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Blank tonight for me, mate had a nice 59lb butterfly ray

Lost some monstrous rays last night, and found out it's best not to hook 2 at once while your mate is already playing a 150lber....it didn't end well
I had to put one rod in the tripod with a tight drag and grip with knees while playing the 2nd....just hoping mate could get his in and release it , then grab his other rod which I was kneeling on.

However the ray just stripped 150y before the drag got so tight the line finally went off like a gunshot !...we did get the other 2 in though luckily.

I did in the end manage a 2nd 200lb fish at 233lb a new PB [ATTACH=full]41737[/ATTACH]

<blockquote data-quote="Si-fly" data-source="post: 237773" data-attributes="member: 553">Blank tonight for me, mate had a nice 59lb butterfly ray <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😍" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f60d.png" title="Smiling face with heart-eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :heart_eyes:" data-shortname=":heart_eyes:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />Lost some monstrous rays last night, and found out it&#039;s best not to hook 2 at once while your mate is already playing a 150lber....it didn&#039;t end well <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😢" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f622.png" title="Crying face&nbsp; &nbsp; :cry:" data-shortname=":cry:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />I had to put one rod in the tripod with a tight drag and grip with knees while playing the 2nd....just hoping mate could get his in and release it , then grab his other rod which I was kneeling on.However the ray just stripped 150y before the drag got so tight the line finally went off like a gunshot !...we did get the other 2 in though luckily.I did in the end manage a 2nd 200lb fish at 233lb a new PB <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" alt="😃" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f603.png" title="Grinning face with big eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :smiley:" data-shortname=":smiley:" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" />[ATTACH=full]41737[/ATTACH]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Si-fly, post: 237773, member: 553"] Blank tonight for me, mate had a nice 59lb butterfly ray 😍 Lost some monstrous rays last night, and found out it's best not to hook 2 at once while your mate is already playing a 150lber....it didn't end well 😢 I had to put one rod in the tripod with a tight drag and grip with knees while playing the 2nd....just hoping mate could get his in and release it , then grab his other rod which I was kneeling on. However the ray just stripped 150y before the drag got so tight the line finally went off like a gunshot !...we did get the other 2 in though luckily. I did in the end manage a 2nd 200lb fish at 233lb a new PB 😃[ATTACH type="full"]41737[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]

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