new guy -hello everyone.
any cobia anglers here ? near shore or bridges? visiting family in area and want to give it a try. suggestions on area’s /times ?
-no hotspots please…
thanks already -F
You are way off the mark for Cobia season if you’re looking to fish for them inshore or nearshore.
come back during the spring.
April into early June is the prime time. Gotta have the dogwoods blooming.
First Cobia last year i believe was caught in late March inshore (that’s pretty early though) I caught my last one in October (very small) last keeper i heard of inshore was caught late September
“Lock em’ down”
I caught a couple last year in March, but that is the first time it’s ever happened to me. They seemed to be early last year.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Cracker Built Custom Boats
Small craft surveying and repair
thanks for the info. how far offshore should we try ? depth/temp. is the factor i think… my partner know of a few wrecks…
thanks -F
In April you don’t have to go offshore. All of the rips in Broad River, plus the bridge will have Cobia.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Cracker Built Custom Boats
Small craft surveying and repair
I feel like an idiot asking this question. But being new to the area I’m not familiar
with the term “rip”. Can somebody please give me a detailed definition of what a RIP is.
So I can get one more clue what the heck I’m doing. Thanks
“rip” = “shoal” = underwater sandbar.
they have funny names down there too.
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Originally posted by AfishianadoI feel like an idiot asking this question. But being new to the area I’m not familiar
with the term “rip”. Can somebody please give me a detailed definition of what a RIP is.
So I can get one more clue what the heck I’m doing. Thanks
Rips are nothing more than humps in the river bottom causing “Rips” to form as the water/current is forced up/down and around these humps during the incoming and outgoing tides.
Hope that helps!
NN
07 23 Key West Twin 115 Yammys
Dang yankees 
If you look at any chart, or Google Earth, of Broad River you will see several shoal areas between the bridge and the ocean. These are underwater sandbars. As the current flows over them, it makes an upwelling “rip” line on the water surface that concentrates bait and fish. The cobia will usually lay on the down current side of the rip, behind the bars, and wait for bait fish to wash over them. Anchor your boat where you can place your baits right in the rip, on the down current side of the bar. The cobia run along the rip line, from the surface to the bottom, so stagger some baits at various depths, from surface to bottom.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Cracker Built Custom Boats
Small craft surveying and repair
As usual, Cracker Larry stepped up in great detail to answer your question. He has been a big help to many on CF in a variety of ways.
Kudos Larry!
NN
Got a bathroom remodel coming up I’m not looking forward to:face_with_head_bandage:…Any help there Cracker???
NN
07 23 Key West Twin 115 Yammys
Thanks very much Larry. That’ll help a lot…I hope!
And thanks to DoubleN and barbawang also
An old local fisherman asked me where I’m from. I told him California.
He looked at me for a few seconds and said…Well at least yer not from New York…I’d have ta tell ya Yankee Go Home…true story:stuck_out_tongue:
Naw it’s not a DY thing…I knew exactly what you all were talking about when you said “rips” but then doing canoeing and white water rafting will also put you situations where rips make all the difference in the world on how the rest of the day is going to go :] Plus you do any river fishing all and you learn about these areas real quick to-doesn’t make any difference if it’s salt or fresh water!
Can someone give me the name of some bait shops in the Beaufort area that carries live eels?
Sorry but I am planning on being one of those “outsiders” that is coming to fish the Broad River spawn this spring.
This has been a “bucket list” trip of mine for many years now!
Any help would be appreciated!
Dave aka HurricaneHunter
Beaufort Boat and Dock Supply usually have eels during cobia season, but I sure don’t like using the nasty slimy things and they don’t produce as well as live (or dead) fish or crab. A nickname for cobia is “crab eater” BTW.
I usually spend an hour or so in the creeks with a cast net gathering live mullet, pinfish, croaker, spots, crabs or whatever I can catch, then head out to the river. There is often large schools of greenies (greenback herring), threadfin shad and menhaden swimming in the rips and you can catch them 6 at a time with a sabiki rig. Keep a sabiki rigged up all the time and cast it to the bait schools as they swim by you. Once I set up to fish and get some baits out, then we put out a couple of small rigs on the bottom to catch whiting, one of my favorite baits. Catfish work pretty good too but there aren’t many cats around anymore. Small blackfish are cobia candy and there are plenty of those also, but they are mostly shorts and illegal, so I’m not suggesting to use those:wink:
Anything kicking, except an eel is OK with me
Capt. Larry Teuton
Cracker Built Custom Boats
Small craft surveying and repair
Actually have caught them at the cans and last year 4 at chas 60 reef pulled one from under shark. most folks do not like ell it reminds them of snakes to much. Most live bait seems to do the trick.
Hey yall, I’ve been thinkin of the trip for a while now. I see April-June is a prime time. My spring break (freshman at james island charter high school? Is the first week of April. Is that a good time to have a reasonable shot at cobia? If it is ill research the crap out of it for recommendations and stuff. I understand you can sit at rips and holes and chum or cruise around with a topwater or bucktail jig?
Hunter P. Hames
11’ Tarpon 100
19’ Sea Fox 125 merc
The first week of April is still early fishing for them inshore…
2007 Scout 221 150 Yamaha 4 stroke