South East Ray

[Had1]

Decided to head back to where I had a good session 2 weeks ago on similar tides.
Conditions were breezy and the water was a little more coloured than I would of liked for snoothounds which were the target .
Peeler on one rod and squid close in on the other one .
Weed was horrendous ,I don't think the long rod on crab was presented at all after a few minutes , which I hate being stood there watching it pull downtide and imagining the bait in a tangled ball of weed !!!

The close rod on squid was much less of an issue and seemed to be presented for a good 15 minutes before the build up..
Fishing 20 yards out onto the slope not even in the gutter I had a great pull down and slack bite ... bass here we go I thought . Wasn't though as after a couple seconds I knew it was a ray, to be honest stingray did enter my mind as usually need a decsnt cast to reach the rays here .
5 or 6lbs male came up the beach
.. long story short got weeded out and that turned out to be the only fish .

Nice evening and some cracking birds about in summer outfits before dark ??

 

[Stoker]

Well done for persevering and getting the ray.
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[Shirleycodlin]

Well done on the ray, in spite of the weed.

 

[Bass&Chips]

Top twitching and a bonus raymond.

 

[Trampster]

Well done on the Raymondo H1 L2! Great report and nice photo. ????

That weed is a pain in the arse. 5 of us were out last Autumn and got weeded out. It was getting close to pack up & go home time, and sat on my seatbox, I saw the rod tip going down, and thought "Ah, fish at last". Before I could grab the Rod, the lot went over - Tripod & both rods. Bleddy great clump of weed that was a nightmare to haul in & untangle.

 

[bananas]

Well done battling the weed to win your prize