Thank you surfers
Been a member for a while now n never posted a report so figured this was a good night to start.
Being the last day before I go back for yet another year of uni, i thought id make the most of it and head out for a solo fish. Scouted out my local beaches and trigg point was looking good, but when i went back to fish at 7:30 the gutter i planned on fishing was still full of surfies. Waited around for 15 mins before deciding to head to my regular sharking spot. Having picked up some some of the nicest mulies I've ever seen from Oceanside the week before i thought id let the sharks be for a while and try for some tailor. Within ten seconds of the first mulie hitting the water I had a solid bite, I missed that one and brought in half a mulie. second cast hooked up and brought in a nice 43cm tailor. This went on for about half an hour landing four decent size tailor as well as a few small snook which went back, before the tailor dissapeared. The biggest tailor went 48cm and a some that were lost felt a lot heavier, but i guess the ones that get away are always bigger 
So having caught a feed of tailor and knowing how many sharks come by that area i swapped rods and rigged up a tailor head to slide out deep on a non return clip while i cleaned up tomorrows dinner. After 20 mins the fish were cleaned and I was ready to head home, with the tailor head un-touched. Just as I was bringing in the first head ready to pack up my old man came down, which meant another fish head out as bait and another beer, now with my old man as a drinking partner.
With a smaller head out this time i thought my chances were good, sure enough about 15 mins later my rod doubles over and my reel screames!! I run over and grab the rob, striking straight away and setting the hook.... Feeling the solid pull and watching line dissapear from my reel i knew i was on. It took about 5 seconds to realise it was a ray.... and maybe another 15 to realise it as one of the resident "unstopables". While I have enjoyed catching large rays recently and with an on going challengs between a few of the regulars at that spot to land the biggest ray I was still dissapointed it wasnt a shark. I was even more dissapointed when the thing took about 300m of line then dropped behind the reef and busted me off 
All in all a nice night fishing, very different to my usual 6 hour stints with big baits out waiting for a beast of a shark to swim by. Lookin forward to the day one of the guys with gear heavier than mine lands one of these "unstopable" rays though. have had little problem with 45kg rays so excited to see how big these guys are. It'll probably have about 6 of my rigs in its mouth lol...
Hope the photos and everything come out ok
Cheers,
Adam
HuggyB
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I can't
see any pics good sir! But sounds like a good session none the less.....
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Faulkner Family
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sounds like you had some fun
sounds like you had some fun with the tailor. too bad about the ray but you never know it may happen one day
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cuthbad
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its gone from no pics to
its gone from no pics to massively over sized ones.... ill keep trying
Colin Hay
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Sounds like an interesting evening Cuthad
There are plenty of sharks around at the moment, so you should have some more interesting fishing evenings ahead.
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cuthbad
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cheers colin
yea we picked up some nice sharks in the same spot a couple of weeks before, just for added challenge ill see if i can put a pic on here now :-)
btw thanks for fixing my pics and sorry for creating more work
Colin Hay
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No probs cuthbad
That spot you were fishing is one of my favourite Perth spots. Have you caught any salmon there?We found a few resident salmon there late last year.
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cuthbad
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no I havent come across any.
no I havent come across any. i normally have a rod out for herring to get some live bait but ill keep trying with mulies for a while. was much more interesting
Reefmonkey
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Nice work
Hey man nice work! good to see ya still gettin out there amongst it. hope ya still got ya priorities right and ya not workin too much.
P.s Dave Jackson here :)
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cuthbad
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Dave!!
How are ya mate? I havn't been working at all man, figured as exmouth got all screwed up id spent my time off fishing. back to reality as of today though.... gotta catch up n wet a line some time!