![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() With the help of bait shop owner Ray Angel (how appropriate) the fish was carried over to the Santa Barbara Shellfish Company to their certified scales. The fish was hooked and fought by James Elledge, and gaffed by Ron Maxell. The fish struck a live smelt bait and was landed after a fight lasting one hour and twenty minutes. It was caught at the Stearns Wharf in Santa Barbara on April 24, 2004. I’ve seen pictures of a 176-pound bat ray taken from the Newport Pier and a 175-pound bat ray that was caught at the Aliso Beach Pier in (I believe) 1990.īat ray taken at the Hermosa Beach Pier in the ’70s by Mola JoeĪnother fish, this one weighing 203 pounds and measuring 54 ½ inches wide was measured and weighed on a certified scale. However, the width sounds too wide leaving the weight also in doubt. I received a note on the Pier Fishing in California Message Board of a 246-pound fish with an 8.5-foot-wing span that was reputedly taken from the Newport Pier in the ’80s. of Fish and Game, the fish had a 5 1/2-foot-wingspan, a 3-inch-long stinger, and the width across the bat ray’s eyes was an even ten inches.Ī 240-pound bat ray was reported from Newport Bay in 1957. Records indicate it was 23 pounds over the prior record and, according to the Dept. Dew, a senior at Huntington Beach High School. It was caught at the Huntington Beach Pier on Jby Bradley A. Most bat rays caught from piers are less than fifty pounds but many in excess of a hundred pounds are caught every year.Īlthough we’ve had several reports over the years of bat rays weighing 200 pounds or more, the official state (and world) record remains a fish that weighed 181 pounds 0 ounces. S ize :Reported to reach nearly six feet across and over 200 pounds. The stinger on a bat ray can be very painful Their coloring is blackish or blackish brown above and white below. Identification: Bat rays have a very heavy raised head and a dorsal fin at the base of a long whiplike tail with a stinger just behind it. Called raya murciélago or tecolote in Mexico. Apparently called aetobatus californica at one time in California: CA Fish Bulletin #28.Īlternate Names : Stingray, stingaree, bat sting ray, sea ray, eagle ray, batfish, big black, sea bird, flapper, rat tailed stingray, NASCAR, mud marlin (my favorite), and monkey face ray. Species : Myliobatis californica (Gill, 1865) from the Greek words myl (a tooth or molar), io (an arrow or poison), batis (a skate or ray) and the Latin word Californica (referring to location). ![]()
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