queensland Another stingray to celebrate END OF EXAMS!!

[viperon1982]

Wooohoo! Went to Bretts last nite with a mate to celebrate end of exams. And what a wonderful way to wet and christian my new toy, a shiny beautiful Daiwa Coastal Inshore baitcaster reel!

Fought a good 15mins as I was using reasonably light tackle this time round. Everytime I brought it near the pontoon it'd scream off. Best fight ever for me as I've never had a big fish on light tackle!

The bad thing about last night was that it was a pregnant mum.. *sigh* I didn't realise til while I was bleeding it, it shat the tiny little babies out. Darn cutest thing ever, lil white fellas, about 10. I still feel real awful though..

Unfortunately my stupid nokia phone camera doesn't work these days and no pics taken. Sorry guys!

Venue: Bretts Wharf

Date: 15th Nov 2007

Time: 2am

Rod: Shakespeare Custom Stik 6\" Medium BC 4-7kg

Reel: Daiwa Inshore Coastal BC

Main: PowerPro Red spectra braid (it's really worth the price!!)

Leader: Cajun 50lb red mono

Rig: Paternoster with 1/0 long shank baitholder, size 3 star sinker.

Bait: Live herring

[obone]

It gave birth on the jetty??? :dry: and it was the cutest thing ever? ahaha

How wide were the little ones?

Great fight by the sounds of it though! nice effort viperon!

Joel

[Angus]

Thats happened to me with a Shovel Noze Ray. I felt bad as well these mini versions of a full grown one spilling out everywhere...

Angus

[kevinchen19870316]

it happened to me once when i cleaned a fish and found it full of eggs. then i promised i would never take big fat fish anymore. except bream though

[viperon1982]

No I dont think it was meant to give birth yet. Premature I think. I think that's what a lotta animals do, and even humans, we all shit ourselves when we die. And in this mumma's case, her babies.. *sighs again*

They were real cute though, 2inches long.. I threw them back into the water, hoping they'd survive.

How do we tell if a stingray's pregnant? I realised when I caught it, the stingray was a little bloated near the bottom half. Possibly the sac that held the babies? I didn't think of it much til I saw the babies. Not sure if that's a surefire way of identifying a pregnant mum.

[kevinchen19870316]

generally just let anything fat and bloated go, and don;t take the \"lunkers\".

did the little ones swim away?

but u don't have to feel so sorry, there'r just too many rays in or estuary. what i killed was a yella. so ...

[reef_raider]

happened to us once with a stingray, little ones looked like good bait lol

[Mack_attack]

kevinchen19870316 wrote:

generally just let anything fat and bloated go, and don;t take the \"lunkers\".

great advice kevin:)

have some karma;)

[kevinchen19870316]

thanks mack-attack, but u will defi take my karma off if u knew how many fish i have killed b4 i realized that. lol

[Mack_attack]

ah well better late then never

[adri4n]

I guess its normal to feel bad when there are little ones involved, I guess your consolation is that there are still plenty of other rays around, can't really see them in danger of overfishing yet. :blush:

[James W]

viperon1982 wrote:

it shat the tiny little babies out. Darn cutest thing ever,

M

:laugh: :laugh: i have tears from laughing..no lie:laugh: ..i feel bad for the ray but..just your words viper...:laugh: :laugh: :laugh: lmfao!

[MichaelJ]

how big was the big stingray then width or weight or both lol

[viperon1982]

The lil fellas were jus 2 inches from head to tail. Simply adorable!

Hey whatnow, the mum was 65cm across and weighed 13kg. Hehe! Good size flaps for sambal stingray! hehe!