters. There wasn't any water in the spatter dock edges that day, all mud...
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Post by davep on Jun 10, 2007 7:45:02 GMT -5
LOL
We wound up taking the light bar/grab rail off the console and SQUEEZING under before the tide made up any more!
Still beats waiting on the tide to come IN,and get you off the mud flat!
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I guess next time I'll have to go for perch so the rays will be there again.
? I swung by the ramp around 9am while at work but you'd already gone out, still saw water puddles under your trailer.
