Skates: Can you really eat these?

[pktaske]

For years I've heard (and most of you also I'm sure) that you can punch out 'scallops' from the wings. Can someone valiate or debunk this?

Last year I tried Sea Robin and I'll say this: It was better than any bluefish I've ever cooked (and I've cooked them every way imaginable).

[bassnblues]

I've heard talk of restraunts passing off skate wings as scallops.

Not sure I'd want to be seen with a cooler full of Skates and Sea  Robbins. 

[gottog]

I think the skate wings as scallops rumor is just bunk.

French resturants do serve skate wings.

I know a few guys that have been taking the wings and said they are much much better than fluke.  Saturday one guy took about 5 of them home...HAPPILY

[pktaske]

I found these:

http://www.roshani.co.uk/livingtoeat/index.php/2007/10/26/a-pair-of-skates/

Here's something from the New York Times from 1880 (scroll to the bottom first):
http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9C0DEEDA123FEE3ABC4152DFB467838B699FDE&oref=slogin

I think I'm keeping my next few skates:
http://justbraise.blogspot.com/2006/02/skate-au-buerre-noir-sweet-potato.html

http://www.washingtonian.com/articles/bestbites/302.html

[mgm]

I've had them in a restaurant and had one fileted by the mate on the JP II who knows how to prepare them for cooking.

I did mine classic francese and it was excellent.  Since the skate is similar to a shark it is important to clean and ice the meat to prevent uric acid from forming in the meat.

The skate meat takes on the flavor of the spices used to cook it.

[fishon42]

im sure its not bad, but id rather eat fish that i dont have to go through serious preperation before cooking it... just a fillet, wash down, fry up... very simple 

[Skolmann]

Selling for $2.99/pound at an upscale fish market in Bayonne

[Luna Sea 5]

i heard the same, but never tried it

[Pfishingruven]

Not sure I'd want to be seen with a cooler full of Skates and Sea  Robbins. 

  

[DarthBaiter]

Skates have very white and flaky meat. It is very good, if you know how to clean it. When my mom was fighting cancer, she always told me to bring home the skates and throw back the fluke. I would keep the fluke and the skates, take it all to my local fish market and have em clean the skate for me and a fluke or two was the payment.

[seanr8w]

The meat is fantastic, and they are not hard to clean once you get the hang of it. Delicious!!! Don't overcook though or it gets real chewy!

[pktaske]

good videos

[Pfishingruven]

Great info!!

[Diego Dangers.]

we keep the skates every time we get a decent sized one. my aunt loves the wings. never tried it myself.

[Reckless]

 Ok how big do they get? Not sure if it was a skate or some other type of ray. Caught one the last time out. Took me a good 20 minutes to get it to the boat. Had to be 36 inches wing tip to wing tip. Peeled off line as fast as any fish I ever caught!

[wimpy]

Growing up in a family based on fishing income you eat alot of things, Skates one. Granny used to pan crust it in bacon dripings or if we had stale bread use a wash and bread it. Remember when people use to kill them and throw them back , now their upscale cuisine.

[kezsr]

Ok how big do they get? Not sure if it was a skate or some other type of ray. Caught one the last time out. Took me a good 20 minutes to get it to the boat. Had to be 36 inches wing tip to wing tip. Peeled off line as fast as any fish I ever caught!

you probably had a cow nose ray,a few years back while fluking off the ammo pier,I caught two back to back,both times they almost spooled me.

[blynch]

I recently watched a group of asian fellows take home easily 25 or thirty skates and sea robins from the north jetty, squan inlet.

[ped579]