I fished Sullivan?s Island around the Dunes club with several buddies while the ladies caught some rays on the beach. Walked out in the surf and fished a nice drop off during falling tide. Caught several baby sharks on frozen shrimp and cut mullet. We also managed to catch 8-10 small whiting and 6-8 hungry blues. My buddies are new to surf fishing and they have really fell in love with it. While we were fishing in the surf, we would notice several groups of 3-5 large rays swimming about 15 feet away. Pretty neat!
Mr Brown, sounds like you had a good day always fun to get out with the boys and wet a few lines- its my favorite thing to do. Ive experianced something similar . Couple years ago fishing the beach I kept noticing groups of rays pushing right up to beach like squadrons of airplanes working in tandem they came wave after wave Im guessing they were working together like cattle dogs corralling fish to eat. You can also see videos of killer whales and dolphins working together as well. When people ask me do sharks come in close to shore I refer them to this with killer whales actually pulling seals off the beach and slipping back into the water. The fish are smarter and work together more than people realize, hell whales talk to each other. Good day sir-and good luck out there.
Uh, whales are not fish and rays don’t take live fish usually. A rays mouth is under the head and designed to take crustaceans or other things laying on the bottom.
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I admit, I did think after posting rays are bottom feeders and this debunked my theory- you are correct sir, I apologize , but cool story non the less and I should have called the dolphins and whales mammals not fish I was just generalizing thank you for correcting me -but I did say I was just guessing this was what they were doing not stating a fact . Just trying to share a cool experience with others the rays came in wave after wave and turned just before reaching the sand, thought it was neat and odd what do you think they were doing Mr. Sulcataman? Strange-but true story.
Sounds awesome man. I’ve caught a few of those over 6’ and they put up a hell of a fight. I had one guy tell me big rays didn’t live in Charleston anymore as I was fighting a big ray in front of him. 15 minutes later he was eating crow.
With all the rays I’ve caught I’m sure I’ve caught some on live bait, immobile but live. They may have just been surfing!
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Several weeks ago while riding over the Ravenel bridge into Mt. Pleasant, I saw a huge pod of rays. It had to been 10-15 of them, big and small. Thanks for the story, RBR.
I saw them while fishing the mt pleasant pier I thought i was seeing things until the guy next to me ask me did you see that must have been at least a dozen of them
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