The Day has reported that a 53-pound stingray was caught last Monday, September 2nd. While fishing for stripers from shore at Harkness Memorial State Park on Labor Day, Domingo Garcia found himself in the middle of a 30-minute fight, only to find out that his catch wasn’t a striper at all. After dragging the stingray to shore, Domingo’s son-in-law Jesus Tirado stuck a stick through his eyes, allowing them to bring the ray down the street to A.W. Marina, where it weighed in at 53 pounds and 92 inches from head to tip of the tail.
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hopefully they ate the thing after they killed it
Agree hope they ate it if they killed it. Caught a 50+pounder on the Outer Banks a few years back. took some pics and sent him on his way
Did they really have to stab a stick thru its eye jeeze…I’m mean I’m a fisherman who fishes almost everyday and I’m totally against stabbing or clubbing a fish over the head and so on, should that be considered animal cruelty?
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