What I recall is 20-30 minute fights on 20lb test.  You could see it 100+ yards out, and it did not seem to care at all I had it on a line.  I had to follow it down the beach a bit, as it generally had me 1/2 spooled out.

Pain in the ass to bring to the boat if they are any size, the bigger ones we just cut loose.   The smaller ones are the best shark bait on the planet.

I know you're joking, but the fact that people think stingrays are dangerous cracks me up...
Play stupid games....

Seriously though for those that don't know. stingrays literally can't attack with their stingers. They don't have a barb on the end of their tail that they can attack with or whip at you.
They do have one on top of their tail at the base of it, where it meets their body. it's totally defensive, they're method of defense is to sink to the bottom, and flex a muscle at the base of the stinger to make it lift up off the tail slightly. Anything pursuing them might impale themselves on it, if they're that stupid.
It's like tackling someone who has a knife strapped on their back and then complaining that they stabbed you.  

Depending on the species and size, they can whip that thing around enough to just about reach the tip of their "nose"
I've got the scar to prove it.
Sure, they might not stab you purposefully, but people do end up getting stabbed, sometimes taking the stinger with them, and they can cut the piss out of you with the barbed edges and it will burn like fire from the venom.

Yep, if you dont see it and run your leg into you're going to get stabbed, just like any sharp object. and since they're brittle and barbed they tend to break off inside the wound.
Or in Steve Irwins case, if you try to ride a fucking stingray your chest is going to be right there near the stabby part...
PSA: don:t ride stingrays! You might die.

I got stung in my right heel in August of 1992 while windsurfing in Pamlico Sound. I have some extracted barb pieces in a vial to prove it. High speed and little flesh above the bone meant ithe barb badly shattered in there but the wound was very shallow. The doc got about half of the pieces(the large ones) out, the rest remained, though they probably were absorbed long ago.

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The fucking rays come in the bay and eat up all of the shellfish, baby crabs, and water filtering oysters.

I have caught more big rays off bridges than I can count.

Usually feels like you snagged something heavy on the bottom.