Tag Team Raggie!

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FLUKE

Sealiner
After being blown out with a week of east where the sea was rendered almost unfishable due to a easterly wind & swell churning up tons of weed Saturday was forecast to swing west.

Boepens & I knew that this would spell good fishing::S but both of us were doing a bit of begging^^.. to make a way to at least get in a few hours on Saturday night. I arrived at Palm Springs and on my way to the point I could already see 2 rods, one belonging to Boepens apon arrival my suspisions were confirmed when I discovered the 2nd rod belonged to Dave Batista.

I set about rigging a Friggate and battled the strong side current to get my bait out. Rods set, now we wait:fishn

First up was Boepens who set the hooks on what was a smallish shark but the hooks pulled before we could ID it, then I had a bump & drop then Dave Batista was picked up and he missed on the double J's in a small chokka.

Next up I get a pull on a Friggate head and set the hooks on a decent fish. After a short fight I had a 183cm male Raggie on the beach.

With fresh baits out it was Boepens up again with a solid pull which then seemed to swim into my line, I quickly handed my throwbait rod to Dave Batista and grabbed my slide rod to clear it from Boeps line. I could not feel anything but shortly after Boeps mainline parted:fswim

I reeled in & checked my line for damage while Dave Batista packed up & left. I re-slid the head of a 4,5kg Kob and before stopping I was picked up by a decent fish but the 18/0 never set, I left the bait and within a minute I had a repeat. I reeled in & both Boep  & I re-set our baits and that was about the time that all logic ceased to exist:fbash:fbash:fbash

But before we get to that here's my 183cm Male Raggie

 
 

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FLUKE

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So 2 fresh baits on their way out and my old mullet throwbait still in the water and Boepens goes tight with a BUS fish and he's been on for 10min at a guess. We are starting to plan gapping it to the beach when my Kob head starts to get eaten and again the hook doesn't set:fbash:fbash it gets picked up again and this time it feels like it's set and I can feel this is also a 150kg+ fish and it's boxing hard. Double up with only two of us there and nervous laughs of joy echo about our dilemma when my forgotten throwbait rod get pulled flat:fbash What now!! Then the hooks on my fish pull:fswim that Kob head is just too big for the 18/0. I go back to my throwbait rod and there is a fish on but it has now swum into my slide line that is still in.

Boep is still on with his shark and I set about pulling on my throwbait fish to clear the lines when the line parts, I get back to my slide rod to reel in so I can help Boep land his beast when his hooks pull, damn I could feel his pain.

In the mean time my slide rod is coming in heavy and I see my bait come clear of the water and a sharks surface 20mtr behind itvvbafvv My throwbait mainline that parted is still tangled in the slide line so I land a 151cm Spotted gulley.

 
 

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FLUKE

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Despite the lost fish adrenalin is pumping and our spirits are high::S::S::S

Let's get baits in!!!!! so we do and while I'm sliding yet another big bait in a strong current on 0,50:fbash my line chaffes off at the tip. Damn!!!! now I've got 2 reels short of line with no terminal tackle on them and I've just added 80mtr line to the water and the bites are gail!!! stpime2stpime2stpime2

I start respooling my Tor 30 when Boep gets a strange bite and sets the hooks. It feels like another decent fish and he's had it on for a while when he shouts that he thinks it's in my line that broke off. Things still don't feel right and when he see's a slide bait and sinker on his line he shouts for help to untangle it. I get there and then I see that is his bait he just slid but there is no shark in sightvvbafvvvvbafvv

So what is the shark on the end of "his" line attached tovvbafvvvvbafvv

It's attached to my line that just parted at the tip. He can't reel any further so I grab the line and he says what are you going to do hand line it in???? YES comes my reply fueled by the foolishness of adrenalin. After about 5 min and nearly loosing a finger tip, common sense seems to take over from adrenalin at which point Boep says we need to tie it onto a rod, ::S::SBrilliant boep, go grab my Assasin, it has nothing on the end.

Tied on I resume the fight with a rod, but now how far out is it??? Long story short the shark is now closer than we thought and we can't get it to the beach, the swell is up and the only place to land it is dangerous!! I try and try and try but no way will it go left and I don't want to let the knot out so in the end Boep and I take a few hits from some big waves, we get absolutely drenched but we have a very fat 202cm Female Raggie on the rocks::S::S::S::S don't ever tell me Raggie fishing is boring, you just don't know how to do it right :fbash:fbash.

We get her tagged and measured, and battle to get a photo as the waves are pounding us. We sacrafise a decent photo and set about the difficult and risky task of getting her back in the water.

