Dolphins off backbay Matzohpizza again !

[pequa1]

Hopefully it was a ray and not a dolphin that took a snapper just before I needed to paddle home. Towed me two houses with the drag 'wizzing' off and on. Able to retrieve 100 yards of line but whatever it was finally popped off at my 20' mark on the line. Easily the biggest thing I have ever hooked off the yak with the setup I was using to liveline. (25lb fireline with Abu 5600 (or 6500?) 7' Cabelas Heavy Intraline rod.) Love the Intraline for its not having guides! Still a lot of annoying weed in the backbay. Winds nonexistent until 10am and then still light southerly. Until the big thing took one, not a hit on the snappers, which unfortunately are getting bigger by the day. Might have to go back to Gulp! although I really hate catching shorts, which never happens fishing snappers.

 

[Hunter704]

Hopefully it was a ray and not a dolphin that took a snapper just before I needed to paddle home. Towed me two houses with the drag 'wizzing' off and on. Able to retrieve 100 yards of line but whatever it was finally popped off at my 20' mark on the line. Easily the biggest thing I have ever hooked off the yak with the setup I was using to liveline. (25lb fireline with Abu 5600 (or 6500?) 7' Cabelas Heavy Intraline rod.) Love the Intraline for its not having guides! Still a lot of annoying weed in the backbay. Winds nonexistent until 10am and then still light southerly. Until the big thing took one, not a hit on the snappers, which unfortunately are getting bigger by the day. Might have to go back to Gulp! although I really hate catching shorts, which never happens fishing snappers.

The Ray we had on Saturday we were backing the boat down on him when he decided to change directions, took quite some time to get him to the boat, can only imagine being in the yak and hooking one glad your home safe

 

[pequa1]

The Ray we had on Saturday we were backing the boat down on him when he decided to change directions, took quite some time to get him to the boat, can only imagine being in the yak and hooking one glad your home safe

I was still on a high from seeing the dolphins again, lol. Impossible to keep my distance (150 feet) when they swim towards you ! Do you think there is any chance that I hooked a mammal ?
Whatever this was it was a speed demon, taking out the drag like I was going to get spooled ! Then after a hundred yards or so it let me get back by pumping the rod all but the last 30 feet when it freed itself somehow. I definitely think I need to keep a knife handier than I do, to cut the line...

 

[Chevy1]

I caught a ray off the beach this spring, I thought it was gonna have a heart attack trying to bring it in.
So how big of the snappers now I haven’t been out to try

 

[pequa1]

I caught a ray off the beach this spring, I thought it was gonna have a heart attack trying to bring it in.
So how big of the snappers now I haven’t been out to try

Many are over six seven inches

 

[Chevy1]

Many are over six seven inches

Not so good for bait getting to be great eating size

 

[Hunter704]

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I was still on a high from seeing the dolphins again, lol. Impossible to keep my distance (150 feet) when they swim towards you ! Do you think there is any chance that I hooked a mammal ?
Whatever this was it was a speed demon, taking out the drag like I was going to get spooled ! Then after a hundred yards or so it let me get back by pumping the rod all but the last 30 feet when it freed itself somehow. I definitely think I need to keep a knife handier than I do, to cut the line..

 

[Hunter704]

Anything is possible as to what you were hooked on to, but given was I experienced on Saturday with the Ray they can take off in a hurry. I’m pretty confident if we didn’t keep move the boat around he was either gonna spool the reel or bust it off

 

[Bassmaster]

Could It be a shark.

 

[pequa1]

Not so good for bait getting to be great eating size

Whoopee. A limit of three and a meal for one!

Could It be a shark.

? Only came close to surfacing a few times, big splashes but no jumping. But the speed !

 

[OVERBORED]

Could It be a shark.

Definitely! You think its flipper until its not..........

 

[pequa1]

Had just seen the dolphin pod minutes before. Sharks do not have the brains to do what marine mammals do. Although i doubt a dolphin would take a livelined snapper thirty feet from the yak.