In a recent post we showed a pic of a Cobia with a tag that was harvested. Several folks wanted info on the tag. It was tagged in Va and I called in the info and it will be 4/6 weeks before the Va. Dept of Wildlife gets back with me and I will be glad to post the info.
If it got any better I couldn’t stand it.
Good deal Bug!
Wow that sucker did some swimming
Very cool 
Heading to Florida for the winter probably.
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According to Don Hammond of DNR, he has more than once told our fishing club that Cobes migrate east/west off our coast not north/south.
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I’ve always heard that, but never believed it.
Capt. Larry Teuton
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Ive caught a cobia every month of the year bottom fishing on the ledge. I think we have a resident population from 150 to 250’. Almost each one had a belly full of octopus.
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Originally posted by natureboyIve caught a cobia every month of the year bottom fishing on the ledge. I think we have a resident population from 150 to 250’. Almost each one had a belly full of octopus.
I have seen octopus in their a number of fish bellies. But i have seen very few octopus off our coast. Deep water habitat?
Set the trap boys, we going to pass through them again!!
Cool!
Thanks for the update!
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Ive caught a cobia every month of the year bottom fishing on the ledge. I think we have a resident population from 150 to 250'.
I “think” you are correct, and I think our resident group are the ones that move into Port Royal every summer. These seem to migrate in a different pattern from the one’s moving north and south. That’s pure speculation on my part
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I have seen octopus in their a number of fish bellies. But i have seen very few octopus off our coast. Deep water habitat?
Not at all, they are even common inshore. There used to be a commercial inshore octopus fishery in SC.
Capt. Larry Teuton
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Its probably been 20 years or so, but I’ve caught one off one of the piers at MB. Saw a couple others caught too.
Larry, how did they target them back when they fished them commercially?
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I know that South Florida sees a “cobia run” every April where people just cruise up and down the shoreline in center consoles with the half towers just looking to find some cruising by.
As far as Octopus, they can pretty pretty well camouflaged. If you aren’t looking for them, you might pass over quite a few. We got 5 off a wreck last year (in Charleston), and I have seen them as shallow as 15’ of water in the keys. Also, I know of one late commercial fishermen in Charleston who was looking to design an Octopus trap with some early sketches. He must have thought there were enough around to target.
It’s impossible for me to know that though because I am just a “computer programmer”. Larry is the only one who fishes anymore…
You need to loose that attitude.
Yes, there was a large commercial fishery here at one time. The traps are just simple hides like this, usually plastic pipe.
In other parts of the world they use clay pots.
Capt. Larry Teuton
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There are a lot of octopus off charleston. just very hard to find on live bottom or normal wrecks because they can get deep inside the structure and blend in so well. On places where they cant get deep in the structure like a piece of dredge pipe on the bottom you find octopus in their holes all over.
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We used to spearfish a lot at the old Savannah Light Tower before it got ran over by a container ship. Hard to figure that, it was only 90’ tall with lights, horns and RDF beacon. Anyway the bottom was covered with decades of old battery casings the CG would throw overboard when replacing batteries, and every battery case on the bottom would be packed with octopi.
Capt. Larry Teuton
Cracker Built Custom Boats
“Ships are the nearest things to dreams that hands have ever made.” -Robert N. Rose
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Originally posted by Scoutin 4 Goodiesquote:
Originally posted by natureboyIve caught a cobia every month of the year bottom fishing on the ledge. I think we have a resident population from 150 to 250’. Almost each one had a belly full of octopus.
I have seen octopus in their a number of fish bellies. But i have seen very few octopus off our coast. Deep water habitat?
Set the trap boys, we going to pass through them again!!
Scott, they’re mostly nocturnal. When we were doing a lot of night diving last year we saw tons of them. They’re here in numbers, we just don’t see them. African Pomps also tend to have them in their bellies. Putting two and two together tells me that the fish with the octopi in their stomachs feed at night (or at least fed the night before they were caught/killed.)
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I’ve caught a few octopus on rod and reel. They will ride a good ways stuck to the side of the boat 
cobia candy…
Most of the one’s I’ve caught have been clinging to the bank sinker and not hooked.
Can’t say that i’ve ever seen one while diving, but then again I don’t dive at night and I’m not really looking for them either.
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