Whoop Whoop - Finally got that LB Big Red!!!

[Brett]

:Boxing: what in the hell are you trying to do with the rays, that keeps breaking your rods :twisted:
Use your shock leader to lif them by hand, once they are close enough, should save some heart ache :lolf: I'm yet to break a rod on a ray, and you have seen how I have loaded up on them :oops:


Maybe next time, I might atually make the drive lol.

[Wolly Bugger]

Cheers boys. and yes Brett, sometimes I forget how funny you are! Tool.

Mixed emotions again last night! Managed a total of 1 snapper at 45cm, 5 mackeral (that i kept), a pike, a banjo, a port jackson, a baby brownish ray and a filthy big eagle ray which....... SNAPPED MY SERVO ROD!!! Haha - gonna have to learn to cut those buggers off - only a $40 dollar cheapo so no real stress there. Hopefully my graphite lovely gets warranty replacement though....

Bloke next to me nailed two Snaps - one about 40cm and the other comfortably pushing 60/65cm - was a gooooood fish. Few squid around also (not that I was fishing for em) - the ones I saw wee good size hoods - 25/30cm types all caught on bait..... Mackeral everywhere, apart from the 5 I kept, I probably threw about 30 back - just drifing bits of pilchard n squid on a longshank 1/0 - too easy really. Plenty of Couta caught and Pike also....

All in all, a decent nights fishing and, if anyone is in the area, Cowes Pier after dark, is a haven at the minute - esp in close.

Sigh!!

Last night cast out a bait using newly spooled braid, looked up at the rod tip and saw that it was broken, so reeled it all in, and replaced the tip today.

[Lost Pom]

Suppose it may be a bit different trying to fight them up a pier on low tide - height maybe makes it different from a beach? Either way - i take your point and I'll be sure to fix on a longer shock leader in future....

Bad luck Wolly - hurts doesn't it?!