catherins non shark(July 2009)

its a day of the nurses slow nibling bites and chewed up crushed baits and we are backing in the sun with a real lite west breeze when we get another nurse bite on the 12/0 catherine picks it up and cranks like hell to set the hook the fish acts like a nurse but alot heaver i hold onto her harness and can feal the pull of the fish when it makes its short runs but it doesent go far and a litle back and forth we are thining its the king of all nurse sharks she works it closer and into the wade gut wear it just stops and iam thinking its not hung up there are no rocks on this beach so i help by hand lining it and i can feel the head shacks well so i thought it was actuly wing beats of the biggest sting ray i have ever seen caught she works it close enough to leader and the tail is so thick i can actuly get a tail rope on it and it takes four of us to get it on the beach we try to lift it up to see if we can get the hook out no deal we couldent lit it high enough to evan see its mouth so i cut it close take the pics and send it on its way .i got him in the water and he sits there watching me while he gets his breath back and slowly turns and flys away but after an hour hecomes back and stairs at us for about 15 minutes and leaves again i gueses sort of a tank you for letting him go and not filling a couple freezers with shark bait..he measured 11ft nose to tipe of tail and 6ft wing tip to tip