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Old 06-23-2011, 12:07 PM   #1
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Hookup .........! Batrat, No its a............

First off I have to thank you Tagyak and others on the board for tips which definitely speeded up my learning curve since I am a newbie to the exotics. I picked up another yak so I didn’t know which one to bring Prowler or my Stealth I decided to go stealth because the prowler did not have the electronics hooked up yet.



I headed out Tuesday night with two of my buddies at 10:30 pm with a plan to get out there early knock out in the car for a couple hours and launch at 3am. The sleeping part did not go very well tossing and turning antsy to get on the water I ended up getting about 30min of shut eye. At 3am we set up and paddle out to the grounds to meet a fleet of boats and a few kayakers by 6:30 there had to be 40 vessels on the water. None of us seen any action amongst the fleet about 7am my clicker starts screaming zzzzzzZZZZZZZ…….. HOOKUP>>>>>>>! All I could think is please don’t be a batray please no batray…. The fish darts right and haul ass towards my buddies kayak I yell “watch out the fish is under you felix”, then it makes a directional change and darts left, then right man this fish was all over the place, he then swims towards me, and freight trains me straight down trying to dog me on the bottom maybe he saw kelp. I just let him do his thing for a little and I say heck I am using a kelp cutter rig time to put the wood to this bad boy I short pump hard and get the fish to color No Batray…… really it wasn’t a ray was the yellow kind I pull out my gaff stuck the fish in the brain, fish went stiff, game clip GAME OVER… I went to get my hook out I touched the hook with my index finger and the hook popped out the mouth was not even punctured the only thing holing my hook in was the constant pressure. My first LJ exotic and to boot everyone was telling me this was the only fish landed in the whole fleet it was an extremely slow day out on the water. We stick it out till about 1pm to see if my buddies could tie into one of the exotics but no avail for us or anyone else that stayed late.














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Old 06-23-2011, 12:26 PM   #2
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Great fish! Big ass smile!

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Old 06-23-2011, 12:26 PM   #3
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Way to go TTO, when I saw your post about heading out on Wednesday I expected great things :P
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Old 06-23-2011, 12:43 PM   #4
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Awsome very nice! That's a beautiful fish! congratulations!
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Old 06-23-2011, 12:49 PM   #5
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If you hold your head just right I suppose it kinda looks like, no not a bat ray, looks like sashimi to me...nice fish
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Old 06-23-2011, 12:57 PM   #6
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Old 06-23-2011, 04:14 PM   #7
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way to go man. glad to see that you got a nice yellow. hope to see you next time
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Old 06-23-2011, 07:08 PM   #8
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Nice one.. Congrats on the quality fish.

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Old 06-23-2011, 07:18 PM   #9
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Nice fish, and nice meeting you on the water. I was the guy in the hobie nearby wishing I was you!
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Old 06-23-2011, 08:13 PM   #10
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Blood and guts makes me nuts! Nice fish man!
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