Ray Day !!!

After a night of heavy rain, we woke up at 8:00 o'clock then made our way up to Chesil Bait 'n' Tackle to pick up some blast frozen squid. from there we headed back down to the boat and steamed out to the hood which from there we caught a few very nice mackerel.

Only another 10 minutes of steaming we had reached our chosen destination. After we had anchored up we made our rigs which consisted on the main line with a snap-sweivel(only through the eye) attached to a swivel which lead to a 70lb shock leader with a few beads and a size 4o hooks. 

Within he first 5 minutes we had hooked into 3 different species which were Garnered, Smooth-hound and dog fish. Then, which dad normally does, he pulled in a nice 12lb thornback ray, followed by another smoothie, taking the lead.

But, as soon as he weight was back on the bottom i had a very curious nibble upon my line. After a hard 10 minute battle i had made my fish come to the surface. It was a 15lb undulated Ray! 

As the day went on in the south-easterly wind, the fish slowly start to go with only 2 more rays and a smoothie being caught, then only going into Doggers. It fished better when the tide was running. 

Have a fantastic week everybody tight lines

James.