What gear were you using? whiting gear with 6lb or decent stuff with 2-3 hundred of 40-50lb?

Had my 10 ft with 30lb braid and my rod was in a holder on the rocks turned around to role a smoke and turned back and my line was slack as blowing on the rocks so i winded it in a bit then it just took off i stood up trying to tighten the drag had no chance the head shakes on it nearly pulled me in the water!
Was using yellow tail on a set off gangies

Well obviously could have only been a few different things... a whale.... an oversized blowie... or a foreign submarine.

Probably a shark but with the head shakes you never know mate

If anyone asks say it was a 50kg mulloway!

could of even been a big sambo mate

Sharky Shark MABY

But head shakes?

I fish there almost every weekend lol, that is your fishing the same spot 

From the sounds of things, the line being slack and as you wound in, it took off. I would place my money on an eagle ray. Almost all the big ones I get there do the same thing.

Not sure about the head shakes tho. I have heard of people getting samson fish there, never personally seen them caught tho. Possibly a shark, but I dont reckon you would have had any slack in the line to start with if it was one.

Other alternative, is it could have been a mulloway. but often they will slowly run with the bait before actually swallowing it, which doesnt explain the slack in the line.

My best bet is an eagle ray. they go pretty hard, and when hooked take off for the hills lol

The slack line is the fish picking the bait up and swimming toward the beach. Could have been anything. If the headshakes were sort of quick I rekon it was a mulla. Had mullas do this to me before.

Usually always get the head shakes from bigger size hammerheads

Sure thing Carnarvonite, the hammers sure do fight well. Not sure about a hammer in 2m of water and a pretty docile beach tho

eagle rays always get people thinking head shakes even myself sometimes stupid bloody  wings and a decent eagle ray would definitley spool somone easy but never know as you didnt see it if it was me i would definitely say it was a eagle ray because i would much rather lose one of them than a bloody good fish

Yeh i fish there a bit aswell and as john said eagle rays there all the timee. But its a mystery mate we will never knowww :)

should have landed it. ahah i remember i was in bunbury when i was like 6. got a new red bone for christmas and got spooled suckiest feeling out hahaha

Nothing worse than watching your line go out into the distance waiting for that nasty "ping" as your line all gone

Perfect for this time of year

the way i see it is the line went slack , which means something sucking or chewing on the bait. it could have been a ray but with the big headshakes i would say its possible to have been a big mulla or even a big pinkie. with a ray you would feel surges of power from it flapping its wings not the head shakes you described.

but when a ray is going the wings hit the line giving a head shake feel. i honestly dont beleive a mulloway or pink could spool you on 30lb . my call is ray  but could have been shark

Ive landed plenty of rays i no the difference between a ray fighting and some thing else the shakes nearly pulled me off the rocks its the first time ever fished at that spot mite be common for something??

for rays haha

Might I suggest that under the circumstances and with out witnesses, it could be anything that you want it to be......

After all we are fishermen.....

Just buy a bigger outfit that way you wont get spooled

but the truth is no matter what anyone says you will never no and you cant tell what it was from the head shakes or where it was caught or how the line went slack! so heck lets say it was a great white! been plenty around lately

30pound braid would have killed any eagle ray anyday of the week same goes for any shark under 2metres, unless you had 100metres of line, possibility it was that shark that was spotted the otherday haha my money is on a big ray 

Because it didnt snap as far as I am aware. Just spooled him. The drag matters more. A decent balanced outfit for 30lb should account for most rays, but I have seen a smoking reel before with locked up drag and still spooled by unknown deamons of the sea.

So I have no clue.