seeing as most of my sessions end in disapointment i dont generally follow up my requests for info with a report, but actually got a new 1st today, nothing to take home but good fun for sure.

bad start to the day had to be in freo by 1130 to meet up with the GF's family, loaded the fishing gear and headed off barely on the road before the battery light comes on, shortly after ABS,  brake warning and SRS all follow along with the electric steering shutting off so quickly spun back and head home, loaded up the work ute and head off again. made it to freo all good and had lunch at the kailis bros, great food id recomend it to anyone who loves their seafood. went for a bit of a work and when i mentioned the spot recomended to me by shimka where we could possibly get some whiting, turns out everyone got over the idea and didnt bring rods and werent particularly interested... not going to let the effort go to waste i convince the GF to just go  ourselves (she opted to stay in the car and read).

got to north port beach bout 2, few ppl swimming along the stretch so head up to the rocks bout 50meters from the beach, put out a mulie and rigged up a smaller rod with prawns and worms. wind was ok, couldnt see any really formed gutters or holes so stuck the mulie out into deeper water just off the rocks a bit. not much happened thort i was getting bites but kept dropping them after a while i got one close and found it was little sandy colourd crabs grabbing my baits. no whiting around so burleyed up for herring. no good either brought in some baitfish but thats in. reloaded the big bait a few times last one just before 4 thinking thisll be the last one. flicked in another prawn when i see the big rod twitch and the drag started to pull slowly. i picked it up and struck and the reel started screaming i set the drag and it didnt even slow down, ran straight out to sea along the rock wall. i got worried as all it had to do was turn and cut me off on the rock so i fought it along the rock wall trying to gain some ground  and get the line clear of the rocks. it was starting to run out of steam but the wieght of it still made pulling it in a mission and it kept alot of pressure on the line. so many thorts as to what it was at the time, no headshakes just constant pressure, eventually got it to the rocks to see a ray, i was a little disapointed when i saw it to be honest but was still good fun to fight. not much i could do on the rocks to i backed the drag off and walked it back to the beach where a some kids had been watching me and we all took some photos and the kids dad helped me release it. while i wish it was something worth taking home it was still a first for me and on a 4000 solstice with 20lb braid and 20lb leader was the heaviest critter ive ever reeled in so im happy. wingspan was about 60cms.

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