How to safely unhook a stingray catch and release surf fishing

[josephmarchese]

If you have a pvc pipe or rod spike...use that and slide it over the tail. Learned that after I got barbed.

[hagu]

Easiest way to do it. Get rag and grab the tail right over the barb. Can't sting you anymore. Slide one hand under it and release it in the water. Looks like a pan, handle it like one.

[mariavanegas]

When he’s gonna throw the stingray back in I heard laughing💀💀💀

[nathanm]

Good call with the sand. Each step I was thinking “okay I could do that.” All the way up to the part where you flip him back over and let go of the tail. That part would get me nervous!

[Gerg]

I’m a avid fisherman from northeast ohio. Have never and will never catch a stingray. Still, I have a ton of anxiety about it happening one day….

[TwinkieGurlMeowMeow]

Doesn’t the fins sting you tho? I ask this is because my sissy brother got stung so bad when he accidentally touch its deadly fins while unhooking it.he cried like a dumb ass, getting stung by a baby stingray

[ابوصالح-طز]

Crazy guy
You are playing with fire 🔥

[tombiga]

Why not hold the tail and have your hand underneath?

[LudoCustodis]

I like to it The same only I will never let go of its barb at any point...Grab The barb with your pliers and then bring it over to the water with the pliers...works for the smaller ones

[briarfox]

Safer to hold the tail and barb with a firm grip. It can slip out from under your show easily.

[kingrider]

Great job man👍 I hate unhooking the big ones. They are a bitch to handle and get back back in the water.

[mg]

What this guy is doing is still very dangerous. My buddy thought he was an expert and one day he got stung. Landed him in the hospital and his arm in a sling for a month.

[Acolis]

this is not the way. cut the barb off and pick him up with his nose. every time i catch a sting ray first things first, that barb is coming off. no barb, no worries. they regrow them

[ethencuevas]

This was so terrible i hope no one listened to this😂