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Sometimes sharks and rays abort when theyre stressed. sad and neat all at the same time -- Jordan Neely

 

we get pretty cool sharks too -- Jordan Neely

 

and some big rays. this guy is a medium large one. sometimes we catch 5-10 of ones this size and a few hundred smaller, more pissed off ones. -- Jordan Neely

 

which picture?

 

I see a buch of asshole pinfish, some pig fish, and a big lizardfish in the one with thee ray

 

pinfish, lizardfish, pigfish, little cigar minnow, and some croaker

 

we take data on everything that we bring on board, but the things we mainly get our primary data from are croaker, whiting( southern kingfish), weakfish, bluefish, cobia, and Spanish and king mackerels. also any turtle we land we get all measurements, weigh, tag with flipper tags and a PIT tag and release.

 

haha yup! just hope he doesn't stab you!

 

the big guys can have barbs over 8" long.

Yessir. otherwise we would be required to have a turtle excluder and we wouldn't be able to physically catch the big guys

we see it a good bit in the summer. it seems to be a heat stress related issue. ive never heard anyone who could taste a difference though. once the heads are gone, theyre all the same!

 

haha yep!

 

ive been meaning to save the ones we get but I can never remember as we're trying to not get impaled. that was not my picture BTW. but it gives you an idea of what they can be!

 

we try and get most everything (except our priority species and things not easily identifiable) back alive. a lot of times their barbs break off in the other rays or get lodged and broken in the table and gunwales. and on the BIG guys I try and remove them before they get too friskey and catch someone off-guard and injure them. that's our most likely injury out there.

 

I believe so. some of them have up to three of those bad boys waving around.