Trailered down to Beaufort on Wednesday, we swung by Beaufort Boat and Dock to pick up some eels/chum and made our way into the broad about 9am or so. Planned on fishing the bridge but was just too crowded so headed down river to get away from the crowd and found some structure and anchored up with just 3 boats within sight. Saw one Cobia caught from an anchored boat. Had 4 Conventional Rods with Penn senators rigged various delectable options of live eels, rigged squid, and live bait fish. Despite all the planning gone into my setup we had a cobia hit my medium action ugly stick I was using to catch bait with. He hit about a 1 inch strip of squid fished on a #4 hook right next to the chum bag on the bottom. I heard that Cobia can get a little nasty when they hit the deck so my pregnant wife jumped up on the front live well and got some pretty cool pictures but I can’t get them off of my camera at the moment. He ended up being 36" fork length, he coughed up all kinds of brown crabs and shrimp. Later we saw some Spanish jumping and a casted a white bucktail in their direction was burning it back and had a smaller cobia chase it to the boat but couldn’t get him to bite and he didn’t stick around. we ended up fishing dead high to dead low tide.
We had so much fun that we went back Thursday. Woke up to eels slithering across my driveway, to those that haven’t fished with eels these things are amazing, picked them up put them back in the bucket, I had the same 2 eels on the hook for 6 hours, after I took them off and they swam right away. There were lots of people on the water Thursday, it was glassy and a lot of people were sight fishing. We putted down to the same spot we didn’t see any on the surface but couldn’t get really high up to get a visual either. We saw one cobia caught by sight fisherman, fished most of the falling tide again. We got to see a pretty massive sea turtle but ended up with only a small shark on Thursday.
The following pics were taken with our cell phones, I’ll try to g