Ed White wrote:



Nice day of fishing anyway, I can't wait to get started up again, another
2-3 weeks and I'll be out.
I'm near the edge of the ocean, and by late spring around here we will have
cow nosed rays along the coast, and thay act kinda like your big fish
did.....sorta. I've seen them take a bait and just sit there, and a 40Lb ray
can sit there pretty hard, you'll think your snagged, till enough yanking
will get the sucker to move, and when he does, line will just disappear from
the spool, slowly at first, but trying to slow it is futile, then the sucker
gets second gear, and this is where people lose a lot of gear, smoked drag
washers, broken rods, what have you. They can be landed, eventually, if they
are not to large, but if they're big enough, all you can do is watch the
reel get spooled, or cut the line.
God, is it April yet?

I have been there and done that with rays, (sting rays down here) they
can bury in the sand when they get tired,, you just hold the pressure on
them untill they are ready to play again, I fought a 50 pounder on 14
pound test from the beach,, each time I would work him in to about 25
yds, he would bury, after he rested, he would smoke out about 150 yds of
line, I would work him back to about 25 yds, then he would bury again,,
just to repeat the game again,, after an hour and a half of this, I
handed my rod to my son, grabbed the gaft, and waded out that 25 yds and
gaffed him, man he cooked up into a good mess, and fed a lot of people. :-)


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