Wednesday’s forecast was looking too sweet to sit onshore so after some offshore plans whet bust I put together the reefin gear and loaded the boat. I met riverrunner early in the morning and arrived at shem creek to a beautiful morning. The plan was set in action as soon as I loaded the livewell with cobia candy (large menhaeden) near the Ben Sawyer bridge. We spent some time at the jetties looking for jellys but only found one or two so I says screw it we got shrump! Arrived at the first reef on the agenda and not a boat in sight:smiley:. I did the one legged pirate dance on a chum bag of bait untill it was a right then deployed it and a pair of driftlines on the baitrunners. Ten mins later while riging our spade lines the baitrunner starts to sing and does not stop until the 7/0 owner was driven home. After a nice run and fight we bring my first king of the year to the boat where he was met by a cuda before he could be boated. By the time I got the rod back out the spades came up briefly and showed us a little action. The drift rod was smokin all morning between the kings cudas and sharks. I turned my back to the wind to light a smoke just in time to see a brownie coming streaking through the chum on a mission looking left and right for his next meal. I’ve seen lots of cobia but never one so aggressive as this one came up the chum line. I was quickly hooked up after a quick pitch with a live menhaeden. The cudas were circling my fish like a pack of wolves and I about lost all control when he was missed by the gaff 4 times:angry: I finally grabed the gaff and gave up the rod to get the fish in the boat. There must have been 30 cudas that just hung around in a couple schools near the boat so we were ready to move on. We jigged up some more bait on the bouy and went sight fishing on every bouy from the C bouy to the rocks catching many cudas and breaking off another beter cobia on a bouy chain.Stoped at ther nearshore on the way in just for a quick look around but no dice there. It was a reel fun day on the pond today
Very Nice Dan. Looks like you’ll be grillin up some brownie filets for a while.
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Thanks Tommy. I have plenty of cobia already and my buddy was real happy when I told him to keep all the fish because my freezer is full and needs to get empty before August 15.
Good job from the Mouse Man. Check your e-mail.
i was told by dnr that keeping a piece of a fish was not legal unless the piece exceeded the minimum size limit.
sounds like a fun day. congrats
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Good job Capt…We were out on the reef on the 28th. Had the same problem with those cudas, only they snatched our king off the hook. Lost a few spades to those critters too. Never could hook up on a brownie. Oh well maybe next time. Take care!
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Nice job Capt,any recipes you would like to share on the cobia.
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Did you jig up any cigar minnows
Looks like a 35 lb cobia… nice work
Polly Wanna…
Islander the grill is the way to go.
Backlash we jigged up mostly sardines,greenbacks,pinfish and a few cigar minnows.
Cracker- Hah! I like your intronet scales but the fish was much lighter although it looks similar to some of the 30 and 35lb cobia that have been shown lately. funny stuff there
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Originally posted by CaptDanIslander the grill is the way to go.
Backlash we jigged up mostly sardines,greenbacks,pinfish and a few cigar minnows.
Cracker- Hah! I like your intronet scales but the fish was much lighter although it looks similar to some of the 30 and 35lb cobia that have been shown lately. funny stuff there
Glad we are on the same page… good haul for what you were doing and I am sure you had fun… that is what it is all about…
Polly Wanna…
Capt nice report and fish. Is the ole Phillip that went with you?
From reds to marlin you got it.
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