Just my luck - South Beach
Decided to go down to south beach groin tonight for a bit of a fish at 8ish. Was looking very calm, so I didnt expect to catch much. there was another guy from ireland fishing there as well. I brought 2 rods with me just on the push bike (1big and 1little). I cast out with some prawn on my light outfit, a few bites here and there. Caught a small herring after about 10 minutes, and was perfect size for 2 snelled circles on some wire trace on my saragossa 18000. cast it out and let it go. In the mean time I continued to fish with the small rod, catching a nice sized flathead and some more herring. The irish guy caught a king george about 40cm which was great. about 9.30 i noticed my big rod fling forward, so i raced over to it. but nothing was there, so I reeled in and noticed a clean bite. I put the hook back in and cast back out. This time I was holding the rod. Within in a few minutes I could feel some serious bites. So i let it play with the bait, and run about 50m before setting the hook. From there on in, the fish almost spooled me (300m of 30lb braid and 50lb mono leader and backing). After about 40 minutes i was gaining some ground, when the irish guy who was helping me, caught a glimpse of it before going on another run. Being on the rock wall, I didnt fancy my chances of landing the fish without a gaff or net. So I slowly made my way to the beach and fished from there on in. about an hour later it was on the shore. and it was a giant eagle ray. (about 150lb). So I got the other guy to get some snaps, before releasing it.
Besides the fact it was an eagle ray, when I got home, I noticed I didnt have my phone on me. So now Im without a phone and importantly pictures!!
Luckily I managed to get the guys name, hopefully he has it, or someone finds it. I just fucking hope aha
Just my luck :/
Will post pictures when or if i get my phone back lol
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flangies
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Date Joined: 11/05/08
That sucks man big time. Was
That sucks man big time. Was it a good phone?
John_M
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Date Joined: 17/01/10
it was fairly new, but just
it was fairly new, but just having no means of contact now is annoying me :/ aha
Bungel
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Date Joined: 12/10/08
its geeky. but well worth
its geeky. but well worth doing these days. Backup your phone contents, espcially your contacts to your computer.
I have killed many phones and its been a real saviour to have them backed up on the comp. Even it means to manually put them all back in or more often than not to just transfer them to the new phone.
Nice effort on the eagle ray. and good to get a feed for the evening.
John_M
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Date Joined: 17/01/10
I didn't really intend on
I didn't really intend on catching anything, especially the ray. So I released everything. I didn't know they got eagle rays at south beach, obviously they do tho aha
Faulkner Family
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Date Joined: 11/03/08
nice capture . would have
nice capture . would have been fun geting one that size in. pity about the phone tho. hope it shows up
RUSS and SANDY. A family that fishes together stays together
Markie
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was this the big
was this the big marina rock wall near cy o? or little one near the apartments?
John_M
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Date Joined: 17/01/10
one before the little one
one before the little one aha, duro road groyne
TonyT
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Date Joined: 09/07/10
good effort, shocker about
good effort, shocker about the phone tho fella.