Richards Bay local angler Danton vs The Big One #3

As the fight stretched on things was unraveling and technology lost ground as beast flexed its mussel. All was thrown into the battle as beast stood its ground. The monster entered the last round and went for broke ...

We will never know if this is a sign of defeat or relief but in the last effort to turn the huge sting ray the Bimini knot came undone or un raveled and as suddenly as it began the fight was over.

Authors Note

Since the author struggled with equipment past it's sell by date we did not get a photo the one time the Big brown back of the ray surfaced and showed its splashing power as it struggled back into the safety of the deep. We had one glance of the monster and guessing the sizes is all we are left to do ... my closest estimation of the size is that the point of nose to wing tip was between 660 and 750 mm. This could have been a fish of between 35 and 40kg or even bigger. It is always dangerous to guess a fish size but using ORI to calculate the size of a Ray or a Shark it is possible to know that this one was on the better side of 30kg.

Well done Danton and hope the next one producess better pictures ...

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Richards Bay local angler Danton vs The Big One #2

The tale continues ...

As I said in the previous entry ...



Danton stood his ground working well together with the gaff man and struggling the monster fish close inshore. Although it was close the fish turned around and striped the 40lb nylon from the new reel ... smoothly and constantly.

Between the fish and confident angler the struggle was still on and Danton was persistent not to give in. He stretched the limits of his equipment past it's capabilities. Every time when it was evident that something has got to give Danton got things under control and the struggle was on.

Then skill and hard work got the upper hand of the struggle and man was triumphant over beast.

(to be cont ...)

Richards Bay local angler Danton vs The Big One

Richards Bay T Jetty can be very quite and some day's it produces almost no fish ... but every once in a while things get hectic and for a moment the world comes to a stand still. Saturday, 09 October 2010, was one of these days.

After a brief fight on the jetty the young angler took the strugle to safer grounds where the intention was to land the hooked monster safely and secure some well deserved photographs. After a half an hour the strugle got real tiresome and things become very tense and interesting.

At this stage it was not clear who was going to give up first. Danton was tired and hampered by a back ingery this was one fight he will remember the rest of his life. The day that is burnt into every anglers memmory that will last him a life time.

(to be continued...)