need some help I want to get some rays for bait looking for anybody that has any or anybody that can help me and tell me if there is a certain place you guys got to catch them I know you can get them at your usual ramps and docks.But just wondering if there was a place all you guys went . also what would be the best bait for them thanks
u can find rays everywere i got to the skyway to catch cownose and you cannot catch a cownose on any bait i use a snatch hook with at least 50 lb line to bring them in good luck hope this helps
Just go to your local grass flats and you should have good luck finding them.. And yes cownose rays will eat bait anything dead will work for any type of ray.
cool thanks for all the help well try to go catch some will keep you guys posted if I catch a few and anyone needs any .
Cow nose rays are very plentiful on the west coast and one day there was a huge school at lakeworth pier and southern rays are everywhere.
The only problem with southern rays is: if you keep taking them from the place u fish, the sharks will just disappear because that is their main natural diet, i have been told this by an old timer that has had the experience of stripping a place clean of rays and not catching any sharks thereafter for a very long time.
Cow nose rays i can say from experience come in schools by the thousands, and if u can not snag at least 1 out of a school i feel bad for u lol
I must admit, a ray is a ray and any ray is excellent bait when the bite is on, ive seen monsters hooked on ray and even hooked into a big boy myself on a nice slab of ray.
Good luck finding them, i snag them mainly with bucktails but weighted trebles work better.
Just an average fisherman.
how do you find these schools? ive been snagging mullet for ages but ive never had any success finding and snagging rays
I waded the Skyway flats a few days ago, the rays were all over me. 
Big cownose and Big "mudrays". Were driving me nuts because I didnt have a trebel with me 
we were at skyway yesterday but the one kid who dives wouldnt get in the water to get rays.
Why not "Monoxide"? Ill prolly be spearfishing some fri morn if The weather holds out. 
Its a blast! LOL! Prolly be hitting the Gandy flats if we dont take out the boat and do some real spearfishing inside the bay. Then when "the man in the gray suit" shows up we'll take out the rods and drop in the chum bag and start the frenzy All depending on weather of course. 
he didnt want to get in because no one had any sleep for like 36 hours
he didnt want to get in because no one had any sleep for like 36 hours
Are you shawn?
if not the same thing happend with us
yes it is shawn
True, even freediving on that much lack of sleep is a lil nuts. Im not known for my sanity though LOL! 
when you guys use snatch hooks do you attach them to a rod or do you use a rope?
Rod. I use my Stradic 6000 with 65lb braid and a 8ft custom fast action rod. Perfect for me. Gigging while wading the grassflats is easier lately. Northshore beach by the St.Pete Pier is crawling with mudrays right now, saw a few cownose lately but not many.