The famed ‘Tesco’s bag’ remains one of the few shore species capable of pulling your rod over. Even a baby bag - a 5lb thornback ray - will test your rod-rest stability as it picks up the bait and flaps like fury over the sea bed. Ray do fight - or should it be described as kiting because it uses ...
Rock fishing doesn't come much better than one angler catching 35 thornback rays in a session on two rods. Fantasy? It did happen... The place was North Clare in Ireland in June 2004 and the angler was Sea Angler magazine's contributing editor Alan Yates. Roll on two years and Alan was back, accompanied by some of his angling pals, to do it all ...
