Friday past

Last Friday night while the weather was mild I decided to hit the same pier again in the chance of an early season Ray. First cast double coalie, distance rod brought in a doggie, more double coalies until I hooked into something that pulled back. While I was playing the fish, turned out to be a 7lb thornback ray, I noticed my line was getting shredded I had a broken ring on the rod. So good thing I packed a second rod, set it up and proceed to catch another doggie followed by a decent coalie of around a pound, the wee rod was getting hit by pin coalies, stripping baits and hooking the odd one. As the third hour came around the big rod gave a tremble, then a pull down, lift strike and something heavy pulls back. After a nice fight as the Ray kites in the tide a few times before giving up, nice and thick pulls the scale to 8lb. Out of the sling and back in the sea, rebait in the hope of a bigger one. No such luck another dog then a small Ray before the crabs came on the feed. That's was the first 4 hour of the flood, packed up the tide was full of weed and ripping the lead loose. Not a bad night and a few nice Ray to start my tally off, maybe this could be my year for a double figure ray.

Nice going MC, a couple of fine early rays. I'm getting fed up just "Scraping"!

Good result on the rays MC.

Thanks lads, being able to cast far really helped

Well done. What type of rig, hook sizes and bait were you using to target the rays?

Well done. What type of rig, hook sizes and bait were you using to target the rays?

Hiya lad, I was using 3/0 manta hook on a pulley rig, bait was double sandeel

Thank's for that. I know what to do now with those frozen sandeels I have.