Hannes picked up this beauty while fishing for Kobs on a beach called "Kanon Strand" between Gouritz and MosselBay. He consider his .40 line wrapped over a 15/30 Shimano with a .60 leader fed from a Blue-marlin T53 6oz Rod as light weight. Almost like the story we did on Kyle using a 30kg Sand Shark as bait.
I have respect for people enduring these type of fights. Hannes said this fight lasted over 100 minutes. Great fishing comes with great experience and great endurance. When his spool was almost spend he waded into chest deep surf not giving up and his stubbornness prevailed and with about 5 m left wrapped around the Shimano he got the Duckie to turn and seed.
Hannes fish measureda whopping 1820 mm and ORI calculates this wing span to 82 kg.
I have respect for people enduring these type of fights. Hannes said this fight lasted over 100 minutes. Great fishing comes with great experience and great endurance. When his spool was almost spend he waded into chest deep surf not giving up and his stubbornness prevailed and with about 5 m left wrapped around the Shimano he got the Duckie to turn and seed.
Hannes fish measureda whopping 1820 mm and ORI calculates this wing span to 82 kg.
Well done Hannes this is one of the bigger catches we have future d on Fishing Report SA.
The bull ray, Pteromylaeus bovinus, or duckbill ray is a large stingray of the eagle ray (Myliobatidae) family found around coasts of Europe and Africa.
Its full distribution is uncertain but it is known to be found in the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea,[2] the eastern Atlantic Ocean between Portugal and Guinea, the Atlantic from north of Saldanha Bay in western South Africa and round the rest of the South African coast into the Indian Ocean up to Maputo Bay in southern Mozambique, also Zanzibar and Kenya.[1][3]
It is named bull ray for the shape of its head and is sometimes called duckbill ray in South Africa[3] for its long, flat, round snout. Bull rays are often 180 cm and sometimes up to 250 cm in length from snout to tip of tail,[3] 180 cm in width and weighing up to 100 kg.[1] Females are larger and heavier than males.[1] It has a tail spine averaging 61 mm in length in females and 32 mm in males.[2]
It is found between the surf zone and depths of 65 m or more,[3] and also enters estuaries and lagoons. It frequents both the bottom and the surface and sometimes leaps from the water.[1]
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