Reel Easy - Not sure if you are referring to the barn door skate or not - but if so - they don't have a venomous barb. They do get larger than the clearnose skate though but an 80 pounder would be a record by far. Maybe what you guys were getting were cownose rays which get really big, although at 80 pounds you are still probably talking a record. They do have a venomous barb though. I've never eaten one - but I watched a good show about eating cownose rays on cnn.com

As for Ms. Garbagefish.com - Barbara Steele - the Director of the Ocean County Board of Tourism - called me very upset about the ms. garbage fish section. Apparently there were a lot of complaints that it was not a "family friendly" section. We sold the section to Hustler magazine and they are now publishing it. Just kidding. They did complain though so I took it down. Maybe we'll put it back up in the new year since it was fun ruining everyone's appetites each month.