Here is the Raggie that caused the greatest "Raggie rush" I've ever experienced. Even Boepens was on a high despite him experiencing some of the worst luck I've seen him have.

 
 

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boepens

Sealiner
Hahahaha :fbash:fbash jinne altie chaos is best described here.

I think this tag team raggie story could become a new sport
Not for the frail tho.

Even tho I didn't land anything decent bar that beaut barbel I had a ball bud.

Next time we put 4rods out. :fbash:fbash:fbash:fbash
 
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FLUKE

Sealiner
boepens wrote:
Hahahaha :fbash:fbash jinne altie chaos is best described here.

I think this tag team raggie story could become a new sport
Not for the frail tho.

Even tho I didn't land anything decent bar that beaut barbel I had a ball bud.

Next time we put 4rods out. :fbash:fbash:fbash:fbash
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Sure not for the faint hearted!! When 160kg of angry female raggie gets going in a backwash and you've got nothing between 0,50 & wet hands you had better be awake:fbash

That 202cm was as much yours as mine bud, a Video camera would have been priceless:wfish


 
 
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Def-e-nition

Sealiner
Holy Mackeral suffering Ceasars MasetJopps .

 In all My years , i aint seen Or heard , of anything Like This .

Fun was had by all .

 trust boeps to be connected in some way and shape to all of This !!

 

Either it shows you guys had too Many rods In the Water , or fished too close to Mekaar virriekekpraat , or both , Or you were somme just Lus to make place for One Mother Of a verslag .

 

 goeie hemel , this reads like something Out of Ripley's believe it Or not !     series !

 

Still shaking My head - Can't type anymore ...
 
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Bevid

Sealiner
Lekka Alton. Mooi fish bud. You made any arangements for the bash yet???????

 

Uhm fatboy wtf bud. You seem to be in a slump lately hey. You better get your act together soon. No "chuck norris" crap with us that weekend hey.
 
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boepens

Sealiner
Aag bevvie not to worry bud. I'm gonna peak come may june. Best u take note bru. :fbash:fbash:fbash

Just having fun now hey. Its only raggies afterall.
Woulda been nice to see how big the last two goens I've lost were but ill get there.

:wfish:wfish:wfish.
 
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FLUKE

Sealiner
@Def, the problem is that Boepens has been telling me that raggies are boring to catch. So what I did was call a few of my raggies from Fish point up to pensioners alley(Leonards Bay) and then set about showing him that Raggies aren't boring!! He just doesn't do it right!!!

Either that or deep down we wanted to be like Duifie for a day.................

@Klipvis, I can't imagine how it can still be called fun when you stand shoulder to shoulder in a crowd and the bites are wild.
I have experienced far more bites in a session than we got on Saturday but what are the odds of a shark getting hooked on a slide bait that is on a line no longer attached to a reel and then gets wrapped around the slide of another line in the water and then, only being 0,50, still doesn't part while Boepens is pulling as if it were properly hooked and we are talking about a 202cm shark, not a little pup.

Crazy but very entertaining.
 
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boepens

Sealiner
Hey don't comtry compare those fishpoint papsakke to leonards
Boxers altie. :fbash:fbash:fbash

U also welcome to join the bash. Entrance fee is 10 kollie baits

::S::S::S::S::S::S
 
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Wade 001

Sealiner
all around people were losing fish that saturday, at league we were losing raggy pups like you wont believe, practiculy every angler lost a raggy or 2, birah produced a few raggy pups during the day, i luckily managed to fowl hook a female raggy of 18kg and that fished took off like a bullet!!! i was expecting a big raggy,spotted gulley or diamond but it after my raggy biting 2 oaks off i landed it with 15min of league left and decided its not worth getting another bait in the water, i lost one raggy pup in the morning not even knowing i hooked it because the weed was hecticly bad, but we didnt dare move as the fish were there as Collin Skeepers was clearly demstrating and he even lost a raggy. But hamburg produced huge raggies and plenty of them, one oak got over 400 points fromo 3 raggies, but oaks also lost alot of raggies. looks like the fish might be going to school on how to shake a hook and well done on the fish caught , iv always imagened landing a fish the way you did.
 
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Dave Batista

Sealiner
Just finished reading this now, hektic stuff, well done boeps and Fluke , I'll be back at Palms on Thursday in search of some bait.
 
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FLUKE

Sealiner
Dave Batista wrote:
Just finished reading this now, hektic stuff, well done boeps and Fluke , I'll be back at Palms on Thursday in search of some bait.
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:fbash:fbash:fbash:fbash 100kg plus Raggies are wild and you want to fish for baitvvbafvvvvbafvvvvbafvvvvbafvv
 
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