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That is one big butterfly ray! Quite an accomplishment considering the size. Those things can suck to the bottom and really wear you out.
I took my nephew out for a few hours tonight. He caught spot and after dark as many hake as you could handle! Some times two at a time. He had one hit that bent his rod over and then broke the line. I told him it was probably a big drum and he got aggravated.  I had just loosened the drag on his reel and he tightened it back up while reeling in line. Then I explained to him that it was probably a Sandtiger shark swimming through his line. He felt a little better. All in all a good night even though no pullage for me. Not sure whats up with the sharks again this summer but I hope it makes a turn for the better soon.
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We also saw a few small sharks just beyond the break during the day Friday....and I bumped something soft but solid when showing my kids how to (excuse for me to go out there ;) booggie board ......creeped me out pretty good, infact the lessons ended after feeling that.  ........Good stuff with the nephew 
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Hey All,
Went out Friday night to Saturday noonish... (till the flies drove me off, that, and i fished for 12 hours straight with no sleep overnight) Caught small shark and snapper blue. nothing big, but nothing hit till about an hour before sunrise. For those who might recognize I am the new guy, and I hadn't caught a blue before, so my 13 incher was enough to make me happy. (Ecstatic actually) I did have some spot of trouble though; I pulled in the blue, and was taking the hook out when i remember a brown blur going by. I didn't pay much attention as i was so stoked over my catch. I was thinking i have to get this fish off and get my line back out there as hopefully there was a school. Then i heard my line scream, and nearly **** my pants. Turns out that brown blur was a huge brown sea gull that flew through one of my lines and was tangled up 100 ft down the beach. No hooks in him, just the line. I was not pleased! I was going to do the t-shirt over his head and untangle him thing, but I didn't want to traumatize him any more. I cut my line and he took off. Not an experience I want to repeat. Last edited by Sam; 07-08-2007 at 12:34 PM..
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Good job on the first bluefish. Yeah, the old seagull has got me out of my chair a few times... As a matter of fact, I've had a pelican get caught up in my line. Let me tell you something, I'd rather release a sandbar shark any day.
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I've gotten a few seagulls in my lines and they've been suprisingly cooperative as I untangle them - almost like they've done this before (probably have).
I have to tell you though - you haven't LIVED until you've caught a DEAD seagull
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It was a good day!!
Man what a beautiful day on the beach. We had to wait for about an hour and a half to get on, but it was worth the wait!!
Managed to pull in another ray about the same size as Jim's first one after Jim and Amanda departed for the day. ( Of course, the digital camera was at home) The family thoroughly enjoyed the day as well. My boys were liking those big old dogs for sure. Thanks for the hospitality Jim! Now I want one of those Avet reels, but I think I need to get the left hand retreive model. See you at the summer fling !!
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Saturday
Flies were bad enough to fish in pants for most of the day, wind shifted to S and cleared them up a little bit but for the most part it was a mental battle. Hooked up on the first cast of the morning around 5:30 with a big ol butterfly ray, I'll post pics later I have none on my camera. Later we hooked a garage door stingray on my 15 yr old glass shakespeare rod and nearly busted it. 4 guys taking turns for a half hour and I finally called T.O.D. and broke it off. Had another one on the same rod around 2:00 and broke it off after about 20 minutes of messing with it and losing the majority of the spool. My brother in law had a nice shark on around 3:00 and snapped the line trying to horse him up on the beach...rookie mistake, one I will soon not let him forget. It was about 5ft, sandbar or blacktip IMO. We had steady action it seemed most of the day between long fights with rays etc. All day saturday we saw finning sharks, right outside the shore break, some bigguns too. There was one around 6ft right in the shorebreak in a rip, finning and feeding no more then 10yds in the wash. He took off when we tried to feed him some bait. We had large rays breeching all day long, some even breaking water in the shorebreak. It was a very wild day full of really cool sights. I never could figure out what they were feeding on in that close. Come to find out there was a very deep cut in the near shore bar, nearly 3ft deep but only 10ft wide and there were millions of sandfleas on the edges, my only guess is that the sharks and rays were feeding that rip and moving along the shorebreak. All hits were on very short casts, less then 50 yards. Sunday NOTHING, untouched bait until around 10:30 when we beached a small butterfly, about 3ft across, the first was about 5ft. Still great fun on spinning gear. I did have 2 rods with fleas in that rip all morning but no takers. I had one really hard 1 second run this morning, I think my line just got hit by a porpoise fin or something like that...just enough to losen the line. Everything was on casted baits nothing on the yakked stuff. Even pulled in a half bunker along with 10 inches of bloodline...intact after 2 hours, I could have taken it right back out. Good weekend on the beach, can't wait to get back. Some hooked up shots of the new guys tangling with the rays and some sunrise stuff from this morning. I'll post some sea creature stuff this week. AFAW Rock was great as was my "casting rig for biters"
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I have a question or maybe 2
 On my last couple of adventures, I have been using a rig similar to the hatteras rig, with my main line tied to a barrel swivel, then a leader which runs thru the fish finder rig, then tied to another swivel, and then a circle hook via another piece of leader. Is this the right set up?? I noticed Jim's rig yesterday, and it does not have the upper barrel, which on my rig the fish finder will hit when a critter is taking line. I am thinking I may be losing "pick ups" when a fish starts taking line,but drops it before it actually takes enough of the bait/hook in it's mouth, because of that upper swivel. I also fish with spinning rods without baitrunners, so my thinking on this is I am not doing it right.In my way of thinking on this, on the rig like Jim is using on the baitcaster with the bait clicker, the fish are picking up the bait and have that critical extra couple of seconds to get into their mouths before there is any tension pulling the bait out. Therefore the circle hook has "time" to get positioned so it will actually hook up instead of just pull out. The function of the baitcaster also allows line to be taken out with less tension than a backed off drag on my spinning reels. Help me out!
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Lose the extra swivel Grossy IMO, it nulifies the benefit of the FF. If you aren't using a shock leader then keep that setup so you have something to grab when landing larger fish. With a shocker you really don't need it, your shock leader is usually plenty heavy.
All that said, everything works some of the time, nothing works all the time.
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