big eagle ray
Submitted by antsey on Sat, 2011-02-19 17:45
hey guys went to woodmans point boat ramp today caught this eagle ray witch gave a great fight first run went for over 300m then came in about 50 metres then took off again before i turned its head got it about 50 metres off the jetty then it goesfor another 50metre run , then comes 5 metres of jetty and ran again for 20metres before landing it fight wass about 15minutes also lost something huge that spooled my saltist 30 on full lock up
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Faulkner Family
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fair effort there. 15
fair effort there. 15 minutes of pain. was it released
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antsey
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yes realeased
yes realeased
DieHard
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Nie effort matejust a tip
Nie effort mate
just a tip next time, get your shoe on the tail and the rod between you and the ray ;)
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wopjrb
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the barb on those ones
the barb is right at the base of the tail and they bend it round and into ya stood on the back of one and it drove its spine 2 inches thru my foot hurts like buggary.
antsey
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yerr usually do that but the
yerr usually do that but the ray had no barb on its tail so there was no ponit in doing it on this ray
DhuBoi
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i hate rays , but great catch
i hate rays , but great catch an the saltists are a wikid reel .
living is fishing
roberta
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Geezes my
arms would have killed me. Bad enough winding one up on a alvey winch, Old fart caught a big one and he was winding it up towed us backward in the boat, he though he had a great dhuie on, yes also released to swim another day.
Watched a heap of these rays down in Leeman, near the beach from the Caravan Park, looked like they were getting ready to mate, as there was heaps of them and you could see them swimming in and their flaps out of the water, very interesting to watch, of course I forgot my camera, nature is lovely to watch sometimes.
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cuthbad
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nice work mate, bit of fun
nice work mate, bit of fun there! whats the rod?
antsey
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its my mates rod shimano
its my mates rod shimano beastmaster 15kg