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Originally Posted by Jan from Humboldt
Ah! The mighty Mud Marlin also known as the Bat ray, here they can get up to 200 pounds and can give your gear a serious workout.
Fighting a big Mud Marlin is a lot like taking a 4x8 sheet of plywood with a motor on it and an eye bolt dead center and tieing your line to it.
http://www.thefishermans-tips.com/archive/batrays.html
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OK...I understand now. I had a leopard ray take 300 yards of 15 pound line and strip the gears out of my spinning reel this past summer while fishing from a pier on the Outer Banks of North Carolina. Might as well hook your line to the rear end of a bus and try to reel it in. Thanks for the education.
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Chuck
Thanks, Dad, for taking the time to show me how to fish!!
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