Long Point Sunday 17/02/08
Was a bit blowy on Sunday evening so went down to Long Point for a bit of sheltered fishing. A few chopper tailor around still, although not as many as we have encountered previously, and nothing legal size either, with our biggest being 28cm.
I was amusing myself trying to hook pickers on the small rod (herring and trumpeter) while soaking a fillet of herring on the beach rod.
After a while I looked up to see the rod tip bouncing. It wasn't bent over that much, just bouncing a little. I started to reel it in and there didn't seem to be much of a fight, just the occasional tail flick and mostly dead weight.
As I got it close to shore I saw an eye reflecting the light from my LED headlight (just bought one the other day, how good are they?).
A shark? A ray?
A bit of both.
Shortly after, my mate accidentally jagged a small tailor, I have no idea how this came about.
Obviously it was a goner, we throw all undersize tailor back all the time, but because this one was not going to make it due to the holes in its guts, Brendan put it out on his big rod.
It was out ther for half an hour or so, and then as he was having something to eat the big rod bends over and the drag starts cranking. Any attempt to get line back was answered with a screaming run. We watched his full reel of 30lb line get fed into the ocean, and just as the spool started to show, the line went slack. So he lost a set of gangs to what I'm guessing was a big ray. We have landed rays before on the big rods loaded with 30lb, so this one must have been a monster.
danobigfish
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swann fishhh 08 nice work
swann fishhh 08
nice work bud even if ya dnt catch anythin good night going down there wewre exacly is long point
thnks
abandon
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Port Kennedy
Port Kennedy mate, just before Secret Harbour.
jimbo1
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Had some big
Had some big runs down that way myself on the heavy gear never to find out what it is! I think they are sharks as I played a fish one night and busted off on the 120lb leader completely frayed to peices.
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abandon
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Maybe
Yeah could have been a shark actually Jimbo. The line was severed, it wasn't just a knot come undone under strain, so definitely could have been something toothy. And people have been catching em lately too.
danobigfish
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ya
swann fishhh 08
y7a that is ma new years rezzo to catch a shark i have never cought 1 i wonna get a nice shark off a beachh
vans
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Yep those head lamp things
Yep those head lamp things are great i got one recently too. Makes you wonder how you got by without it!
abandon
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True
Yeah thats true Vans, they really free you up for cutting bait, baiting hooks, fixing tangles etc. A must have IMO.
If we can hit that bullseye, the rest of the dominoes will fall like a house of cards. Checkmate.