north mole, spooled, what could it be?
Submitted by Markie on Sat, 2010-08-28 19:14
Hey guys just went to north mole try catch some fresh bait fish but f#%^ allll. I brought my lil overhead down n put half a blue mackeral on two snelled hooks wit running sinker. About 6:30 got a very very fasttttt run. hooked it up and it didnt stop until i was all spooled out. I have about 300 plus metres of 25 pound mono and went within no timee. Any ideas what it could have been?
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Feral
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eagle ray :) those buggers
eagle ray :)
those buggers can really move and they dont like slowing down much.
Cade
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could be a sambo there are a
could be a sambo there are a couple of resident sambos that frequent the north mole wreck
kempy
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i rekon ray
i rekon ray
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DieHard
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Did it have headshakes? if
Did it have headshakes?
if not deffinately a large ray in the 50kg+ zone
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Markie
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shook a tiny bit but not
shook a tiny bit but not alot. All i kno is it was not goin to stoppp.. Iv caught few eagle rays only smaller ones but bigger rays and usually when i get my first run itll stop n start a lil bit. then maybe take off for a big run etc but this did not stop for one second.
Markie
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And it was heading straight
And it was heading straight outttt. I was fishin about 200 metres furthur than the entry gate
biggerfish
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Apparently there is a great
Apparently there is a great white around the north mole
Play hard fish harder
Markie
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Yeh i heard about that great
Yeh i heard about that great white. It ate some seal around there some fisherman seen it. Dont kno how my mum knew/ got told about it but yer thats what she told me when she came around haha
Dicey
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more then likely a eagle
more then likely a eagle ray, how high was your drag setting and what setup were you using?
Markie
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My scales were broken so i
My scales were broken so i just guessed but it was pretty tight. Brang this shitty old penn seaboy cos i thort prob will get fuckal knowin me, mainly wanted to catch bait fish. I just bought a torium 30 and was thinkin about takin it. regret that i didnt now cos i got a shitload more line on that one. If an eagle ray mustve been biggish eh
Dicey
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haha fair enough, i dont use
haha fair enough, i dont use scales myself i tie the main line to something solid or a car tow ball and play around with the settings that way.
Markie
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tru well i havent had scalez
tru well i havent had scalez for while but yehh i kno when it feels right i guess. Scalez would be helpful but
Dicey
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yup thats how i do it,
yup thats how i do it, usually can tell how loaded it is though just by how bent the rod is, thats why its important to get to know your gear, its a shame they pumping something at northmole atm the water is all dirty up now for miles.
cuthbad
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Yea i reckon ray, if not
Yea i reckon ray, if not eagle then a big black or something. have seen them smash 400m of 50lb on 7kg drag without even slowing down....
Markie
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Yeh i didnt want to fish the
Yeh i didnt want to fish the end because of that bloody big thing movin all the sand. Might go kwinana way try my luck. cant wait to get a boat wont be long now.
Bungel
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could be a scuba diver...
could be a scuba diver... seen them around there!
Markie
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lol very fkn fast one thats
lol very fkn fast one thats for sure ;).
desmond
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eagle ray
Eagle Ray.
All it has to do is get in the rip and it will go out like a drift anchor.
Got my biggest one at Kwinana near the depot, couldn't get it round the jetty, which was probably a good thing as no one round to help me.
Couldn't believe how big that thing was when i saw it. Caught on 12" of octopus tentacle. Same gear, 150lbs trace, double snelled 9/0 mustad big reds.
Same here, a couple of shakes and it went out like a boat. I decided to risk locking the drag (ppro is expensive) and it came back inch at a time.
Fishbait
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Ray!
A Ray for sure! But I do like the idea of the scuba driver...