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Description: SimonG hooked into what could only have been a Ray of somekind, maybe a Stingray. We were in 55m of water, but the strike occured at around 25m. Felt like the bottom, but was definately mid water....rod was giving a small downwards tap but it wouldn't budge. After 15 mins hook pulled free...... Picture Stats: Views: 2508 Filesize: 84.32kB Height: 768 Width: 1024 Posted by: skip at June 29, 2009, 14:35:54 CET Image Linking Codes
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| MartinB Posts:665 
| July 02, 2009, 20:18:30 CET Hard lines guys! that place is a very good spot  And speaking from personal experience if that Penn Spinfisher couldn't pull it up (i own one and they are total winches!) and seeing the bend on that rod of course,it must have been HUGE ray! |
| Granitu Posts:1511 
| July 01, 2009, 22:27:09 CET markcam, sargi can be hard to bite. some 3 yeras ago i encountered a similar instance at zonqor, i caught some 8 sargi in 2 hrs and maybe lost around 40 because of poor technique, and the rod fisherman, with ideal conditions( risacca, fluoro lines, ckal as bait) didn't even managed a sargu at times fish can play jokes |
| Guest | June 30, 2009, 21:32:59 CET surely could be a ray !!!! There are quite an ammount of them right now roaming around our coasts. Last night we found 2 huge ones on our lines which we set free as they are not good to eat and also very dangerous |
| markcam Posts:106 
| June 30, 2009, 12:32:18 CET Everyone knows that catches like the one I posted are rare occurances. As granitu well pointed out, out of 10 fish you see maybe you'll catch one. For example last Saturday I saw much more sargi, a huge barracuda, another leccia and some nice Aj's which I didnt manage to land. Obviously I wasn't complaining as I was already over the moon, and if I would liked to stay and catch more fish I could have cause I was out of the water by 1 p.m. Regarding the catch with andreas, I'm sure that if there were rod fisherman they would have had a successful day as the place was infested with sargi. The good thing about spearfishing is that it is easier to be selective. With rods you get moray eels, smaller sargi(which you can release) etc. which I think can be annoying. In my opinion every location has its niches and these niches are only learnt through experience. |
| Granitu Posts:1511
| June 30, 2009, 11:48:03 CET marcam managed that catch cause he is a good spearfisherman and probably didn't find sppoky fish, but fish coming from the deep which is less sensitive to us, speros. each time he caught a fish the other's probably escaped, for 1 fish caught, 10 other's learnt a lesson |
| LapsiBoy Posts:883 
| June 30, 2009, 10:34:59 CET Still granitu you have a point but not a reason because if all the fisherman that fish via rods etc catch the fish that a spearfisherman catch (ex: the catch that markcam has just showed us) I think people would stop working lol I go a lot frequently to those places sometimes your luck and catch something but mostly nada, or some crap like eels etc. |
| Granitu Posts:1511
| June 30, 2009, 09:08:13 CET no spearo chases a fish lapsi, it is harder to catch a fish spearfishing than fishing when spearfishing one is playing away dear. if the fish wants, they come in range, if not, see you next time, or if they come, the spearo does an error |
| LapsiBoy Posts:883
| June 30, 2009, 00:04:03 CET Skip there is fish but people think because its a very wild area if you go you catch for sure but its not the case. Spearo it a different story because they catch the fish not the fish catch them |
| skip Posts:3967 
| June 29, 2009, 21:11:03 CET Hmm the spearos that were there just visible in the pic would def disagree with you!!!! |
| LapsiBoy Posts:883
| June 29, 2009, 19:10:07 CET Believe Granitu its a nice place with no fish. Xbajt inkala snanar hemm! |
| skip Posts:3967
| June 29, 2009, 17:14:43 CET Def wasn't a plastic bag, doesn't pull down on the rod like a fish....... Could have been a net or a rope but then if it was either I very much doubt with the hook we were using that it would have pulled out. There were Ray's around hence we thought it was probably one of those. |
| Moonwalker Posts:585 
| June 29, 2009, 16:58:03 CET Or a net (parit)  |
| busumark Posts:1114 
| June 29, 2009, 16:31:55 CET maybe you caught a big plastic bag  |
| Granitu Posts:1511
| June 29, 2009, 16:25:59 CET jigging... nice place you were fishing  |
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