Dodging the Rain Showers, Cobia Style

8.6.10
We were greeted by showers wandering our beautiful and, thankfully, oil free water.

We knew we would need to keep our eyes and ears open as a storm was a few miles off to the east.  It was an awesome sight as our goal was to hit 2 flat for trout and bait, hit 3 cobia poles and finally try and duplicate yesterday's tarpon catch.






As we layed the boat down on 2 flat we could see the water was clean and clear.  The trout were biting, as well as bluefish, lady fish, shark and pinfish.

Charlotte and Nancy were bringing trout to the boat side as quickly as they could get there lines in the water.  I also caught a nice 18" fish on a bomber red and white jerk bait.  Hunter was loading the live well with pinfish.  I think the term, "Chinese fire drill" is apt for this hour of fishing.




We began our cobia run starting a 2 marker with no results.  The pole has come up empty the last few times we tried to lure a cobe to the boat.

The tripod has been a cobia hotspot the last few trips.

Hunter started lobbing his pinfish towards the tripod.  The second lob and it was on!

Soon the 15 lb. cobia was being hoisted by Hunter.

He rebaited and lobbed the pinfish towards the tripod again, and handed the rod to Charlotte.  She misfired the first three times, but the cobia was persistent and wanted permission to come aboard.  The 4 lber. was a good beginner cobia for her.

We ran back to the ramp as clouds were closing in.  After waiting for the line of showers to clear, we headed down to Mud Cove to look for the big tarps.  Unfortunately, they did not let Charlotte could not replicate her performance yesterday, so we left them rolling in the LY spawn!