[dpcarpslayer]

what do you guys use for stingrays as far as retrievers and float setups

 

[mike]

We use Pro Retrievers with 200# planer board line without floats.

Most of them can be brought in without a float, especially if you have a partner to put a backup shot in them :tu:

 

[EBOutdoors]

Here's what I use.
It is Maryland Legendary Rob Davis's idea.
Take a bottle, and fill it with foam, and tie
on your string. Match the bottle cap size
with a rubber table foot cap, and your good
to go. If it is deep water however, the Ray can
sink that small of a float if you don't go after it right away:

This is how we eat them.

 

[finman]

Hey EBOutdoors....that's pretty slick. Wish I could come help eat them bad boys :applause:

 

[mike]

Here's what I use.
It is Maryland Legendary Rob Davis's idea.
Take a bottle, and fill it with foam, and tie
on your string. Match the bottle cap size
with a rubber table foot cap, and your good
to go. If it is deep water however, the Ray can
sink that small of a float if you don't go after it right away:

This is how we eat them.

Do you happen to have a recipe for those

 

[MallardSX2]

Gross.... I'd never eat one after smelling them last summer in that heat. That almost turned me against fish all together.

 

[EBOutdoors]

They arent bad. I'll never do the steaks again.
Southern Rays taste better than the cownose,
but honestly, when I fry em, I put them in the
fridge and eat them cold the next day.
They taste much better, I like em.

 

[BubbaBow4X4]

when we shoot'um we just use retrivers or spinners- no floats or anything.

 

[fishstick]

cownose you can shoot all day long without a float on a spinner or a retriever.....when you get into big southerns (over 100 pounds) you will probably want a float or just a retriever with the extended bottle for alot of line.

 

[VinnieG]

cownose you can shoot all day long without a float on a spinner or a retriever.....when you get into big southerns (over 100 pounds) you will probably want a float or just a retriever with the extended bottle for alot of line.

X2
I also use the muzzy stingray points, pass one through em and it aint pullin off unless you hit em on an edge.

 

[dpcarpslayer]

can you use regular carp points or should i get stingray points

 

[bigbend]

Just shot my first southerns this weekend and used Cajun long barbs with spinner. Worked fine but they were nowhere near 100 lbs. I could really see needing a float or retriever on the big boys.

 

[fishstick]

can you use regular carp points or should i get stingray points

carp points are fine.

 

[shootafish]

cownose you can shoot all day long without a float on a spinner or a retriever.....when you get into big southerns (over 100 pounds) you will probably want a float or just a retriever with the extended bottle for alot of line.

right on the money. I use the same setup for rays as I do for freshwater fish.

 

[westcolafishgetter]

ive only shot like 40-50lbers but my spinner held up just fine, just have some one ready for a back up an its game over...