Skate is delicious.

[Jenn]

Originally Posted by 2na

Back before the seals ate them all I took big skate every chance I got. The way to skin them is to make a little cut under the skin, stand on it and pull the skin off with pliers, then filet the meat off of the cartilage. You had to be careful around the edges of the skate because there were tiny needle like bones, and if you got stuck it would bleed forever.

Oh, the good old days.....

I do remember before the seals you could fill a pick up load with them in a night if you wanted to....then came the seals and now you couldnt get one if you wanted too!

I did want to try one years ago and tried my hand at cutting off the wings and skinning them...not really knowing how to do it but figured how hard could it be, right? Got one wing cut off and started the attempt to skin it when I realized I had broken out with a nasty rash from finger tip to elbow from the raspy skin and then I canned the whole idea!!!!!